Sentence examples for supports a minimum from inspiring English sources

Labour supports a minimum alcohol price, standardised cigarette packets and is consulting on maximum salt and fat contents, as opposed to fat taxes.

Though she would seem to be a natural supporter for the party — she has been unemployed for a long time, believes more should be done to create jobs and supports a minimum wage — she said she usually waits until just before an election to make up her mind, and in the past two elections, she has voted for the Christian Democrats.

This vast region supports a minimum of 1480 km eelgrass (maximum >2100 km), which corresponds to more than four times the previously quantified area of eelgrass in Western Europe.

A number of other countries, along with unions, supported a minimum of 18.

The government is also expected to back down next week on David Cameron's promise to support a minimum unit price for alcohol.

The producer can then sell the credits to refiners, who pay millions of dollars for them under a government mandate to support a minimum level of production.

A socialist, Mr. Barbosa Lima based his decision on Mr. Vargas's creation of legislation supporting a minimum wage, a social security system and state-controlled enterprises in the steel and mining industries.

Markey, in conversation with Delphi Automotive's Glen DeVos, cut the executive off when he tried to answer a question about whether the industry would support a minimum legal standard by pointing to his company's own high standards.

Labour's shadow home office minister, Diana Johnson, has kept her options open in recent weeks, saying: "We support a minimum unit price where it prevents too low supermarket prices whilst protecting responsible pubs.

Soon after Mr Hague made him shadow chancellor, Mr Portillo dumped the party's "guarantee" of perpetually lower taxes, and announced that Conservatives, too, supported a minimum wage and an independent Bank of England.

Sarah Wollaston MP, the Conservative chair of the Health Select Committee, said: "I have long supported a minimum unit price for alcohol as the most effective way to reduce the harm to the heaviest drinkers, their families and communities.