He rendered a hard line proposal, first in last November's issue of Foreign Affairs and again on March 26 in a speech before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
"They're talking about the problem and they're looking for solutions, but there's really no hard proposal on the table," said Hall, "so while this is informative and helpful, they're not dealing with some proposal where they're close to working on something".
The President will be selling a hard-line proposal for immigration reform as something of a compromise.
But on Tuesday, a relative handful of New Yorkers turned out in the five boroughs and overwhelmingly rejected a hard-fought proposal by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg that would have done just that.
Mr. Obama emerges in this volume as an oddly passive chief executive whose modus operandi was to sketch out overarching principles, "wait until others had painted in those outlines with hard proposals" and then "step down from his above-the-fray perch to close the deal".
No, McKelvey says: "I don't see much in the way of hard proposals for reinstituting discipline coming from either side of the aisle".
But she acknowledged that the enmity between Israelis and Palestinians had made her proposal a hard sell, especially in a country that generally supports Israel.
But member countries were having a hard time reshaping his proposals into something workable.
"If the family kept the child then subsequent children born 'healthy' -- a child with Down syndrome is healthy -- would have a hard time receiving marriage proposals.
Roche will still have a hard time getting such a proposal through, however, as this type of amendment requires the consent of 66.66 percent of all Illumina's shares, a very high threshold.
But a conservative Democrat and a Maine independent proved to have no sway with most Democrats, who protested that the proposal lacked a hard cap on interest rates to protect against market fluctuations.
