Sentence examples for measures have expanded from inspiring English sources

As resuscitative measures have expanded, the need for options to improve neurologic function after CA is of paramount importance.

By contrast, some measures have expanded the scope of medical care-related literacy; they include the following: the Health Activity Literacy Scale; the Demographic Assessment of Health Literacy; the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy; the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey; and the Health Literacy Assessment Using Talking Touchscreen Technology [ 22– 27].

The measure would have expanded background checks for firearms purchases at gun shows and on the Internet.

The background check measure would have expanded the current check system to cover sales of weapons on the Internet and at gun shows.

Since 2007, lawmakers have proposed more than a half-dozen measures that would have expanded access to discovery.

Voters seemed to agree with the governor in several other of the state's 16 ballot initiatives, voting against two measures that would have expanded gambling in the state.

Two of those measures also would have expanded background checks to more gun sales.

President Obama hadn't finished his first sentence on Wednesday when the Fox News Channel cut away from his Rose Garden remarks about the Senate's defeat of a measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers.

A day after the Senate defeated a gun control measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Thursday sharply criticized the lawmakers who voted against it.

Two weeks after a bipartisan measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers was defeated in the Senate, nearly 9 in 10 of those surveyed said they favored background checks on all gun buyers, and 6 in 10 said they were disappointed or angry with the vote.

Voters in Arizona also rejected a ballot measure that would have expanded the state's education voucher program.