Sentence examples for measures succeeded from inspiring English sources

In the short run his economic measures succeeded.

Those measures succeeded at first, resulting in a nationwide bout of temperance that even increased life expectancy.

Colorado and Washington state, where ballot measures succeeded in 2012, were the first, followed by Oregon, Alaska and DC.

Tighter gun control measures succeeded in Oregon and Colorado, where voters approved by comfortable margins initiatives requiring background checks of all buyers at gun shows.

Since the young and non-white are America's future, that suggests that demography favours the abolitionists.Earlier this month a vote to repeal the death penalty narrowly failed in New Hampshire, but similar measures succeeded in six states between 2007 and 2013, reducing the number of capital-punishment states to 32.

When diligently followed, as they were on the Malay peninsula and during the construction of the Panama Canal, those measures succeeded in controlling the disease.

Most of the time, such measures succeed in maintaining Saltaire as the refuge its residents want it to be.

If these measures succeed merely in making people consume more, running to the malls and making the already-negative personal saving rate even more negative, they won't restore faith in the financial markets.

(Though it also risks putting too much power on one person's shoulders).But even if such measures succeed they are unlikely to reverse the tide of history that has swept away so many of councils' powers.

Figures published by the US Environmental Protection Agency suggest that on average each barrel of oil burned emits 0.43 tonnes of carbon dioxide, suggesting that if the UK budget measures succeed in producing an extra 120m barrels of oil in the next five years, these will add 50m tonnes of carbon dioxide to the UK's emissions, if burned domestically.

RGGI states are also considering setting a reserve when they auction permits.But even if these measures succeed, it remains true that RGGI covers a relatively small area in which unusual weather, the refurbishment of a few big power stations or the opening of a new transmission line for imported power could move the whole market.