Sentence examples for the very measures from inspiring English sources

Now he must set about implementing the very measures he earlier swore to bury for ever.

At the national level, the rightwing government of Sebastián Piñera is struggling to understand how, after four years of high growth, fiscal discipline and low inflation – which many would argue are the very measures of success – Chileans failed to award his party another term in office.

"In the posts of finance minister and alternate finance minister," Manos said, "Papandreou has appointed two populists who are opposed to the memorandum [outlining the reforms agreed by Greece in return for being bailed out] and the very measures they are asked to implement.

United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Thankfully, Ms. Fallenstein appreciates that some musicians might not wholeheartedly embrace the very measures meant to help them.

In the long-run, the very measures that are holding up so far could start to unravel.

But he was also a revolutionary – and it is the very measure of what he ultimately achieved that we should sometimes fail to recognise him as such.

There was only one problem with Mr. Unz's letter: it misread the very measure that he had helped to write.

So it was for Representative Gary L. Ackerman, Democrat of New York, who lost a battle to pass a measure to eliminate cattle that cannot walk from the food supply, the very measure the Agriculture Department implemented this week with the industry's blessing.

The very measure of a doctor lies in their predictive abilities, their grasp of the crystal ball: "How long have I got, doctor?" The Corpus Hippocratum of early Greek medicine underlined just that: "I hold that it is an excellent thing for a doctor to practise forecasting.

I am here for the cops and firefighters, the teachers and assembly line workers--the folks whose lives are the very measure of whether the American dream endures.