Sentence examples for gambling proposals from inspiring English sources

Instead he has put several gambling proposals on the table.

Several states, including Maryland and Pennsylvania, are also considering gambling proposals to stop chronic budget shortfalls.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the Legislature's top Democrat, said he was "generally pleased" with the governor's budget but concerned about the gambling proposals.

Along with the gambling proposals, state leaders are trying to hammer out a plan that would add approximately $500 million in spending to the stripped-down $80 billion budget passed in August.

The gambling proposal also passed with 60percentt support.

Again unable to get his expanded gambling proposal past the Senate, Beshear attempted to chip away at the Republican majority in that chamber by appointing some Republican senators to lucrative positions in the executive and judicial branches in advance of the 2010 General Assembly.

Two months later, Mr. DeLay helped kill a bill to ban Internet gambling — a proposal that the tribe and Mr. Abramoff's other client feared would hurt their business.

"The model of prohibition and higher taxes has been tried before," Fabian Picardo, the head of the Gibraltar government, comparing gambling tax proposal to the United States' ban against alcohol from 1919 to 1933.

The Republican leader of the Senate, Joseph L. Bruno, has made it clear that his caucus might have to accept the gambling expansion proposal because raising broad-based taxes was out of the question in an election year.

This month in the Bahamas, residents will vote on a referendum to expand legalised gambling – a proposal which faces fervent opposition from local church groups.

Although it is undoubtedly an electoral gamble, the proposal will allow Labour to position itself as more progressive than the SNP ahead of the Scottish Parliament election.