Sentence examples for most popular measures from inspiring English sources

One of the year's most popular measures, for both states and cities, was requiring workers to take unpaid holiday.

One of the most popular measures in the pre-budget report last December was the one-off, 50% tax on City bonuses.

The scale of this shift is not visible from most popular measures of income or wages, as they do not break the distribution down finely enough.

The new Congress has not even convened yet and already it looks as if one of President Obama's most popular measures, an initiative intended to grant millions of workers more rights to overtime pay, could be an early victim.

One of the most popular measures under the ACA was to bar insurance companies from denying someone coverage due to a pre-existing health condition, such as pregnancy, asthma, diabetes, heart disease, cancer or depression.

One of his most popular measures was the opening of the doors of the legislative council to the public, a practice soon afterwards followed by the older colony of New South Wales.

The Commerce Department calculates the G.D.P. quarterly and these calculations have become the most popular measure of the economy's ups and downs.

And the most popular measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index, does not include the cost of energy or food, "the two most significant aspects of the increased cost of living for the American people".

The second-quarter performance stood in contrast to the two previous quarters, in which the gross domestic product, the most popular measure of the nation's output of goods and services, rose at a weak annual rate of 1.4percentt.

The most popular measure of volatility is the Vix, which focuses on the stockmarket (it measures the cost of options: in effect, the price investors are willing to pay to insure against sharp market moves).

But policymakers now face a different sort of inflation problem: determining which of many competing indices is giving the best picture of prices in America.The most popular measure, the consumer price index (CPI), is a representative basket of goods and services drawn from a survey of the spending habits of 12,200 households.