Sentence examples for measures to extend from inspiring English sources

Nevada casinos have traditionally prevailed whenever they oppose measures to extend gambling in California.

But they have been much slower to take measures to extend transparency to private companies in receipt of public money.

Liberty: Charge or Release This campaign resulted in emphatic victory when the government dropped proposed measures to extend pre-charge detention from the counter-terrorism bill.

On this side of the Atlantic, the Obama Administration took measures to extend its stimulus program, and then, under pressure from Congress, slowly applied some spending restraint.

At the annual World Water Week conference in Stockholm this week, delegates focused on measures to extend access to clean water and sanitation to the world's poor.

Other existing aspects of the ACA, such as measures to extend family coverage to older children up to age 26, also risk being overshadowed by the high-profile, though isolated, problems on the federal website.

Fran Evans, a spokeswoman for the Democratic majority there, said that no measure to extend the terms had been proposed.

The governor has sent the Legislature a measure to extend the law for a week.

In fact, last week we passed a bipartisan measure to extend the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).

Several angry Democrats were pushing to include a measure to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance to the laid-off airline workers.

And the House of Representatives passed a measure to extend a program that allows undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States while they apply for permanent residency.