Sentence examples for measure representative from inspiring English sources

Only one member rose to oppose the measure: Representative Barbara Lee, Democrat of Oakland.

The companies are subjected to "legalized extortion," said one sponsor of the measure, Representative Lamar Smith, Republican of Texas.

After the vote, she said, the subcommittee chairman responsible for the measure, Representative Ralph Regula, Republican of Ohio, informed her and others who voted no that their earmarks would be denied.

When asked if Mr. Gephardt was breaking his pledge not to lobby actively against the measure, Representative Robert T. Matsui of California, a Democratic vote-counter in favor of the bill, said, "No, not yet".

But the sponsor of a competing measure, Representative Heather A. Wilson, Republican of New Mexico, would give individuals a right to sue for $500 per unwanted e-mail advertisement if senders ignored requests to stop sending the advertisements.

"I don't have 600 lobbyists, but I've got charts and I've got facts," said a lead sponsor of the measure, Representative Gil Gutknecht, Republican of Minnesota, pointing to a chart that showed the price disparities.

And lacking any tax-related measures, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the House minority whip, told the group he was not certain he could corral a single Democratic vote for the plan, officials said.

"We should not wait for an American meltdown to beef up American nuclear safety measures," Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, who advocates greater reliance on casks, said after the accident in March in Japan.

Its main objective is to provide guidance on how to determine an economically optimal set of measures representative of different safety layers by means of cost-benefit analysis.

We compute a set of 12 or 25 rotationally invariant measures representative of the underlying white matter for the rank-4 or rank-6 spherical harmonics (SHs) representation of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) profile, respectively.

In this large pragmatic clinical observational study, each mechanism in this pathogenic pathway was tested by measuring representative factors (IFN-γ, viral load, Substance P and IL-9) in the respiratory secretions collected from infants admitted to hospital.