Sentence examples for on temporary measures from inspiring English sources

Lacking the necessary political support to overhaul legislation quickly, he has largely relied on temporary measures to make changes.

For their part, Democrats called for an emphasis on temporary measures to help unemployed and low-income workers, and said the Republican plan would dig the government into a deeper budget hole.

Mr. Bernanke refused to endorse any specific measures, but he said the key to success would be to act fast and to focus on temporary measures that get extra money into the hands of people within the next 12 months.

By insisting on final approval for all local laws, Congress forces the city to rely on temporary measures, creating what Eleanor Holmes Norton, the city's representative in the House, calls a "legislative nightmare".

If that pessimistic view proves correct, the two parties will have to fall back again on temporary measures and gimmicks to avert total fiscal gridlock and the risks of further economic and financial damage to the country – exactly the sequence of events that put them where they are today.

In the meantime, Public Works crews will work on temporary measures, such as removing 25,000 cubic yards of mud closest to the concrete barrier that has buried one of the dam's drains.

It now seems as if it might be asked to vote on a set of temporary measures without knowing how long they might last, and whether there will be another referendum when the EU treaties are finally revised.

A blogpost on Sunday announced a number of temporary measures, such as sending more people toward telephone call centres instead, but substantial improvements are thought to be complicated by the need to mesh dozens of different state computer systems together.

BEIJING — With 49 days remaining before the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, and the air soupy with smog, Beijing officials on Friday announced temporary measures to unsnarl the city's traffic and reduce its chronic and sometimes choking air pollution.

The British Horseracing Authority said on Friday that "temporary measures" to deter misuse of the whip could be introduced in time for the Grand National meeting at Aintree in early April if its current rules – which allow for seven strikes in Flat races and eight over jumps – are repeatedly breached at the Cheltenham Festival later this month.

When the pilot spot for fast-growing and high-yielding timber plantation base was set up, the former Ministry of Forestry, from 1985 to 1989, issued Master Plan and Operational Methods for Fast-growing and High-yielding Timber Plantation Base, and Temporary Measures on Seedling Management in Fast-growing and High-yielding Timber Plantation Base.