Sentence examples for measure were not from inspiring English sources

Some opponents of the New Jersey measure were not sure if their effort was enough.

Democratic lawmakers in both the House and Senate, however, said this week that the prospects for final passage of any privacy measure were not strong.

But his two most cherished projects, massive income tax cuts and a sweeping civil rights measure, were not passed until after his death.

"We thought — correctly I think — that the only way the American people would know a great debate was going on was if the measure were not bipartisan," McConnell told The Atlantic, in 2011, speaking about his opposition to Obamacare.

But supporters of the measure were not prepared for the vehement opposition of two powerful governments — Turkey, the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, which historians say conducted the genocide, and the United States, which needs Turkey's help in Iraq.

Nicholson says mortality rates as a crude measure were not part of the way anyone measured the NHS at the time, because they "begged more questions than they answered".

Senators who had carefully shepherded the measure weren't pleased.

That measure was not adopted.

The China trade measure is not Nafta.

The measure is not likely to be taken up again.

But Phillips says a stop-gap measure is not enough.