Sentence examples for place a ceiling from inspiring English sources

Martínez has never used the Premier League's uneven financial playing field as reason to place a ceiling on Everton's possibilities.

Pledging to champion Britain's overlooked "generation rent", he will say he would introduce a mechanism to place a ceiling on rent increases.

In those days, with "childlike emotional intensity" we may have imagined the heavens as "a magical place," "a ceiling of moving spheres, rippling with signs and symbols".

President Bush had sought to place a ceiling on payments to any farmer of $200,000 per year, but the Democratic leaders have set it at $1 million $2 millionn for a couple).

Number One: Place a ceiling on the amount of leverage or borrowed funds used by major financial institutions.

4. In the past, China's refusal to place a ceiling on carbon emissions while its economy is "developing" has been a rallying cry for other developing nations.

Yet the key details were in place: a ceiling-hung bar of the kind from which Richard Gere's character, Julian Kaye, hung while exercising; the reflective chrome Modernist chaise longue; all the mirrors an occupational narcissist might desire.

This cap-and-trade system in Europe places a ceiling on emissions.

The F.D.I.C. places a ceiling on that guarantee program of $1.5 trillion.

Congress, in response, placed a ceiling of a million dollars on the amount of a salary that companies could deduct as a business expense, and encouraged the direct linking of compensation to performance.

He wondered whether the Chinese approach — expanding the areas of acceptable debate slowly and even fearfully — would wind up placing "a ceiling on the overall potential of the Chinese system".