Sentence examples for first mooted in the context of from inspiring English sources
For a long time, then, universal basic income has looked like an elegant solution in search of a problem, including in Australia, where it was first mooted in the context of postwar reconstruction in a 1942 monograph by the radio journalist RG Lloyd Thomas and was a proposition entertained in Prof Ronald Henderson's landmark Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty (1975).
The idea of an arts centre was first mooted in the 1960s but construction, at the then truly enormous cost of £156m, did not begin until 1971.
The Chinese government's own "Great Firewall" – part of the Golden Shield Project first mooted in the late 1990s – is in many respects a hit-and-miss technology.
The idea of the Humber crossing was first mooted in the 1920s.
The concept of the Aouzou Strip was first mooted in 1919, at the Treaty of Versailles, which concluded the war.
The proposal to move the images and change the museum's name were first mooted in 2013 as part of plans to "re-vision" the National Media Museum.
Proposals for free school lunches were first mooted in an independent review of school food, published in the summer.
A new stadium was first mooted in 1999, following the sale of Roots Hall to chairman Ron Martin's property development company.
The plan to speed up the process was first mooted in July and is now been included in the proposed budget of £86m for 2011/12.
www.three.co.uk The X factor Sendo's long-promised smartphone, first mooted in summer 2001, will finally go on sale by the end of the year.
