Sentence examples for declined to propose from inspiring English sources

Also this year, for the first time in his tenure, he declined to propose cuts to Medicaid.

Darling refused to be as specific, but pointedly declined to propose the kind of binary choice between Labour spending and Tory cuts proposed by Brown.

While proposing major changes to Medicaid and Medicare, Mr. Ryan also declined to propose changes to Social Security, reflecting Republicans' wariness of alienating older voters.

They considered that this population probably represented a separate subspecies, but declined to propose a new name because they had only one adult specimen.

The Criminal Law Revision Committee has declined to propose a legal definition, for fear of the wide impact that it could have on disparate branches of the law, and the changing basis in medical science.

Politicians have also declined to propose legislative changes that would allow men to have reproductive rights, perhaps due to the assumption that doing so would open the proverbial floodgates and result in an unprecedented number of men opting out of fatherhood.

If the N.C.A.A. declines to propose legislation, Buttafouco laughed at the notion of any sort of "gentleman's agreement" among coaches, despite their near-unanimous desire to stem the tide.

Mazany declined to endorse proposed legislation that would strip teachers of their right to strike, a move that legislators in Springfield are considering and that Daley has said he supports.

Mr. Roth, who declined to comment, has proposed a stripped-down version of a $14 billion proposal that collapsed in 2008, a victim of hubris and a struggling economy.

Berlin also wants to reduce its order for Typhoon fighters to 140 instead of 177, while it would like to take delivery of 80 instead of 122 NH-90 helicopters, and only 40 Tigers, half of an original order for 80. Spokesmen for EADS and the German Defense Ministry declined to discuss the proposed cuts before Mr. de Maizière presented his proposals next week.

He declined to reveal the proposed rent he offered to the group.