Sentence examples for palatable proposal from inspiring English sources

"No one foresaw this event, with the pension fund going down and all of a sudden a 3.5 percent raise to retired people," said Thomas J. O'Connor, head of the powerful firefighters' union and a participant in a group of city leaders and union officials trying to come up with a more palatable proposal to trim the city's employee costs.

The presidential climate debate has been blurred as John McCain offers palatable proposals.

Even if he can find a proposal palatable to the GOP, the idea may be doomed on his own side of the aisle.

Mr. LeMoyne, a special United Nations representative to Colombia, met with rebels here in Los Pozos, a hamlet used for negotiations, to try to come up with a proposal palatable to both sides.

In order to make the proposal palatable to the King, Las Casas had to incorporate the prospect of profits for the royal treasury.

More firmly than before, western governments reckon that diplomatic exchanges with Russia are likelier to bear fruit if NATO holds its ground and avoids bending too far in order make its peace proposals palatable to the Kremlin.

Greece raced to come up with bailout proposals palatable to its international lenders Monday before its banks run out of money and the country slides closer to a chaotic default and exit from the Eurozone.

"I think we will be back in a couple of days with a proposal more palatable to more members," said Representative John Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat who voted against the plan.

Where is the man who worked with Sen. Wyden to make his reform proposals more palatable to the center-left?

But that history did not make track proposal any more palatable to many people.

One proposal, more generally palatable to the industry, would impose airspace fees as an alternative to the current ticket surcharge for financing the air-traffic control network.