Sentence examples for on emergency measures from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government is spending $1bn £600mm) on emergency measures in an attempt to combat one of the most serious droughts in decades.

Since it began, in 2011, officials have focussed on emergency measures to alleviate the immediate problem, such as voluntary reductions in water use, which many local agencies met by restricting uses like the watering of lawns.

Fifteen hospitals may be on emergency measures; accident and emergency departments may have just recorded their worst ever performance; 21,000 people may have had to wait up to 12 hours on trolleys in the past fortnight, with a tent set up outside Swindon's Great Western hospital to cope with the overload.

A separate Act on Emergency Measures for Road Developments (Douro Kinkyu-Seibi Sochi-hou) came into force in 1958.

When our regulators embark on emergency measures to deal with a financial panic, those measures should be contained to the crisis at hand.

Work-sharing programs and reduced pay could be in the offing to prevent layoffs, according to press reports on emergency measures under negotiation between the government and industry that were broadly confirmed Thursday afternoon by Labor Minister Yoichi Masuzoe.

After months of hand-wringing, the US Government has reached its debt limit, forcing lawmakers to embark on a series of emergency measures to prevent public finances from going into immediate default.

Senegalese foreign ministry official Sorry Kaba told BBC Afrique that African countries needed to work together, not only on the issue of emergency measures to help migrants, but also to come up with longer term solutions.

London mayor Boris Johnson has been urged to impose a series of emergency measures including bans on schools car runs and restrictions on the most polluting vehicles.

Commenting on the need for emergency measures, Prime Minister Geir Haarde said on 6 October, "There [was] a very real danger... that the Icelandic economy, in the worst case, could be sucked with the banks into the whirlpool and the result could have been national bankruptcy".

12.17pm BST AFP has more on parliament's failure to vote on Maliki's call for emergency measures.