"measure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Until now Britain has managed to assemble a "blocking minority" of like minded countries, such as the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland, to resist protectionist measures championed by France.
- In the Senate, Republican leaders moved to block a vote on a bipartisan measure championed by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, that would instruct President Clinton to use "all necessary force and other means" against Serbia.
- In an impressive assertion of organized labor's political might, California voters on Tuesday dealt conservatives a considerable setback by rejecting a measure championed by Republicans that would have pinched the flow of money to Democratic candidates and causes.
- At issue is a sensible measure long championed by Senator Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, to establish a uniform national standard for drunken driving.
- And on Tuesday it defeated a bill that would have defined a fetus as a person, a measure championed by Gordon Humphrey, a former Republican United States Senator who gave up his seat last year to run for the state Senate.
- The measure, championed by Senator Jim Exon, Democrat of Nebraska, was placed as an amendment to a broad bill to deregulate the telecommunications industry.
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