Sentence examples for advocate for a proposal from inspiring English sources

To that end, we are joining school districts from across the state to work with the leadership of the Oklahoma Education Association and our own TCTA to advocate for a proposal to restore funding to education and increase teacher salaries.

The Bay Area commission is perhaps the state's strongest advocate for a proposal that would allow voters to adopt local fees on gasoline and diesel fuel to finance transit service and pay for street and trail improvements that would benefit pedestrians and cyclists.

National fraternity and sorority organizations are backing away from a plan to advocate for a proposal to keep colleges from investigating sexual assault cases under certain circumstances during a student lobbying trip scheduled for next week.

Bannon had advocated for a proposal to replace U.S. troops with private security contractors, an idea floated by Erik Prince, the founder of the controversial contracting firm Blackwater USA and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

The groups are advocating for a proposal in the U.S. House, the Hot Cars Act, which would require cars to include a sensor that alerts drivers when a child has been left in a back seat.

Outside, other Tea Party groups were holding a news conference to express their objections — and advocate for a new proposal that would instead expand tax credits for companies that give low- and middle-income students scholarships to attend private schools.

'Policy entrepreneurs' are individuals in the policy process who advocate for a specific policy proposal, build coalitions or secure political action and are willing to invest their own resources as well as their social and political capital in hopes of a future payoff (Kingdon 2003; Mintrom and Norman 2009).

Keneally said that, when Obeid rang her at home in 2010 to advocate for the proposal, she told him: "The proposal was going to be determined on its merits.

The unit circle appointed him to advocate for the proposal to the company's general-management circle, which decided to have the proposal discussed by the board of directors' (or top) circle.

"The way they have written this bill, it takes away all of the flexibility the president needs to run a department that would respond to the terrorist threat," said Mr. Thompson, the administration's leading advocate for its proposal in the Senate.

The Cyprus government wanted American energy companies to develop its offshore assets as a hedge against possible Turkish meddling, said Mr. Afanasiev, who has been a vocal advocate for a Russian alternative to the European proposal.