Sentence examples for measures up for from inspiring English sources

With both measures up for reauthorization, opponents are promoting a bill, introduced by Representatives Greenwood, Woolsey and Lee, that would devote $100 million for programs that teach both abstinence and contraception.

Ballot measures up for a vote in 2005 generated $466 million in spending to support or oppose these measures, up from just $24 million in 2003, says the non-partisan Institute on Money in State Politics.

With competing measures up for votes, neither was expected to pass.

Stronger measures up for a vote also failed, including a ban of assault weapons sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif).

The National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, has taken a stance on the various measures up for vote today.

They should measure up for some shelves in the bathroom, too.

Sean Spicer, spokesman for the House Budget Committee, said House leaders would bring the measure up for a vote on Wednesday.

For Gio's sake, I hope Barker is being measured up for a meringue dress rather than reissued with a rocket launcher.

While the Republican-controlled State Senate passed a bill last year, the Assembly, controlled by Democrats, did not bring the measure up for a vote.

And he courted a powerful Democrat, Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, who earlier this year asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fellow Democrat, not to bring the measure up for a House vote.

In fact, two tough, dour and unforthcoming men come in to measure up for the shop replacing it while we're talking.