Such a proposal lacked justification.
Whether it be the opportunity to hire a new faculty member, increase the operating budget, upgrade computers or scientific instruments, or expand the number of graduate assistantships, some formal process of proposal and justification usually will be put in play.
Well before the academic departments engage in a process of proposal and justification, the colleges will have done the same; and the provost -- like the dean on the college level -- will need to weigh the many worthy requests.
A detailed curriculum proposal and justification, building on the material collected as part of the SWOT analysis and the community roundtable, was presented to the university governance for approval.
In the proposal's budget justification section, you must explain why you need each piece of equipment and must justify the overall supply budget.
However, the present proposal is silent on justification.
It is a proposal still looking for a justification".
Obesity was the justification for another proposal, made by Mr. Newsom in December, to charge big stores a fee when they sold drinks with high-fructose corn syrup.
It is also the essence of the justification behind the proposal to increase the minimum wage modestly (E.J. Dionne thinks too modestly) to $9.00 from its current rate of $7.25.
Two paragraphs were altered in the final bill in a bid to reassure critics that the proposal would not give Mr. Bush justification for military action, including one that said the United States policy should be to "combat, contain and roll back" Iranian activities inside Iraq.
