Sentence examples for a sweeping proposal from inspiring English sources

[C3.] U.S. Proposes Changes in Subsidies The Clinton administration introduced a sweeping proposal at the World Trade Organization to change the way governments subsidize farmers, challenging the European Union's extensive agricultural subsidies.

In January 1935, the Economic Security committee delivered a sweeping proposal for "cradle to grave" insurance.

The initial wariness of City Council members to such a sweeping proposal was as redoubtable as the building's thick walls.

Such a sweeping proposal, which would require congressional approval, seemed a heavy lift even before the DeVos nomination.

But they said it remained unclear how vigorously Chinese officials would enforce the new rules, which already are watered down from a sweeping proposal first raised in 2007.

Richard J. Codey announced a sweeping proposal that would for the first time create an independent agency to enforce ethics laws in the executive branch.

A more sweeping proposal for a central market for many customer orders drew criticism on Wall Street and in the Senate.

A little earlier, Mr. Obama was trying to negotiate a deal with the House speaker, John A. Boehner, at the same time the Senate's so-called Gang of Six, which included three very conservative Republicans, proposed a more sweeping proposal that came closer to the vision outlined by the president in April.

While approving the measure, the Senate rejected, by a vote of 55 to 43, a more sweeping proposal by Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, that would have restricted state attorneys general from enforcing rules to be issued by a new federal consumer financial protection bureau.

Republicans blocked a less sweeping proposal, the Dream Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants.

The rethinking is being prodded by a potentially sweeping proposal that has divided the Congress Party.