Sentence examples similar to stopping measures from inspiring English sources

As president after president has discovered, there are many ways opponents can stop measures from getting passed, even if the president's party holds a majority in Congress (see Clinton, health care reform, 1994, or Bush, Social Security reform, 2005).

So the administration has stopped measuring progress by deadlines.

What would happen if I stopped measuring myself against an ideal and continually coming up short?

High schools need to stop measuring their success only by the number of admissions into the most selective colleges.

He says that he, too, was heartbroken in 2005 when his clerks stopped measuring loose spices by hand.

It is time, he urged, to stop measuring a country's military might by its manpower alone.

He told the paper: "That's when I stopped measuring life in terms of time and started measuring it in terms of what I could actually do".

If we stopped measuring racism in attitude surveys and legislative change we would realise the real test is to analyse the disadvantages faced by ethnic minority communities.

One of the reliable ways to know when a government is unhappy about a trend is that it simply stops measuring it entirely.

By Evan Osnos April 22, 2012 One of the reliable ways to know when a government is unhappy about a trend is that it simply stops measuring it entirely.

Nor is there any reason that Americans, once fully metricated, should feel compelled to stop measuring large expanses in football fields.