Sentence examples for limit raising from inspiring English sources

Mr. Geithner, 49, said a month ago that he would decide on his future after the administration and Congress reached a deal to increase the nation's debt limit, raising the possibility that he would step down.

In 2011, federal borrowing costs climbed as congressional Republicans refused for a time to increase the federal government's statutory borrowing limit, raising doubts about the government's ability to repay its debts.

Mr. Rübig, a member of Parliament from Austria who co-sponsored the 2009 roaming regulation, said he expected lawmakers to either push for a retail cap or significantly adjust the existing wholesale limit, raising the 80 cent fee to cover not one megabyte, but one gigabyte, of downloaded information.

They may insist that any budget bill must end Obamacare (though Mr Cruz has said he might settle for repealing bits of it), or refuse to raise the statutory debt limit, raising the spectre of arbitrary cuts to federal payments or default on the national debt.

Brady Dennis of The Washington Post wrote a nice summary of this event earlier this month: Congress had been playing a game of chicken with the debt limit, raising it to $830 billion — compared with today's $14.3 trillion — only after Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal warned that the country was hours away from the first default in its history.

In an interview with CBS News, Mr. Obama said he "cannot guarantee" that the government can pay benefits next month to Social Security recipients, veterans and the disabled if Congress does not increase the federal debt limit, raising the political stakes even as Republicans hardened their opposition to him.

The commission wants the compensation limit raised to $7,000.

Using all your available credit makes you look risky; either borrow less or have your limit raised.

President Bush said today that he would limit raises for 1.8 million federal workers to 2percentt next year to avoid a further squeeze on the budget.

Mr. Obama said consistently through the standoff that he was willing to have a wide-ranging budget negotiation once the government was reopened and the debt limit raised.

As discussed in [32], this limit raises serious difficulties.