Sentence examples for fighting a proposed from inspiring English sources
That's why marketers are fighting a proposed law that sellers must first get the buyers' consent.
Residents in Chester are fighting a proposed Dollar General store, on the grounds that it will mar the quaint nature of a town dependent on tourism.
(pop. 28) He has been working with grass-roots groups in Nebraska that are fighting a proposed low-level nuclear waste plant.
In 2004, while fighting a proposed plan to raise the Shasta Dam 18 feet, the tribe staged a war dance, a four-day, round-the-clock ceremony carried out by their dwindling numbers of warriors.
Starchild is one of a handful of working men and women fighting a proposed city law that would make it illegal to sit or lie on public sidewalks in San Francisco for most of the day.
"I'm an old man, I've been here over 50 years," said Edgar H. Bishop, who along with his neighbors is fighting a proposed 22-house cluster development on his street, Petticoat Lane.
"We started making a list of all the things they could be going in for," said Susan Shapiro, a local lawyer who is among those fighting a huge proposed housing development in what has been a largely rural section of the town.
Meanwhile, the state school board has been fighting over a proposed science standard that calls for "a critical analysis of evolution".
Residents have received little information, which further angers local officials, who were already fighting Con Edison over a proposed substation at West 24th Street and the Avenue of the Americas, in the heart of Chelsea.
"These are for-profit companies, and basically the Department of Energy is underwriting their public-relations campaign," said Daniel Kish, a spokesman for the Institute for Energy Research, a conservative group fighting the proposed emissions caps.
Senators, including John Kerry (D-Mass)., are fighting the proposed drilling as a solution to the California energy crisis, citing that less than one percent of the state's electricity comes from oil, and that oil from the ANWR would not be available for at least 10 years.
