Sentence examples for put forward a measure from inspiring English sources

If the bill clears the House on Friday, Republican leaders could put forward a measure as soon as next week that would raise the government's statutory borrowing limit.

Tom Coburn, a senator from Oklahoma and a scourge of government waste, had put forward a measure to eliminate an expensive tax credit for ethanol.

"It beggars belief that the government could put forward a measure that could cost the budget money and make the superannuation system less fair.

We also put forward a measure, the spectral polarimetric dimension, which quantifies the intensity-distribution spread and in this sense the effective dimensionality of a light field.

When Republicans were exploring every means possible to stall the Democrats' push for health care reform, they nevertheless put forward a measure to give people a $3,500 annual tax deduction to pay for their pets' medical care.

But instead, Sen. Phil Berger, the GOP leader of the chamber, put forward a measure that would set a six-month "cooling-off" period during which time localities would be barred from making changes to their ordinances on issues of employment and public accommodations.

Mr. Reid plans to put forward a modest measure to increase the penalties for those who purchase guns illegally, known as straw purchasing, but without a strong background check bill, that bill could be rendered toothless.

Now, a group of senators, led by John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas and one of the strongest gun rights advocates in Congress, has put forward a similar measure that would improve the reporting of domestic violence convictions.

Rubio warned Republicans in the House, who put forward a $622 million measure (a third of the administration's proposal), to "not play with fire".

The superintendent also skillfully handled political turmoil on the school board, keeping his job even as residents successfully put forward a ballot measure leading to the 2003 recall of school board member Nativo V. Lopez.

We put forward a method to measure the frame transfer time of CCD camera based on the integrating sphere, and to solve the smear problem of frame transfer CCD camera by using the measured frame transfer time.