Sentence examples for float a proposal from inspiring English sources

So let me float a proposal borrowed from the business world.

MILAN -- A few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the CIA station chief in Rome paid a visit to the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, Adm. Gianfranco Battelli, to float a proposal: Would the Italian secret services help the CIA kidnap terrorism suspects and fly them out of the country?

They expect to see exorbitant cost increases--for both borrowing and tax accounting--if money market fund net asset values are allowed to float, a proposal being considered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

More puzzlingly, Corbyn floated a proposal for a maximum level of earnings.

His cadre of loyalists is floating a proposal to certify Mr. Mugabe as president for life.

D.C. officials are floating a proposal to redraw elementary school boundaries.

The agency has floated a proposal restricting short-selling — or betting against a stock — in down markets.

Meanwhile, the French banking industry floated a proposal for an orderly restructuring of Greek debt that would involve private investors rolling over their holdings in bonds.

The question has been raised by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, which has floated a proposal to create an internationally accepted credential certifying a certain level of finance expertise.

But the Trump administration has floated a proposal to begin separating asylum-seeking parents from their children, officials told The Washington Post in December.

Today, the Port Authority, citing concerns about safety and overcrowding at that station, is again floating a proposal to open a new entrance/exit on Waverly Place.