Sentence examples for long-standing proposal from inspiring English sources

A long-standing proposal for an oil pipeline from Central Asia to China, which had made little headway because of cost concerns, is back on the table.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on Friday agreed to move forward on a long-standing proposal from a Florida company to create a specialized dot-xxx suffix for adult entertainment Web sites.

The number of domestic passengers increased by around 30% last year.Hence the government's approval, on March 1st, of a long-standing proposal to merge four badly run state-owned carriers, in order to make them more competitive in a crowded market.

A long-standing proposal to build a new barrier to hold back high tides may also be brought forward.

Each railed against a long-standing proposal that would give taxpayers the option to use pre-filled tax returns.

A long-standing proposal for how surround size might change with different light levels is that it might do so through a change in the gap junctional coupling of horizontal cells.

Created by Robert Steele and Jim Turner based on long-standing proposals by Ralph Nader, with direct inputs by Theresa Amato, Michael Cudahy, Jock Gill, and Christina Tobin.

In New York, where Democrats flipped the state Senate for total control of the government, progressives hope to pass long-standing proposals to expand reproductive and voting rights, and overhaul campaign finance laws.

Mr. Blair accepted a long-standing French proposal calling for a European military force under the aegis of the European Union capable of conducting military operations independently of NATO.

At the international level, that means promoting capital controls (something the IMF now seems ready to do), implementing a financial transaction tax (something the EU is now actively pursuing), and designing a sovereign debt workout mechanism that deals fairly with lenders and borrowers alike (a long-standing Unctad proposal).

Mr Clegg, who is Mr Cameron's coalition partner, renounced a long-standing Lib Dem proposal to grant an amnesty to longtime illegals.