Sentence examples for measures that lay from inspiring English sources

Any solution that makes it to his desk will now surely include austerity measures that lay off thousands of state employees (10,000 got pink slips this week) and stop public-works projects.(Photo credit: AFP).

WHEN President Jacques Chirac unexpectedly retained Jean-Pierre Raffarin as his prime minister, despite this year's dismal round of election results, savvy voters felt a game was being played: Mr Raffarin's role was to take the rap for some tough measures that lay ahead.

On this day in 1875, representatives from 17 nations signed the Meter Convention, establishing a global process for setting the uniform measures that help lay the foundation for commerce, industry and science advances in the 20th century.

For each of the six similarity measures, the AIDs that lie outside the region were extracted and are henceforth defined as "outliers".

That is a measure of the troubles that lie ahead for us.

Motif fingerprints capture the statistics of local connection patterns, while measures of centrality identify regions that lie on many of the shortest paths between parts of the network.

Empirical networks often resemble small-world characteristics and, indeed, graph measures will probably have values that lie somewhere between those of a lattice and random network.

This method looks for edges with the highest "betweenness," where betweenness is a measure that favors edges that lie between communities and disfavors edges that lie inside communities.

An administration official, who was granted anonymity to speak because the plan had not been formally announced, said it would lay out measures that businesses and agencies should take to minimize spread of a virus.

It includes a provision to allow coup-plotters to be tried by civilian rather than military courts, and a rule that says civilians can no longer be tried by the army, except in times of war.Osman Can, a former rapporteur of the constitutional court, argues that the key to demilitarisation lies in measures that alter the structure of the judiciary.

This implies that incentivising smallholders to incur transaction costs to reach remunerative markets lies in measures that would increase yield (as discussed already), well-functioning farmer associations and offering remunerative prices for produce.