Sentence examples for measures to shift from inspiring English sources

He's continued to carve away at the already grossly inadequate measures to shift Britain towards a low-carbon economy.

It is a measure of the crisis that even Johnson, who rails against attempts to tame speculators, also supports – at least on paper – other recommendations of the commission, such as central government giving boroughs more freedom to borrow to build council homes and taking measures to shift public spending away from benefits into housing that people can afford without needing to depend on them.

On September 2nd, the cabinet agreed to a new, seven-year term limit but only for Mr Fazio's successor.That and other measures to shift some powers from the central bank to the anti-trust authority and the stockmarket regulator are to be included in a bill, drawn up after the 2003 Parmalat fraud scandal, that is aimed at boosting investor confidence.

Measures to shift that balance in favor of ordinary savers — like doing away with the control of interest rates — are consistent with Mr. Li's stated goal of getting China to switch from reliance on investment to a more consumer-driven growth model.

Regional adaptation strategies are plans that consist of feasible measures to shift a region towards a system that is flexible and robust for future climate changes.

The measure, to shift the power of drawing political districts from the Legislature and to a panel of retired judges, is one of three measures backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In 2008, Californians approved a ballot measure to shift the redistricting power for state Legislature seats to a citizens commission.

Although benefits have accrued from the growth in quality measurement, the recent explosion in the number of measures threatens to shift resources from improving quality to cover a plethora of quality-performance metrics that may have a limited impact on the things that patients and payers want and need (ie, better outcomes, better care, and lower per capita costs).

The IEA authors believe governments will find it easier to take smaller focused measures than to shift their entire economies to clean energy systems.

Together, we're developing and testing scientific tools, financial incentives and policy and regulatory measures to help shift palm oil production to already-degraded lands.

This experimental design allowed to assess inhibitory deficits by measuring classical interference effects but also by measuring the ability to shift between tasks instructions.