Sentence examples for measures have produced from inspiring English sources

Ballot measures have produced a wave of ambitious progressive reforms in recent years, from legalizing marijuana to expanding voting rights to granting paid family leave.

These measures have produced some success: Beijing's air quality has improved, and the city claims it achieved 234 blue sky days in 2005.

They argued that while American and European sanctions have not yet targeted wide parts of the Russian economy, they have sent a message to international businesses, and that just the threat of broader measures has produced a chilling effect.

A group of experts appointed by Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to propose specific measures has produced a detailed report that includes an unusually candid and incisive analysis of the United Nations's problems as well as concrete recommendations for solving them.

That second step has produced a real measure of consensus around the plans set out in this consultation but much less on the rest of the Law Commission's scheme.

Mr. Papandreou's Socialist Party has been working to shore up its tenuous political position in the face of widespread anger in Greece over strict austerity measures that have produced job losses and cuts to wages and pensions.

By some measures, those initiatives have produced results, among them Tuesday's agreement in principle between commercial banks and Mexico on the banks' half of a $12 billion loan agreement for the country.

We also know that counter-terrorism measures at home have produced mixed results.

Inconsistency in selecting cell subpopulations or methods with different sensitivity in expressing or measuring hGRα might have produced such opposing results.

Attempts to measure unofficial payments have produced a wide range of results across a number of countries.

This area is not without controversy, however, since various measures of lipid content have produced quite distinct results.