The NHS Confederation, which represents providers of care, said the special administrator had put forward "some courageous proposals".
Indeed, while convergence on the structure of a federated Cyprus has been recorded, due to President Christofias's bold and courageous proposals, on issues like property, territory and security, where incidentally Turkey has to compromise, the picture is the reverse.
Forthright in his praise for Olivetti's "courageous" proposal the day after it was announced, Italy's prime minister, Massimo D'Alema, had two days later backpedalled to insisting that the government was "neutral" on the deal.
So, last week, two Stanford professors made a courageous proposal to ditch lectures in the medical school.
Today, Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, is scheduled to release the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes.
This second proposal is courageous but likely to prove too little, too late.
But the only thing courageous about Representative Paul D. Ryan's proposal is that it dares to suggest reviving the America of the 19th century, when the poor, the elderly, the infirm and the otherwise unfortunate solved the problems they might have posed by simply dying off.
One of them, Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, called Mr. Rubio's proposals "a very welcome and courageous statement from someone who was elected with Tea Party credentials".
A number of courageous members have signed on to these proposals, but the legislation is still considered a long-shot.
This bid for energy conservation would be the broadest attack on climate change ever undertaken by an American city.The most controversial proposal and the most politically courageous is congestion pricing.
Edward D. Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California, notes the "intelligent, courageous, and sorely needed substantive reforms" in the proposal.
