Sentence examples for set overall from inspiring English sources

The tunes' original function as music for square dancing and contra dancing is suggested in the the entry, substitution and reappearance of themes that weave in and out, like dancers, within a set overall pattern.

In addition to being under the supervision of a general superintendent, each district would have a local parent-community advisory council, but the elected citywide board would still set overall policy.

The planned cuts were announced Thursday by Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, chairman of the Budget Committee, who was empowered by the House to single-handedly set overall spending limits through September.

This good news is in part the result of a strategy called "catch shares," under which regional fish councils set overall limits on the annual harvest and then apportion the catch among individual fishermen.

The dispute has also become a trial of strength between the national governments — many of which guard jealously the right to set overall spending plans — and the Parliament, which gained new powers under the bloc's new Lisbon Treaty.

Such an approach would set overall targets and let emitters figure out the best way of meeting them; the regulatory option would require an agency of limited resources to police a huge chunk of the economy on a case-by-case basis.

Medicare officials set payment rates each year, using a complex formula that sets overall goals for spending on doctors' services.

He sets overall goals but lets his lieutenants work out how to meet them and goes with the policy that best pleases him.

Mr. Grassley said the committee would take up the tax bill soon, following a vote in the House on Wednesday and in the Senate on Thursday on the final budget framework setting overall tax and spending levels.

This was part of her wider vision of a modern union movement that would abandon its intransigent defence of free collective bargaining and become a partner of government in setting overall economic targets, including wages.

"We fix prices for every physician procedure and hospital visit," said Thomas A. Scully, administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who sets overall payment policy for the programs.