Sentence examples for measures underscored from inspiring English sources

The governor's threat today to operate the government indefinitely on emergency spending measures underscored how far apart Democrats and Republicans remain over this year's budget.

The measures underscored the role that computers, social media and cellphones have played in the recent political upheavals in the Middle East, not just in organizing resistance to entrenched leaders, but also in helping security services crack down on protesters.

As the Obama administration took the first step Friday to regulate the drilling method known as fracking, opposition to the safety measures underscored the challenge of policing a practice that has cut U.S. dependence on foreign oil but raised fears of environmental damage and water contamination.

The measures underscore longstanding concerns that the agency does not have enough trained staff to handle a summer with severe and widespread forest fires.

In many ways, the new measures underscore the lock Democrats have over the State Capitol, where they hold an overwhelming majority in both houses.

The lopsided vote in the Council, where among the 15 members only the United States voted no, as well as the more than 100 co-sponsors of the measure, underscored the isolation of the United States and Israel on the issue.

At 13 18 months post intervention, differences were no longer found between the groups on any measure, underscoring the difficulty in adopting exercise outside of a formal program.

The call for pension-reform measures was underscored today by the news that unfunded private pension liabilities more than quadrupled last year, to $111 billion, according to Representative George Miller, Democrat of California.

Page A4 LATVIA REJECTS LANGUAGE BID Voters in Latvia rejected a proposal to adopt Russian as a second official language, defeating a constitutional referendum measure that underscored the ethnic and political tensions that remain more than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

MOSCOW — Voters in Latvia on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to adopt Russian as a second official language, defeating a constitutional referendum measure that underscored the ethnic and political tensions that remain more than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A big reason why climate mitigation has strong public support in Amsterdam, Ekker explained, is that the municipality rallies support for climate mitigation not by trying to debate the impacts of climate change or scare the public, but by calling its climate policies "sustainability measures" and underscoring their economic and public health benefits. .