Sentence examples for proposal dismissed from inspiring English sources

Grayling did not rule out swamping the Lords with new Tory peers, a proposal dismissed by the Conservative MP David Davis as akin to political bullying that would disgust the public.

The deputy prime minister encapsulated this thinking as he boasted of the Lib Dem campaign to raise the personal tax-free allowance to £10,000 from next year – a proposal dismissed by David Cameron during the general election.

But his proposal dismissed Gibson's $17.6 billion request and dramatically chopped funds the Senate bill had set aside for improving VA infrastructure.

Mr. Bush pushed his $1.3 trillion, 10-year tax-cut proposal, dismissing Mr. Gore's criticisms in the first presidential debate that the plan would give too much to the wealthy.

In 2010, Willie Nelson was busted at that checkpoint after the authorities said that about six ounces of marijuana had been found on his bus; a local prosecutor in Hudspeth County, Tex., originally suggested that Mr. Nelson could beat the rap by singing "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" at the courthouse before a judge quickly nixed that proposal, dismissing it as a joke.

BRUSSELS — European Union finance ministers agreed on Tuesday to toughen the fiscal rules for euro zone governments, only to have the proposals dismissed as "insufficient" by the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet. Jean-Claude Trichet

BRUSSELS -- European Union finance ministers agreed Tuesday to toughen the fiscal rules for euro zone governments, only to have their proposals dismissed as "insufficient" by the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet.

In the eighteen-eighties, the Times described the experience of the "suffrage shriekers" who were "contemptuously laughed to scorn," their proposals dismissed as the work of "half-crazy fanatics or weak-minded old women of both sexes".

The proposal was dismissed by the National Union of Teachers.

At one point, this proposal was dismissed as "clutter".

His tax-the-rich proposal was dismissed by his rivals, who said it would never be approved in Albany.