Sentence examples for proposal and led from inspiring English sources

"It's quite earth-shattering in some ways, because if you look concretely at what it is, it's a transfer of $3 billion from the richest to the bottom-most workers," Seattle's Socialist city councilwoman Kshama Sawant, who won her seat by campaigning for the proposal and led her grassroots army in pushing it through, told me in an interview.

The road to monetary union started at the Hague Summit of 1969, which inspired the Werner Report of 1970 along with many other reports and proposals, and led all the way to the Accord that the European heads of state and government signed in the Dutch town of Maastricht in December 1991.

The proposal failed and led to the ongoing budget cuts because of sequestration.

The committee said the targets would prevent an estimated 74,200 premature deaths a year, 16,200 more than the commission's original proposal, and lead to health savings worth between £28bn and £98bn.

Mr Javid, now Business Secretary, also said Ofcom would be turned from a regulator into a state "censor" by the proposal and lead to comparisons with "regimes" with dubious human rights records, according to the letter which was leaked to The Guardian newspaper.

The Parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, a pragmatic conservative and rival to Mr. Ahmadinejad, derided the referendum proposal, and had led calls for the smaller, $20 billion subsidy cut.

With student loans, the president put forward a detailed proposal and this led to rapid convergence with the House and the Senate, and a bill on the president's desk (which he signed on Friday).

The sudden fire sale prompted a shareholder proposal and engagement led by Amalgamated Bank with the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trusts as the co-sponsor calling on the company's board to avoid the risk of margin calls going forward by prohibiting the practice.

Bank of America 's proposal received majority support and led to Ken Lewis' loss of his chairmanship.

"The regulator has not only been outmanned, it has been outlobbied," said Representative Richard H. Baker, the Louisiana Republican who has proposed legislation similar to the administration proposal and who leads a subcommittee that oversees the companies.

Travel grants, many offered through the Department of History, offer students a chance to do preliminary research on the proposal and often lead to later success in securing year-long dissertation fellowships.