Sentence examples for sort of measures from inspiring English sources

The sort of measures that they are undertaking in Scotland are good developments".

Obama said that in the three months since Newtown, public opinion had shifted in the country to back the sort of measures that previously would have been unpopular.

He, like Professor Conger, argues that because narcissism is a latent human condition that periodically flourishes, the only business antidote is oversight and accountability -- perhaps the sort of measures provided for in the corporate-conduct legislation Congress passed last week.

"I want everyone who is going to conference thinking that 'We'd be better with someone else leading the party' [to ask themselves] what sort of measures would they like the party to present to the public?" he said.

Vice-President Dick Cheney, secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of Bush's top officials could never even contemplate the sort of measures that President Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson adopted 40 years earlier largely without protest.

One Hungarian official says that Slovakia is willing in practice to accept the sort of measures to which Romania has agreed, but dislikes any talk of the status law as such.

The deal specifically precluded the sort of measure Mr. Dorgan is pushing.

Perhaps the final destination of tainted goods is a sort of measure of political transparency and a government's capacity for insulting its citizens.

It sounds strange but in the Chinese culture, you are sort of measured by how many tables you have.

Pushing that sort of measure now is an invitation to filibusters and other disruptive tactics by opponents, exactly the wrong note to strike when everyone is trying to preserve national unity in the face of terrorist threats.

For instance, political analysts are looking to the governor's race in Virginia and not New Jersey -- the only two such contests in the country in this off year -- as a sort of measure of Mr. Bush's popularity.