"increase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Seeking to block an increase in the premiums banks pay to the deposit insurance fund, bankers and Administration officials said they were close to victory on the eve of a pivotal vote.
- That argument, raised by civil rights and transit advocates in a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, led a Federal judge last week to block a 25-cent subway-fare increase.
- In 2011, Pope voted to override the veto of Governor Bobby Jindal, who had blocked a legislative increase in the tobacco tax.
- The idea was proposed as a way to neutralize Republican threats to block an increase in the statutory debt ceiling thereby causing the nation to default on its debt.
- On September 8, 2011, one of the complex mechanisms to further increase the debt ceiling took place as the Senate defeated a resolution to block a $500 billion automatic increase.
- Democrats have been trying to highlight the issue for months, accusing Republicans of blocking an increase while allowing Congressional pay to rise steadily.
- Republicans also blocked a proposed $200 million increase in financing for the National Science Foundation, he complained.
- I don't believe he wants to be seen any longer blocking a modest increase in the minimum wage.
- In 2003, for example, it joined general consumer groups in Florida in an unsuccessful attempt to block a $350 million increase in telephone rates.
- This has been demonstrated by using an inhibitor of mTOR, rapamycin, to block an increase in muscle mass, despite increases in load (e.g., exercise).
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