Sentence examples for a disputed proposal from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a disputed proposal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a proposal that is subject to disagreement or contention among parties involved.
Example: "The committee is currently reviewing a disputed proposal regarding the new budget allocation for the upcoming year."
Alternatives: "a contentious proposal" or "a controversial proposal".

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A disputed proposal to scrap a £50,000 council payout to secure the upcoming Spice Girls gig has been abandoned.

"The fund has shown its relevance during the crisis, but it is still a question of legitimacy," Mr. Strauss-Kahn said, referring to a disputed proposal for European countries to surrender some of their seats on the I.M.F. board to give more of a voice to rapidly growing, middle-income countries.

Correction: March 23 , 2001 Friday Articles on Saturday and Monday about Thomas Trantino, who killed two New Jersey police officers in 1963 and is now the subject of a disputed proposal for a transfer to a halfway house in Washington State, misstated the date he was paroled from prison to a halfway house in Camden, N.J.

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Our first effort examines the deeply disputed proposal for President Obama to declare a new federal monument in southeastern Utah, under the Antiquities Act.

Among the report's more disputed proposals is "a cooperative and voluntary arrangement" among the pharmaceutical industry, governments and the World Health Organization to cut prices on drugs and vaccines.

Among Mr. Sadr's most hotly disputed proposals has been to form a popular militia that his senior aides said would provide greater security in Shiite neighborhoods.

In one of the plan's more widely disputed proposals, opposed by some governing council members, the government would be run by a three-member presidency, chosen by the national assembly.

Max Hastings, in the Daily Mail, is similarly pessimistic about the prospects for the coalition: We may expect tears before bedtime when important disputed proposals become the subject of Commons votes.

In Thailand, after the food industry disputed a proposal for traffic light labelling supported by academic and consumer groups, the Thai Food and Drug Administration enacted GDA labelling as a compromise (54).

Both Labour and the Conservatives are due to elect new leaders in November, but the Tories are riven by a dispute over proposals by one leadership candidate, Murdo Fraser, its current deputy leader, to scrap the existing party and launch a new centre-right Scottish party.

But at the end of a two-day meeting here, overall approval of the plan was snagged by a dispute over proposals to demobilize and disarm the Cambodian national Army and the three guerrilla groups seeking to topple the Government in Phnom Penh.

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