Sentence examples for proposal to rate from inspiring English sources

"Letter grades are nothing more than a scarlet letter that will keep people from eating out," Geoff Kravitz, a spokesman for the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, said Friday at the first public hearing called to consider the city's proposal to rate restaurant cleanliness with letter grades.

Scientists came up with a proposal to rate their degree of confidence in conservation recommendations in order to help managers weigh the options.

The second federal proposal to "rate" colleges and universities fared about the same.

The proposal plans to rate colleges before the 2015 school year based on measures like tuition, graduation rates, debt and earnings of graduates, and the percentage of lower-income students who attend.

A proposal to select rating agencies based on their timeliness and accuracy passed the Senate during the financial reform debate, but intense lobbying by the major rating agencies reduced this initiative to a watered-down feasibility study by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Much of what is known about past negotiations comes from Time Warner Cable: that it agreed on an MSG proposal to raise rates by 6.5 percent only to see MSG renege and demand a 53 percent hike.

The proposal to shift rates in this way was first made in 2008.

A proposal to allow rates to be negotiated individually with providers, by contrast, has the backing of less than 30 members, predominantly conservative Blue Dogs.

With a 12-2 vothe the council gave its go-ahead to the Department of Water and Power's proposal to boost water rates 4.7% and power rates 3.86% each year for five years.

Last year, the trustees rejected Mr. Milligan's previous proposal, to lower the rate to 7.5 percent.

So any proposal to avoid a rate increase is, whatever its proponents may say, a proposal that we let the 1 percent off the hook and shift the burden, one way or another, to the middle class or the poor.