Sentence examples for upon measures from inspiring English sources

While police officials in some cities, like Chicago and Salt Lake City, announced new precautions, their counterparts elsewhere said they did not know what more they could do to improve upon measures already taken.

When the legislative commission adjourned (December 1768), it had neither prepared a legal code nor agreed upon measures for restructuring the government; and Catherine made no further efforts to create legislation to implement her principles.

The "politics of memory'' policy has its own department in the ministry of culture and in part depends for its daily running upon measures, condemned by the United States and a range of European bodies and officials, to control the media, the internet and the judiciary.

If any party to a case fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgment rendered by the Court, the other party may have recourse to the Security Council, which may, if it deems necessary, make recommendations or decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgment.

Since arterio-venous PCO2 differences are smaller, venous blood admixture may have a reduced impact upon measures.

If a prima facie case does exist for measures supportive of voice, the downside is the growth in bargaining power attendant upon measures favoring increased worker representation.

The extent to which patients take chronic pain medications as prescribed is not well studied, and there are no generally agreed-upon measures.

For many years, the value of any player could be roughly pegged to agreed-upon measures of performance — so many dollars for a home run or run batted in.

Mr. Monti, Mrs. Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France spoke on Thursday and, in a joint statement, agreed on the need to accelerate previously agreed-upon measures to ensure financial stability and growth in the euro zone, Reuters reported.

The country's governing coalition, which has come under strain as it pushes its painful austerity agenda, must now enforce agreed-upon measures, laying off 2,000 civil servants by the end of June and pushing forward a stalled project to privatize state assets.

In the network's study, "the cost comparison was based on five regional improvement collaboratives producing cost data using agreed-upon measures" approved by the National Quality Forum.