Sentence examples for the ceiling was set from inspiring English sources

The ceiling was set far below the actual economic value of the game's superstars, and the gap between the maximum contract and the market value of elite players has only grown since then.

This year, the ceiling was set at 70,000 refugees.

Back in 1983, the ceiling was set so the Social Security payroll tax would hit 90percentt of all wages covered by Social Security.

In Switzerland, the ceiling is set at nine sessions, corresponding to the median number of sessions.

However, the cost effectiveness acceptability curves showed a 95% probability that the addition of the water-based programme is a cost effective strategy if the ceiling of inversion is €14,200/QALYY and a 97.5% probability if the ceiling is set at €21,233/QALYY.

But the big problem is that even if the ceilings are set generously, lots of deposits fall outside the safety net.

When the United Nations returned to Iraq in 2004, the staff ceiling was set at 35 and has slowly risen since then.

For the health care system in Spain, the 2005 adjusted investment ceiling was set at €34,729/QALYY [ 24].

The highest, hardest glass ceiling was set to be shattered on Tuesday.

The clearest sign of the changing perceptions has come in the prices for the bills that the Treasury Department is supposed to repay in the days right after the debt ceiling is set to be reached.

Earlier Friday, in a public event at the University of Maryland, in College Park, Mr. Obama for the first time addressed, and ruled out, the idea that in an emergency the Constitution would empower him to raise the debt limit to prevent default and, as he put it, "basically ignore" the federal law requiring that the debt ceiling be set by statute.