Sentence examples for measure raises from inspiring English sources

The emergency measure raises approximately €3bn a year - vital to revenues.

Margaret Stock, an associate professor of national security at the United States Military Academy, who is writing a paper on the driver's license issue, said that the new measure raises other, unanticipated security risks.

Further expanding the number of eligible people, the measure raises the income limits for those claiming the credit to $125,000 a year for individuals and $225,000 for couples, up from $75,000 and $150,000.

One measure raises income taxes on individuals who earn more than $125,000 and on couples who earn more than $250,000, the other raises taxes and fees on most businesses.

By allowing counties that can afford more expensive touch-screen technology to choose that system over less reliable optical scanners, the measure raises questions of equal protection under the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore that cited disparities in counting methods.

First, whenever the measure raises private-sector output in Spain, it does so for the rest of EMU, too.

Two years ago, voters passed a measure raising the price of cigarettes by 50 cents a pack, with a tax earmarked for education.

Thursday, the Senate added a measure raising the Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals in rural areas.

Despite warnings from business owners that additional labor costs could force them to close, a measure raising the minimum wage by $2 in the next two years has advanced.

A report in the Australian Financial Review speculates that the economic statement will contain a deposit insurance levy as recommended by the Council of Financial Regulators - a measure raising billions.

A21 Temporary Spending Bills The House approved a three-week stopgap spending measure, raising the possibility that Congress's lame duck session would last into next month.