Sentence examples for measures warned from inspiring English sources

Organizations in favor of tough measures warned against wholesale changes to the legislation.

When Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012, opponents of the measures warned that ending the longstanding prohibition on weed would wreak havoc on society.

Outside the bureau, skeptics of the new measure warned that the phrase "near poor" — a common term, but not one the government officially uses — may suggest more hardship than most families in this income level experience.

The state's voters also rejected an initiative that would have cut, and then eliminated, the state's personal income tax, by a two-to-one margin; opponents of the measure warned that eliminating taxes would put a dangerous squeeze on state programs, including education and public safety.

Opponents of the measure warned that violent crime would go up, but according to the report issued Monday by Stanford Law School's Three Strikes Project in conjunction with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, less than two percent of the more than 1,000 inmates released so far under Prop 36 have been re-arrested for a new offense, and none for a serious, violent offense.

"One will freeze to death without any premonition or preventive measures," he warned.

"That is a figure worth considering before taking any restrictive measures," he warned.

"If the Argentine government fails to make up for its mistake, Iran will adopt appropriate measures," he warned.

The city has furiously concocted crowd-control measures and warned residents that going downtown on inauguration day will be nearly impossible.

Hunt is reluctantly backing anti-piracy measures but warned that if the Tories win the election then any legislation that turns out to be "flawed" or have major "unintended consequences" will be scrapped.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, gave a qualified welcome to the new performance-related measures but warned that tinkering with national pay structures was ill-timed and "risky".