Sentence examples for measures chiefly from inspiring English sources

Several coalition legislators have indicated that they object to certain measures — chiefly wage cuts — and may vote against them but it would take a huge backbench rebellion for the vote to fail as the two largest parties have 236 seats in the 300-member house.

The lenders are insisting that a €13.5 billion package of austerity measures — chiefly cuts to pensions, civil servants' salaries and social benefits — must be completed to secure the release of a €31.5 billion tranche of rescue funding without which the country faces default in the middle of next month.

Greece's creditors have demanded that Mr. Papandreou secure a broad political consensus on a number of austerity measures — chiefly tax increases, cuts in public spending and privatization of state assets — that are to be voted on in Parliament by the end of this month.

In contrast a small number of participants indicated they had experienced some negative effects from completing the outcome measures, chiefly that reading and rating their level of nausea and vomiting at a time when they were feeling nauseous had at times worsened their experience.

But over time, attorneys and auditors came to see their practices not as independent firms that strengthen the integrity of capitalism, but as businesses measured chiefly by the earnings of their partners.

On the contrary, success relies on the routine of inspections and the slow accumulation of confidence; and the deal will be measured chiefly on whether it puts a bomb out of reach.

Have Sept. 11 and the bitter diplomatic clashes of the past three years so changed Mr. Bush's mental map of American alliances that every nation will be measured chiefly by whether it embraces his strategy against terrorism, and sign on to the small, reluctant coalition in Iraq?

And social activity is measured chiefly by collecting snippets of sound that indicate that the user is talking to someone, either in person or over the phone.Again, no actual words are stored, simply features of human speech, which the app can distinguish from background noise such as music or traffic.

This is the most important measure, chiefly because the China's energy market has experienced a lack of more aggressive energy efficiency policies and more vigorous policy actions for decades.

The whole point of the speech - well, one of the whole points - was that the Lib Dems are afraid they are going to be attacked by the government for not signing up to all Charles Clarke's measures against terrorism, chiefly banging people up for "glorifying" terrorism, and the three months' jail without charge.

This has, during 1991/92, been used in South Africa as one of the measures to control Trypanosomosis, chiefly transmitted by G.brevipalpis, in Kwazulu.