Sentence examples for limit standoff from inspiring English sources

With Republicans protesting that the Senate should be concentrating on the debt limit standoff this week, Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, on Tuesday conceded the point and abruptly called off a planned debate on Libya.

The numbers are a little stale – they were collected in mid-September, well before the government shutdown began on Oct. 1 and the ensuing budget battle and debt limit standoff dominated the headlines.

During the 2011 debt limit standoff, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner publicly suggested invoking the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states that, "The validity of the public debt... shall not be questioned".

Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich)., argued that the main purpose of the bill was to satisfy members of the tea party and to offer the GOP political cover in a potential debt limit standoff.

Those so-called sequester reductions — which were agreed to after a 2011 debt-limit standoff between Obama and House Republicans — have been the GOP's greatest victory in the budget battles.

During the last debt-limit standoff in 2011, when default was just threatened, the S&P 500 index lost 3percentt, and the deadlock led to a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating to AA-plus from AAA.

Occasionally Sheadon's father, Jeremy O'Day, who sets concrete with the local laborers' union, would hoist him on his shoulders so he could see what was going on outside the chamber of the House of Representatives, where Republican and Democratic lawmakers are in a standoff over limits to public and private collective bargaining rights, among a host of other things.

The comparison includes flame size, lean limits, and when pertinent, standoff distances, all for two different reaction mechanisms.

Re "G.O.P. Pledges New Standoff on Debt Limit" (front page, May 16) and "Mr. Boehner and the Debt" (editorial, May 16): Speaker John A. Boehner and the Republican Party continue to attempt to solve federal budgetary problems through more spending cuts with no tax increases under consideration.

A comparison of the modeling and experimental results in terms of flame standoff distance, stability limit conditions and species yields show excellent agreement across a broad range of equivalence ratios and preheat temperatures.

But records and interviews show that they rarely do so, making the state a useful laboratory for examining the consequences, as well as the politics, of this standoff over the limits of Second Amendment rights.