Sentence examples for proposal to auction from inspiring English sources

The University of London has abandoned its proposal to auction a rare set of early printed editions of William Shakespeare's plays following an outcry by senior figures in theatre and academia.

But one place in which the new Administration has not talked much about drilling is off Florida, where the Interior Department is in the final stages of seeking public comment about a proposal to auction off rights to a six-million-acre field in the Gulf of Mexico.

At the same time, Uninor filed an application in Supreme Court seeking its intervention against the TRAI proposals to auction 2G spectrum.

The government's official immigration advisers have defended proposals to auction off visas giving the right to settle in Britain to the highest bidders.

But he conceded that such a remedy was unlikely to be adopted, for the same reason that proposals to auction off slots or charge higher landing fees at peak times, known as congestion pricing, have run aground.

The proposal called for forcing Microsoft to auction the source code for the Windows operating system to other companies, which would develop and improve it, creating competition in the operating system business.

One proposal for reforming the voucher system is to auction off a fixed number of vouchers per year, and use the proceeds for a prize fund for neglected diseases[ 48].

Rob Manfred, executive vice president of Major League Baseball, agreed, calling the requirement to auction the rights "the most objectionable part" of McCourt's financing proposal.

Other crucial provisions in the states' proposal include forcing Microsoft to give away the source code for its Internet Explorer browser, and to auction its popular Office software to developers who could create versions for the Linux operating system.

When Mr. Flamini saw the proposal, which was sent by Ron Goldfarb, an agent in Washington, he scrambled to prevent the book from going to auction.

He chose to auction it off.