Sentence examples for principal measures from inspiring English sources

Its principal measures had been briefed beforehand, leaving people to digest the "pasty tax".

"We believe that there can be agreement on the principal measures," he said.

The principal measures that Obama had taken — implementing the stimulus package, rescuing the banks, restructuring the automakers — had begun to stabilize the economy.

As a result, the principal measures of economic integration, cross-border flows of goods and capital, showed no advance last year.

Government price subsidies on food, statutory price controls on consumer goods, and the provision of free education and health services by the government were the principal measures guided by equity considerations.

The principal measures against lampreys, short of catching and eating them (Henry I of England died in 1135 after consuming some), have included applying lampricides to larval habitats, trapping them at barriers and releasing sterilized males at spawning time in the spring.

We use MSA unemployment, averaged of over 3 months (to reduce measurement error), as our principal measure of the business cycle.13 In work not shown, the use of a lagged unemployment measure produced results similar to those shown.

The principal measure to avoid clinically important hypoglycaemia will be hourly measurement of BG when insulin is first administered.

But for NBC, the big story was the appeal to the young adult viewers it uses as its principal measure of success.

Profits became the principal measure of managerial success, and bonuses based on profits had an appreciable effect on managers' and workers' incomes.

I learnt a lot from Lewis Hyde's The Gift (Canongate £15), a study of how artists are evaluated in societies like our own, where a high income is taken as the principal measure of success.