The other would impose numerical ceilings on nuclear cruise missiles at sea.

It is always easier to detect cheating on a total ban compared with a numerical ceiling.

Sceptics will highlight that the agreement does not specify numerical ceilings.

This could not be done as long as the force was being organized to fit a numerical ceiling rather than an operational concept.

This suggest that the regularities are the possible result of numerical ceilings embedded in the voting machines.

It also appeared to interpret the safety board proposals as calling for hard-and-fast numerical ceilings on peak traffic flow through busy areas.

Consequently, Russia demanded a "compensatory lowering" of overall NATO numerical ceilings on such equipment.

In the 2010 New START treaty, Russia and the United States set lower numerical ceilings on the weapons tested in the exercise.

NATO, which has previously said it had no intention of stationing "substantial" numbers of troops in newly admitted nations, rebuffed Russia's demands for a specific, numerical ceiling.

We should also seek an agreement on common numerical ceilings for artillery, the range between NATO's and that of the Warsaw Pact, provided these definitional problems can be solved.

Rather than suggest a numerical ceiling for tolerable inflation, Mr. Greenspan defined his goal as the point at which inflation expectations have no impact on people's decisions to buy, save or invest.

The commitment on the part of the states parties to overall compliance and keeping within the numerical ceilings set for equipment and strengths shows that it is universally perceived as a factor of security and stability which it is important both to preserve and enhance.

After their talks on Monday and Tuesday in Washington, Mr. Baker and Mr. Kozyrev said they still needed to agree on an overall numerical ceiling on long-range nuclear warheads, sub-ceilings on various different weapons and an understanding on how quickly certain missiles would be phased out.

The compromise between the professionally interested parties, the outsiders and the 'Barons', was arrived at by, on the one hand, removing the numerical ceiling which operated previously, to the detriment of the large firms, but also, by placing a limitation on these same firms, preventing them from flooding the rota with in experienced staff.