Sentence examples for measures on the table from inspiring English sources

And as usual, there was no shortage of eccentric measures on the table.

If this warning seems apocalyptic, that's only because most Americans are under the impression that the measures on the table are centrist compromises that would protect everyone's interests.

On that day, according to the package of measures on the table in Brussels, Europe will stop importing oil from Iran, about a fifth of the country's total exports.

The official said that the ministers had not provided an estimate of the value of the privatization proceeds, but that they believed the measures on the table were worth significantly more than 1 billion a year.

Measures on the table to fill those holes, or already in place, range from the macro (a cut of 25percentt in grants to local governments in Minnesota) to the micro (elimination of staffing at metal detectors in local courthouses in Maine).

With biro marks on his shirt, he said he thought the set of measures on the table amounted to a reduction to just below 50 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon levels - if left unchecked there would be 55 Gt of carbon in the atmosphere by 2020.

The voluntary measures put on the table at Paris by over 100 nations are a welcome step, but unless there are strong measures to reduce emissions beyond 2030, global emissions would remain at a high level, practically guaranteeing that young people inherit a climate running out of their control.

Mr Montebourg is said to want to quit the government so as to prepare his own political future.Such constraints will make it hard to press ahead even with the measures already on the table.

At the same time, it could harm the most important environmental measure currently on the table in Washington: a troubled Senate bill that might, for the first time, put a price on American emissions of carbon dioxide.

The measure now on the table gives the new interim government the right to order the multinational force to leave and makes it clear that the mandate of the force would expire in January 2006, when a fully elected full-term Iraqi government is expected to take power.

"You would want to keep the option of more radical measures like quotas on the table as a last resort.