Sentence examples for measures held from inspiring English sources
Democratic members of Congress, unable to get the House of Representatives to debate gun-control measures, held a sit-in, live-streamed on Periscope.
The highest ranked company was British American Tobacco (BAT), whose top score on governance measures held up against a relatively low perception ranking of 42.
Similar measures held bipartisan appeal not so long ago: in 2001, Senator Dick Durbin, of Illinois, a Democrat, and Senator Orrin Hatch, of Utah, a Republican, jointly proposed a path to citizenship, in a bill called the DREAM Act.
The warning also heightened concerns about profitability in the retail sector in Britain and across Europe as consumers, fearful of rising unemployment and government austerity measures, held back on purchases.
Although the $18bn of savings measures held up in the Senate has been reduced by a $6.3bn savings deal between the government and opposition, the shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, has ruled out accepting the remaining $12bn which he said were unfair.
We've seen it before with communicable diseases -- improvements in sanitation, nutrition, for example, where these preventive public health measures held back diseases as cures were being discovered.
Now there are "digital encryption" anti-piracy measures holding up promising new media formats, too.
When he was appointed after the conservative Berlusconi government fell under intense financial and market pressures, his mandate was to form a nonpartisan cabinet of experts, pass austerity measures, hold elections, hand off to the winner and step back.
These measures hold great promise for the rational design of the perturbation protocols for cell reprogramming in regenerative medicine.
Hemodynamic, echocardiographic, neurohormone, and exercise measures hold some promise as potential surrogate end points for clinical trials of therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Even if individual wrongdoers are further alienated by punitive measures, holding them accountable may be productive of a broader reconciliation among victims and other members of the community, as well as among future generations.
