The phrase "a week put forward" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing scheduling or rescheduling events, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The meeting has been scheduled for a week put forward from the original date."
Alternatives: "a week ahead" or "a week in advance".
As a result, say American officers, they can judge the importance of a captured Sunni insurgent or Shia militiaman by the number of high-ranking Iraqi commanders calling up to demand his release.To address this dilemma, Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's Shia prime minister who has promised to reach out to Sunnis, this week put forward an initiative aimed at creating a less sectarian security force.
Apparently in an attempt to appease the demonstrators, Mr. Morsi this week put forward legislation to reopen a lucrative "free trade zone" in the city and allocate nearly $60 million of canal revenue to the development of Port Said and two other canal towns, Suez and Ismailia.
Another coalition smart cookie is pensions minister Steve Webb, who last week put forward decent proposals to recast pensions in a manner that will advantage many.
Vojislav Kostunica, the Yugoslav president, this week put forward his vision, which rules out independence and proposes a federation that allows substantial autonomy for the two republics.
It also frustrated the European Commission, which this week put forward proposals to reform the CAP (see our story on European agriculture).But the Franco-German agreement that has caused the most consternation of late was the one struck on January 14th, again over dinner, on the EU's future governance.
By a strange coincidence, two papers appear on the arXiv this week putting forward similar explanations for the Bengalese finch's ability.
And if the Americans were already planning to do without British forces at the sharp end, why not gratefully take that as a way out?A final British attempt mid-week to put forward a resolution that, by setting a series of tests for the Iraqis to meet, might get at least a majority of Security Council support seemed to owe more to desperation than to a strong expectation of success.
"Now, a week after we put forward our plans, the prime minister and chancellor scramble around in a panic trying to come up with something.
The managers affected have been given four weeks to put forward their views before a 90-day consultation on job losses starts in March.
After months of negotiations and mediation with no real progress, a few weeks ago we put forward a comprehensive proposal that provides a clear path to resolution.
