Sentence examples for the sequestration that from inspiring English sources

"We are just beginning to see impacts of the sequestration that came into effect last Friday," she said.

"I almost did not vote for the debt deal because of the sequestration that so disproportionately targets the Department of Defense," said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine.

It raises the Pentagon's base budget by 7.7%, which offsets the sequestration that was put in place in 2011.

In recent months, as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to end food stamps for the poor, continued the sequestration that slashed meals for sick and homebound seniors, and moved toward ending Saturday mail delivery, it rejected a 1percentt cut in military spending and, then, voted for a national defense authorization that provided for billions of dollars more than the Pentagon requested.

And as The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim reported Saturday, there are no signs that federal agencies are preparing any major changes ahead of the deadline, suggesting they do not anticipate any direct fallout from the sequestration that goes into effect at the end of the year.

I don't know if the sequestration that's set to begin Friday will produce a little crisis or a big one; the sad fact is that the Republicans don't know, either, yet they're still willing to put the country at risk to make a political point.

Young, in a statement, called the measure "a less than perfect solution," but said it "avoided a pending fiscal cliff that would have raised federal income taxes on millions of American families and small businesses," and "temporarily delays the across-the-board sequestration that would harm our national defense".

Remember how (in July 2011) they broke with the bipartisan tradition of automatically raising the debt ceiling -- a break with tradition that cost the United States its triple-A credit rating, and forced the automatic sequestration that now stands at the core of the impending fiscal crisis?

WASHINGTON — Let's play truth or consequences with the budget sequestration that took effect on Friday.

City officials and United States Navy officers are grappling with that question because of the federal sequestration that led to broad cuts in spending on military and domestic programs.

But this line of reasoning ignores the additional carbon sequestration that would occur without wood harvesting for bioenergy (the counterfactual), which does not make bioenergy carbon neutral (Haberl et al., 2003; Holtsmark, in press).