On Saturday, she said that the failure of her proposal for universal coverage in 1994 made her more determined to achieve the goal now.
Eisland of the Bronx, who heads the Land Use Committee, said the failure of the proposal to tackle the community-facility issue in greater detail was "one of the main sticking points".
For Julie Simpson, president of the pro-chicken group Urban Chicken Advocates of Nashville, it was the failure of a proposal to legalize the birds in 2009 that inspired her to think about raising hens.
By late Tuesday, Mr. Mangano's aides were privately playing down the failure of the proposal, suggesting that Mr. Mangano's goal all along was to be able to say he had done all he could to keep the Islanders in Nassau.
Although his railing design for the Peace Bridge was constructed, he was bitterly disappointed by the failure of his proposal for the park's Memorial to the Dead, which he believed was rejected because, in spite of his Japanese heritage, he was an American.
Williams attributes the failure of the proposal mainly to the absence of bipartisan support for it, highlighting the "determined and effective" opposition of senior Coalition politician Peter Reith.
The failure of the proposal, and the wider issue of why the Allies were unable to save the 435,000 Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz between May and July 1944, became the subject of bitter debate for many years.
Judith Sunderland, senior western Europe researcher of Human Rights Watch, said "the lack of solidarity from the rest of the EU" had caused an "almost utter failure of any proposals for greater burden-sharing".
Looking back on it, the failure of the Social Security proposal in 2005 marked the symbolic end of more than two decades in which conservatives had pushed — successfully, more often than not — to diminish the role of government and to elevate the role of the market in the national economy and the lives of individuals.
However, one close business associate of the YankeeNets said that the office closing and dismissals were linked with the embarrassment that Raymond Chambers, the wealthy New Jersey philanthropist and a partner in the sports consortium, felt at the failure of the arena proposal to win legislative approval last week.
The failure of the peacekeeping proposal comes at a time of increasing worry about the country's stability and risk of increased violence.
