Examples
“I told him, in the course of our conversation, that I held myself engaged to support the measures of the body of the Whigs, and deprecated any precipitate resolution, unless there was reason to imagine that _measures_ would be changed.”
“President Obama opposes additional short term measures to keep the government running.”
Voice of America: Obama, Congressional Leaders Narrow Differences, Still No Agreement
“While Schlesinger agrees with Merkel's appraisal that no short term measures can work, she adds that the financial crisis gripping Europe, "requires a coordinated effort among the 17 eurozone countries, one which admits that the survival of the EU requires the stronger economies to bail out the weaker ones - sorry Germany!”
“The problem is that they are taking short term measures without fixing the problem which is that a sustained and sustainable growth rate of 1% per year with a bit of luck blows their public finances out of the water.”
“We've had enough short term measures, sticking plasters that just get us through the next few weeks," British finance minister George Osborne told reporters on Saturday.”
“The word "measures" is taken to mean sanctions, and the Russians wanted it either replaced with something like "steps" or removed altogether.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
“The party is also trying to blend an argument on the economy, setting out short term measures to increase demand, and map out the longer term changes designed to reshape of the economy.”
“Despite the fact most historic homes are already well insulated and cool in the summer, the rules encourage insulation and waste of resources by encouraging short term measures like plastic windows.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Well, in fact if you look at the impact of the Recovery Act or some of the kinds of measures the president has presented - so, for example, rehiring teachers, trying to help prevent layoffs of folks in that sector, rebuilding schools, highways - those are the only short term measures that have actually worked to get people back to work, so I just don't see any there there.”
“Yeah, some of them are short term measures and not people you'd build a team around but beyond RVP who i feel a bit sorry for and Vermallin, there is no real solid experience or leadership in the team.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...grow, greatest country, greatest, grow the economy, great nation, great decisions, great, government, great NATIONAL su..., good times, good job, good and generous... and 751 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
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