Sentence examples for delay a proposal from inspiring English sources

Last month, the jet makers (along with regional airlines) helped to delay a proposal by Europe's air-traffic authorities.

Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia voted Tuesday night to delay a proposal to disband the school's intercollegiate sports teams, strongly signaling that they want the school to remain in NCAA Division II athletics.

It claims that if Kosovo is granted independence, the ultranationalist Radical party will come to power in the next elections, and believes that holding elections as early as this year will cause the contact group to delay a proposal to the security council.

As the House approached a pre-election recess late Friday, the House Democratic leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, forced a vote on bringing in an outside counsel to investigate Mr. DeLay, a proposal she knew would be defeated but one that put all House Republicans on record against a further inquiry.

Making it increasingly clear that the Congressional debate is more a matter of political positioning than policy creation, the Senate failed Wednesday to come to terms on the ground rules for considering an energy bill, delaying a proposal to curb speculation in oil futures and stymieing a broader review of energy initiatives.

The government has already delayed a proposal to remove money designed to fund travel for disabled people in residential care from the existing Disability Living Allowance.

Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has asked Congress to refrain from trying to delay an S.E.C. proposal that would limit the consulting work that accounting firms do for audit clients, but a senior lawmaker said that the agency needed more time to work on the proposal.

At the end, the board voted to delay considering a proposal until January, when two new board members will be in place, ensuring that the battle would continue for at least several more months.

Microsoft cited one government demand as one justification for its proposed delays: a proposal requiring Microsoft to share technical information about Windows with other software companies that is far more sweeping than Microsoft's plan.

The government has already been forced to delay a vote on its proposals for English votes for English laws until the autumn because of fears David Cameron did not have enough support to get them through the Commons.

Scrapped from the bill's final version were some controversial measures, including one that would have created an extensive system for tracking drug shipments and another that would have delayed an FDA proposal on the regulation of certain smartphone apps.