Sentence examples for taking significant measures from inspiring English sources

The United Nations announced it would consider taking "significant measures" to address the test.

And then there are some large corporations that fully 'get' the danger we're in as a species and are taking significant measures to diversify, go green, conserve energy.

But, according to testimony by Lauren K. Saunders, a lawyer for the National Consumer Law Center, they are often trumped by "a deregulatory bias and faith in the free market, an antipathy to taking significant consumer protection measures that are opposed by the industry, an excessive reliance on fine print disclosures when the agencies have acted and just plain inertia".

However, General Carleton did not take significant offensive measures until May 22, when he sailed to Trois-Rivières with the 47th and 29th regiments.

In a news conference after the G8 summit, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said that "if the DPRK [North Korea] conducts another missile launch or nuclear test, we have committed ourselves to take further significant measures".

Uruguay's UN ambassador and president of the council, Elbio Rosselli, said on Wednesday that "the members of the security council … recalled that they have previously expressed their determination to take further significant measures in the event of another DPRK [North Korea] nuclear test".

At a news conference after the meeting, William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, who led the talks, highlighted a pledge by the ministers "to strengthen the current sanctions regime and take further significant measures in the event of a further launch or nuclear test" by the North.

"It will take significant time and investment for countries to develop the necessary capacities to measure goal 16," concludes the index.

They took significant breaks only at Christmastime.

We've taken significant share this year.

If we take significant action to reduce greenhouse gases, we may be able to limit the climate change below two degrees Celsius, even maybe 1.5 degrees Celsius, if we're pretty drastic in our measures.