Sentence examples for measures setting from inspiring English sources

Labor and the Greens oppose the measures, setting up the possibility of the bill failing in the Senate.

Not according to Lugar's spokesman Andy Fisher who told the Associated Press that "the speech does not mean Lugar would switch his vote on the war or embrace Democratic measures setting a deadline for troop withdrawals".

The array of paradoxes reached a climax late last month after the Socialist president proposed a raft of benefit reduction measures, setting off an uprising of police officers that nearly took his life.

meeting focused on the risks that the United States, the world's largest economy, might face if the Obama administration and Congress cannot agree on deficit reduction measures, setting off legally mandated tax increases and federal spending cuts early next year.

He points out that Paris is also taking concrete measures, setting up a "welcome office" in the city to help new arrivals fit in and tweaking the rules of "inpatriate status" – France's answer to non-dom status – by extending tax advantages for high-earners from five years to eight years.

Mr. Davies, while saying he did not "want to be a martyr," decided to challenge the indictment with a combination of legal and public-relations measures, setting up a Web site devoted to his case and hiring Chris Lehane, a hard-hitting political consultant and former senior aide in Bill Clinton's White House.

Owing to outcome measures utilising different measurement tools, there were no principle summary measures set.

These reactionary measures set back the growth of education.

That assessment did not however consider the offsetting benefits of the measures set out in my Air Quality Strategy.

Then, after a few measures, set another voice to work, singing the same theme, perhaps at a different pitch; then a third, or a fourth, or a fifth.

Strict measures, set out in the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act of 2006, aim to stamp out any attempts at ambush marketing.