The phrase "abortive proposal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a proposal that has failed or been unsuccessful in achieving its intended purpose.
Example: "The committee ultimately rejected the abortive proposal, citing a lack of feasibility and support from stakeholders."
Alternatives: "failed proposal" or "unsuccessful proposal".
Various abortive proposals were made to extend the line, whose dead-end nature deprived it of much of its usefulness.
That draft also is much shorter andless detailed than an abortive 2015 proposal to overhaul China's foreign investment system, according to a blog post by three attorneys at Covington & Burling.
A variety of abortive schemes were proposed, including an 1864 proposal by the nominally independent Weald of Kent Railway to run a route from to Hythe via Cranbrook for which the SER obtained parliamentary authorisation as a defensive measure against a similar scheme proposed by the rival London, Chatham and Dover Railway.
In 2005, he began working for Atos, working on their proposals for the abortive ID Card.
Yet North Korea tossed aside an American proposal aimed at just that during abortive talks in June last year.
Richard Lehmann, editor of the Forbes/Lehmann Income Securities Investor, agrees that implementation of the Flaherty proposal is anything but assured, noting two abortive attempts since 2004 to change tax laws pertaining to trusts in Canada and the proposed grace period until 2011 for existing trusts.
Yet politicians have been soliciting similar proposals since 2007, without bringing any to fruition; abortive efforts at Peterhead go back even further.
Although his plan accommodated the interests of the native Irish landholders, the abortive Ulster rebellion of Sir Cahir O'Dogherty in 1608 convinced the London government that Chichester's proposals were too moderate.
Efforts by Swedes and Prussians proved abortive.
