Sentence examples for measure close to from inspiring English sources

Fed officials would like to see this measure close to 2 percent.

Among schools where more than 30% of pupils are disadvantaged, King Solomon academy in central London comes first, with 93% of disadvantaged children passing the headline measure, close to the 95% rate for all pupils.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to extend new federal protections to people who are victims of violent crime because of their sex or sexual orientation, bringing the measure close to reality after years of fierce debate.

The measure, close to one drafted by Representative Sherwood Boehlert, Republican of New York and chairman of the Science Committee, would ensure that those who participate in a demonstration project could meet strict emissions criteria.

Representatives Christopher Shays and Martin T. Meehan are trying to pass a measure close to one approved by the Senate in April that has at its heart a ban on the unrestricted contributions to national political parties by corporations, unions and individuals that grew to nearly $500 million in the past election.

The Democratic strategy is to try to hold the underlying measure close to Mr. Bush's bottom line number — $108 billion in Pentagon money for the current year, $70 billion through the first months of 2009 — and essentially dare him to veto it over added veterans spending and the unemployment aid.

He did the same thing on patients' rights, using personal diplomacy to produce a measure closer to his liking than the Senate bill and sparing himself the embarrassment of having to veto a popular measure.

To obtain a proximity measure closer to face-to-face interactions, we set T=30 min (lower threshold w.r.t. literature [11]).

While Normalized RMSE is perhaps the measure closest to the subjective perception, we favor also the other two measures of this group as they are relatively simple and do not require calculation of the warped (rendered) image.

We propose methods to transform an ordinal measure into a measure closer to this ideal.

We used the GHb measure closest to 12 months after randomization and no earlier than 9 months or later than 15 months after randomization.