As a first time proposal, this resolution received 34% support.
The problem was that reviewers tended to give lower scores to the first-time proposals but eventually recommended funding them on the second or third try.
A shareholder proposal to ban Disney's independent auditing firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, from providing lucrative consulting services gained 40percentt of the votes cast, an unusually high number for a first-time proposal.
Households would be able to choose their water supplier for the first time under proposals from Ofwat which it claims would cut bills and improve services by introducing competition.
All select committee chairmen are to be elected by MPs for the first time under proposals tabled by Tony Wright, the outgoing chair of the parliamentary reform select committee and due to be implemented in full by Sir George Young, the new leader of the Commons.
This is the first time a proposal has been made to withdraw an approval for an antimicrobial used in agriculture because of associated emergence of resistance in humans.
Learner drivers could be allowed on motorways for the first time, under government proposals aimed at increasing road safety.
In a bargaining session last Friday with the Municipal Labor Coalition, the city for the first time outlined its proposals for $600 million in benefit concessions.
After hopes of filibuster-proof Senate passage effectively died with the loss in January of Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, the President on Monday put forward for the first time his own proposals, raising the stakes even higher.
President Clinton publicly described for the first time his specific proposals on how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and acknowledged that a final settlement would not occur on his watch, in a farewell address to the American Jewish community.
The Mets continued discussions with Seattle executives yesterday regarding the compensation that would be necessary for the Mets to speak with Mariners Manager Lou Piniella, and for the first time, they exchanged proposals that included players' names.
