Sentence examples for measures that put from inspiring English sources

"Quite frankly, a lot of these are half-baked measures that put the watershed at risk".

Argentina and Mexico have introduced measures that put some of the burden on investors.

"Right now we need measures that put money into the economy and immediately create jobs without adding to the deficit over the long term.

Some Western investors hope Mr Modi, the son of a tea-stall owner, will be India's Margaret Thatcher, a populist reformer who forces through measures that put the economy on a higher growth path.

Hungary says it will oppose energy measures that put "a different burden on the Member States without full consideration of their economic situation," but hints that with enough compensation it would accept a 40% reduction target.And so it goes.

As leader of a state with 3.5 million noncitizens who are legal permanent residents, Mr. Brown in recent weeks had signed into law numerous measures that put California at the vanguard of expanding immigrant rights, including granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

It may be that ministers will defy their critics and come up with a truly radical package of measures that puts Britain on course to cut CO2 emissions by a minimum of 60% by 2050.

Jim Killock, the executive director of the Open Rights Group, which has campaigned against the blocking of websites, said doing so for online pornography was an "outrageous" measure that put the UK in the company of countries such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

While states have reduced penalties for some marijuana offenses without interference from the federal government, he said any measure that put a state in the drug business would violate federal law and draw a challenge from the Justice Department.

It was a stop-gap measure that put off a financial reckoning for a few months, but credit agencies responded by slicing the rating on its bonds to near junk status.

Despite a booming economy, the state budget remains relatively tight; it could be up to $1 billion in the red, in part because of restrictions on taxation such as Proposition 13, the trend-setting 1978 ballot measure that put a cap on local property taxes.Mr Davis is likely to use this and any other weapon he can lay his hands on to preserve his moderate reputation.