Sentence examples for promoting proposals from inspiring English sources

Insurers have an interest in covering more people, and a number of insurance executives are promoting proposals for universal coverage.

More picnics followed in 1878, promoting proposals which would come to be collectively called the "National Policy": high tariffs, rapid construction of the transcontinental railway (the Canadian Pacific Railway or CPR), rapid agricultural development of the West using the railroad, and policies which would attract immigrants to Canada.

We moderates consider that Parliament is adopting the wrong approach in today's vote in promoting proposals to block and limit trade.

In contrast, as Tuesday's election approaches, you probably have not received any literature promoting Proposal 6. Proposal 6 would have asked the voters whether they wanted to create a Charter Commission to study the possibility of reducing the average number of children in public-school classes in New York City.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain said in Parliament on Wednesday that he would "promote proposals for an embargo on all arms to Zimbabwe," without giving further details.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain said Wednesday in Parliament that he would "promote proposals for an embargo on all arms to Zimbabwe".

Rising frustration with gas prices has led two presidential candidates, Senators John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton, to promote proposals to suspend the federal gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Neil Kinnock's manifesto snuck in a commitment to bolster the widely promoted proposal for a non-enforceable charter of rights with "a complementary and democratically enforced bill of rights" to "establish in law the specific rights of every citizen".

The new spending is not large, yet promoting the proposals has consumed his political capital.

The President spent the rest of the week promoting his proposals for improving education and for a hugely regressive tax cut.

— After unexpectedly endorsing same-sex marriage and injecting a volatile social issue into the 2012 race, President Obama returned to the topic of the economy Friday, promoting his proposals to allow more Americans to get low-interest mortgage refinancing.