Sentence examples for dropped the proposal from inspiring English sources

The funds dropped the proposal after Marsh & McLennan nominated Carter.

The school's trustees dropped the proposal only after large-scale protests.

Alain Edouard Traore, communications minister, said the government had dropped the proposal to amend a two-term limit on the presidential mandate.

Northwest and Ethical Investments dropped the proposal to split the chairman and chief executive roles from the summer investor meeting after RIM promised to form a committee to study its leadership structure.

Last year the SEC attempted to prevent auditors from offering non-audit services, but dropped the proposal after sustained lobbying by the industry.The accountants are not the only ones who missed the signs at Enron.

Last year, after Gov. David A. Paterson encountered such strong opposition that he eventually dropped the proposal, Mr. Bloomberg expressed support for it but noted the "enormous outcry" and said the idea was "just not one that we're going to be pursuing".

Ms. Norton has turned aside appeals from Governor Bush to drop the proposal.

Truss told BBC's Radio 4 programme there was no plan to drop the proposal.

Dropping the proposal is, of course, just what a large chunk of the Republican Party was hoping for all along.

On Wednesday night, dozens of boat owners crowded into a public hearing to make impassioned pleas to drop the proposal.

Later the Europe minister David Lidington went further, suggesting in the House of Commons that the Government was prepared to drop the proposal altogether.