Sentence examples for measure extend from inspiring English sources

Nor, Democrats said, would the measure extend the nation's borrowing limit, which the Treasury will hit early in 2013.

And New Yorkers still do not know whether lawmakers will revise the oft-criticized Rockefeller drug laws, raise the minimum wage, approve a gay rights measure, extend unemployment insurance, require clergy members to report allegations of child abuse.

In the maximal feature set, indicators for previous use of a drug and the baseline VL measure extend this list.

The Van Hollen-Schumer measure extends beyond disclosure.

Carter's special assistant, and the measure extending by 3 yrs.

One victory for that approach came last week at the White House, where President Obama signed a measure extending subsidized health insurance to an additional four million children.

The measure extends, for at least six years, many of the broad new surveillance powers that Congress hastily approved last August just before its summer recess.

Another measure extends the deadline for a report from a task force on recycling to Feb. 21; the original deadline was Dec. 15.

The House on Wednesday easily passed the 10th stop-gap measure extending existing transportation law, this time through September — adding the Keystone XL Pipeline into the mix.

The Senate today abandoned its effort to pass a plan to boost the economy, but then briefly put aside partisan recriminations to approve a narrow measure extending unemployment benefits for 13 weeks beyond the current 26-week limit.

(3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5) this Measure extends to the whole of the Provinces of Canterbury and York except the Channel Islands and the Isle of 25 Man.