Sentence examples for doomed proposals from inspiring English sources

It might actually be a blessing if the latter's congested pavements thinned out a bit and its buildings discovered other uses than shopping, as it might spare us the endless, and endlessly doomed, proposals to improve this unimprovable thoroughfare.

Slippery slope Gordon Brown's doomed proposal to introduce a daily allowance for MPs has been compared to a similar system already in place at the European parliament.

Allegations that his office used the state police to smear Joseph Bruno for misusing state aircraft (an affair known as Troopergate), and a doomed proposal to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, have compromised the brand.

"It also reinforced the cartel system of marijuana businesses, giving a few big corporate special interests control of the entire market," Pollara told me of the doomed proposal.

Opposition in the House doomed the proposal last year.

His novels are still widely read and assigned in schools, but as late as 2001 political opposition doomed a proposal to name an Oslo street after him.

Mrs. Clinton's 1993 health care plan was bold and progressive, too, but her secretiveness and failure to woo Republicans on the plan doomed the proposal.

The high price tag doomed the proposal, spurring continued negotiations to settle the issue.

Despite Mr. Lazio's charm, some politicians say that his stubbornness exasperated key Republicans, dooming pet proposals to legislative gridlock.

The 2012 report of the Independent Panel on Forestry (established in the aftermath of doomed forestry privatization proposals) found that the value of the publicly-owned forestry estate in England was about £400 million per year, delivered on the back of an investment of £20 million.

The announcement yesterday appeared to doom a proposal by the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce to moor a riverboat at the piers.