But the state accepted a proposed recovery plan from a newly appointed C.E.O., Danny King.
Ultimately, they said, the agency's chairman, Robert Pitofsky, decided to accept a proposed settlement because of additional concessions that the companies had made in the last month.
The battle over the future of VNU heated up Monday as the Dutch media company's management urged investors to accept a proposed 7.5 billion euro buyout and reject a rival plan put forth by a dissident shareholder.
On a folded copy of the day's newspaper, he kept score of those opposed to any increase in the budget and those willing to accept a proposed 2.7percentt increase.
The second circuit wrote, correctly, "For the courts to simply accept a proposed SEC consent decree without any review would be a dereliction of the court's duty to ensure the orders it enters are proper".
Department officials refused to accept a proposed finding in an environmental assessment for the United States Border Patrol that putting towers with radar, cameras and communications equipment on Interior Department lands would have no significant impact, said a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection.
Heathrow is to press the government to loosen the conditions attached to a third runway going ahead, with the airport reluctant to accept a proposed ban on night flights or legislation against further expansion.
The measure expressed "grave concern" over the crisis in Darfur, in western Sudan, but to achieve the unanimous backing of the 15-member Council the United States had to drop language putting pressure on Sudan to accept a proposed United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force there.
We can either go ahead with our symbolic vote, which has the potential to generate serious backlash from the countries that oppose it, or we can accept a proposed set of commitments from our allies, the most powerful nations in the world, in return for postponing the referendum.
Judge Randa also cited an earlier Rakoff opinion, in a 2009 S.E.C. case against Bank of America, in which the judge declined to accept a proposed settlement and made the parties draw up another agreement, which called for a bigger fine against the bank.
