Sentence examples for it has been floated from inspiring English sources

It has been floated, he says, that the UK could escape its obligations without leaving the treaty by the simple expedient of insisting that parliament be required to approve any judgment that is unfavourable to the UK.

It has been floated in other quarters that the recent repeal of the 'Ley Beckham' (Beckham Law), limiting the amount of tax payable by foreign footballers in their first six years in Spain, may also put his nose out of joint.

There is no firm draft of the drought contingency plan, but the gist of it has been floated at meetings for several weeks.

It has been floating out there in the ether of diplomatic possibilities ever since.

Yet earlier this month, John Taylor, the top international man at the Treasury, shot down the latest version of the plan only a day after it had been floated.

The owner had previously been reported as saying he received a phone call from North Korea telling him his boat had been in North Korean waters, but that he was certain it had been floating in Chinese waters.

It had been floating about as an acting job for years, he says, and there was nothing doing until a Canadian producer friend told him about a "Glasgow script" he should read, and "it was Barney Thomson, again.

"If it had been floating around for 5 months [in the DRC], then it would have [already] spread up and down the river," he said.

The idea of banning it in the UK has been floated more than once most notably by Tony Blair's administration—and Taji Mustafa, a UK spokesperson for HT, has been described as a "preacher of hate" by members of the Australian government, which wanted to ban him from the country.

"What has been floated, it would be such a piddling improvement it's laughable," said Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee.

It is an assertion that has been floated frequently in recent years, and one which some players have taken in stride, while others have struggled.