Sentence examples for an alternative package from inspiring English sources

Mr. Leahy, who has prepared an alternative package of antiterrorism legislation, said through a spokesman that senior staff aides from the committee and the Justice Department met through the day in an effort to reach a bipartisan compromise.

But Senator Collins and members of her committee wrote an alternative package that "would grant the administration's request for a new pay system, on-the-spot hiring authority and collective bargaining at the national level," she said.

In one particularly odd moment, he allowed that he had "underestimated" the appeal of health care reform "among lower incomes," but did not fault himself for never suggesting an alternative package.

House Republicans have proposed an alternative package including a 5% income-tax cut, a freeze on dividend and capital-gains taxes and a hefty increase in the deductions families can claim for children.

In 2005, the Democrats did not offer an alternative package of Social Security reforms for the obvious reason that they disagreed amongst themselves indeed, many believed and continue to believe that the programme is basically sound and in no need of structural reform, a view that I find quite extraordinary.

In the end, the proposed reform (like so many bills threatened with a filibuster) was replaced with something much more innocuous.Just as the row about filibuster reform was about to come to a head, on January 27th, the majority and minority leaders unveiled an alternative package of tweaks to Senate procedures and powers that both had agreed on.

The president insists that any alternative package must combine a balance of spending cuts and new revenues, while Republicans generally oppose new taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

BT Sport presented a viable alternative package to the PGA Tour before the renewal of the Sky deal, with the latter upping its presence at events in the United States in return for an extension.

As pointed out earlier, the results obtained on simulated data differ significantly from those measured on empirical data, and for instance, PRANK outperforms all alternative packages on phylogenetic simulated data, but performs poorly when it comes to reconstructing structural alignments.

Anticipating the Democratic stimulus package, Cantor convened a series of meetings in January, 2009, of what he called the House Republican Economic Recovery Working Group, to devise an alternative stimulus package.

But because of the Web site, that attractive alternative package has remained a black box.