While the system was successful, it proved to mostly be a stopgap measure from Nintendo, who had bigger plans in store.
Is that something that the President would agree to, a stopgap measure?
Congress has yet to enact its yearly stopgap measure to prevent the AMT from applying to more taxpayers, known as the patch.
"It's still sort of a Band-Aid, stopgap measure, to keep state regulators at bay until they can come up with a new framework, " agrees Passmore.
This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people.
But both Boehner and Gingrich maintained that no stopgap measure would be passed to reopen closed parts of government until there was a balanced-budget plan was completed.
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More helpfully, the state has intervened to buy long-term electricity contracts to sell on to the less creditworthy utilities, although that still looks something of a stopgap measure.
As a stopgap measure, tenuous ceasefires can still be useful.
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The move by the Yankees appears to be a brilliant one as a stopgap measure to replace left fielder Brett Gardner, lost for the season due to elbow surgery.
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The debt limit will be raised, the stopgap spending measure currently funding government operations will be replaced by something that avoids a shutdown, and the sequestration provisions of the Budget Control Act will be diluted.
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Presumably, such sentiments will make it impossible for members of Congress to justify continued public funding of the organization when the Senate considers the decision taken by the House of Representatives to zero out NPR in the latest stopgap funding measure.
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