Sentence examples for cornerstone proposals from inspiring English sources

President Bush has made education reform his top domestic priority after tax-cutting, but some of his cornerstone proposals are being reshaped -- some for the better, some for the worse -- as the education package moves through Congress.

Another of his cornerstone proposals — his campaign pledge of a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslim newcomers plus the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants across a border wall paid for by Mexico — has been subjected to endless qualifications as he zigs and zags in pursuit of middle-ground voters.

His cornerstone proposal to give the children who attend failing schools the option to switch to private schools with taxpayer dollars is expected to lack the votes for passage.

Yet even as Mr. Ferrer reiterated his goal to invest heavily in schools, both he and Ms. Weingarten acknowledged that his cornerstone proposal, raising teachers' salaries by 30percentt at the cost of at least $1 billion a year, would not be achieved anytime soon.

Indeed, ending the spectacle of people serving so long is itself a cornerstone of the proposals devised by Domenico Scala, the business executive brought in by Blatter to spearhead the reforms.

What the judge will not hear is last-minute testimony from a witness whom the states hoped to present to support the cornerstone of their remedy proposal, which would require Microsoft to produce a "modular" version of Windows so that computer makers could replace programs like its Web browser with rival software.

And although expanding a primary care base is a cornerstone of every health proposal, the suggested ways to accomplish this are unrealistic.

Carter Administration officials originally made relief for equity a cornerstone of their tax reform proposals, says Washington lawyer Donald Lubick, a former top Treasury official who worked on them.

Apparently, no one around Frank or Dodd questioned the utility of extending bank regulation to other large financial firms, a cornerstone of the Obama administration proposal.

His tax proposal is the cornerstone of his economic policy; he shouldn't shy away from using this, or any other descriptive terminology.

The board of the International Finance Corporation, the financial arm of the World Bank, was also said to have approved a proposal to be a cornerstone investor in the deal.