Opponents said the measure would have forced cuts in school budgets and municipal services.

How will it do that when punitive measures force the whole country into deeper and deeper recession?

But the Mayor said the measure will nonetheless force $81.5 million in cuts to essential city services.

The measure stripped from the bill today would have forced Congress to add $2.5 billion a year for the next 10 years.

The measure will lift price controls on hospitals and force them to compete in an increasingly cutthroat health care market.

I shall take measures, my friend, to force you to pay me.

The officials also say the measures will force people into jobs, and that private money will take over.

The measure would force up long and short-term interest rates and could help to support the pound.

Mr. Sensenbrenner said the measure would force people who have some capacity to pay their debts to do so over the course of five years.

One measure would have forced British haddock fishing boats to lie idle for 10 days every month.