Sentence examples for securing the minimum from inspiring English sources

What is not well known is that if President Obama succeeds in securing the minimum wage increase he is seeking, the government could end up with more than half of the increased pay gained by some of the minimum wage workers he claims to want to help.

And with £100m spent on the squad after Gareth Bale's sale to Real Madrid, Levy is still likely to want Sherwood to deliver, or at least be very close to securing, the minimum pre-season expectation of a place in the top four and next season's Champions League.

Meanwhile, the West German Greens could not secure the minimum 5 percent of the national vote and were thus excluded from parliament.

The right of the wealthy to guard themselves from hypothetical dangers must be weighed against the right of everyone else to secure the minimum necessary to sustain life.

All of Labour's city hall hopefuls who secured the minimum nominations required from the party's London constituencies progressed through an interview process to make it on to the ballot paper.

Rather, a significant proportion of those fleeing countries such as Afghanistan or Iraq are fleeing a chronically fragile state, within which they are unable to secure the minimum conditions of human dignity.

Yet as the deadline approached, Kabel's investors finally gave their backing for the deal, and Vodafone confirmed on Thursday that it had secured the minimum 75 percent acceptance needed for the takeover to proceed.

He had run virtually unopposed, as the YSP candidate was unable to secure the minimum number of votes necessary in the GPC-dominated parliament to stand in the election.

"We have a run-in that will be used to firstly secure the minimum of a play-off place, and then prepare for those head-to-head games".

And by their first scheduled pit stop, 10 laps into the 71-lap race, the crew was not only able to rebalance the car, but they were also able to devise a new race strategy that was just enough to secure the minimum number of points to win the world championship.

Since the Democrats were only able to secure the minimum 60 votes to get past the Republicans this time, without Lieberman's vote (and all of the centrists'), if no Republican jumps ship, a bill containing a public option cannot get to the floor.