Sentence examples for measures like one from inspiring English sources

And he voted against all gun-control legislation, including measures like one to regulate what are known as cop-killer bullets that were supported by all but a handful of lawmakers from both parties.

Mr. Kerry has been an activist chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations since 2009, fashioning bipartisan support for measures like one that shifted U.S. aid to Pakistan from predominantly military support to include more civil assistance.

He has voted against his party on important symbolic measures, like one that would strip financing from Planned Parenthood, and those most minor, like a measure to amend the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act to extend its termination date.

While meetings of the groups' committees and provincial delegations can be freewheeling, their formal agendas are largely free of controversy, including measures like one requiring product makers to eliminate waste in their packaging.

They also want Senate Democrats to come up with a measure like one already passed by the House that would replace the large-scale budget cuts for the Pentagon that are scheduled to take effect with other trims on Dec. 31.

Perhaps this is why legislators in at least five states have introduced bills that carry their message and several more are working on ballot measures like the one in Colorado.

Many of those who cry loudest about measures like the one Bloomberg has proposed are probably sick, too: hooked on high fat, high sodium and high sugar diets who don't want their "drug" taken away.

spoke out on Texas' controversial abortion law, telling MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that measures like the one in Texas put the "discretion of a woman to make judgments" at risk.

Measures like this one should be central to any renewed Millennium Development Goal strategy.

Under the Clean Air Act, that gave it the authority to issue regulatory measures like the one announced Thursday.

But without an agreement to spend beyond the $600 billion ceiling, other measures, like the one financing the Department of Housing and Urban Development, may be shortchanged.