Sentence examples for measures means that from inspiring English sources

A mix of tax rises and the expiry of older stimulus measures means that the federal budget for 2014 will remain a drag on the economy.

In addition to approaching brinkmanship, moving to one-day temporary spending measures means that lawmakers must stay in Washington to pass a new stopgap bill each day while negotiations between Congress and the White House take place.

However, environment minister Greg Hunt has pointed out that the decline in Australian manufacturing and energy efficiency measures means that the 5% task is falling, to around 421m tonnes of abated greenhouse gas by 2020.

We have been open and honest throughout the process; it is important that Ofsted could see where we are making good progress but also what our weaknesses are". Being put into special measures means that the school has a number of urgent actions to undertake which will be closely monitored by Ofsted.

Providing patients who have no hope for recovery with life-prolonging measures means that they are financially supported by somebody else.

The imprecision and bias associated with self-report measures means that their ability to accurately assess total activity, as well as PA intensity and SED-time, is limited.

Our findings, taken together with previous research, show clearly that the large individual and population changes in area socioeconomic measures mean that area effects on health need to be studied over the life course, not just cross-sectionally.

Routine infection prevention and control measures mean that this should be a preventable 'never event'.

New security measures meant that Parisians couldn't use a familiar performance form — the street protest — to share their views.

Other measures mean that anyone relying on tax credits or child benefit is affected in one way or another.

Today's measures mean that 100,000 children will leave poverty, doing no more than reversing last year's deterioration".