Sentence examples for stimulus about from inspiring English sources

Some people think that the stimulus – about 5% of these nations' income – has not been enough to convince people to spend again.

Last fall, when Mr. Bush first offered his tax cut proposal, the economy needed more stimulus about as much as a drunk needs another double.

It has set aside $35 billion of its stimulus, about 6%, for green tech, in areas such as subsidies for residential solar projects.

The reality is that economic growth theory treats Keynesian stimulus about the same as it treats U.F.O.'s: they are not considered to be an important part of what creates sustained growth for nations  (see also my previous list of growth policies from Aghion and Howitt's economic growth book, and the notable absence of any kind of policy to promote short run consumption).

Krugman points out, "You could get a lot of stimulus, about $300 billion, just by providing aid to states and localities so they can reverse their budget cuts.

In the first setting, participants experienced a series of either a slightly painful stimulus — about as painful as grasping a slightly too hot cup of coffee — or no pain.

Remifentanil attenuated hyperalgesia to blunt stimuli about twice as potently as hyperalgesia to punctuated stimuli, as indicated by a significantly steeper linear relationship between the remifentanil plasma concentration and the increase of the pain threshold to blunt stimuli.

The ruling coalition has announced a fiscal stimulus of about 1.4% of GDP, mainly via tax cuts.

As a result, all stimuli had about equal intensity.

[One might also ask how many times one gets to be totally wrong about major policies and maintain credibility -- Romney was wrong about the auto-rescue, wrong about the stimulus, wrong about his own tax plan... and so on.].

We also extracted similar epochs around the deviant stimuli (about 50 trials/noise condition/subject) in order to examine them for the precise frequency range of the 40-Hz response to audible stimuli, as this varies somewhat across individuals.