Sentence examples for proposals down from inspiring English sources

But for 2016, the panel has received about 100 prescreened proposals, down from last year by 20%.

A special euro currency sign was designed after a public survey had narrowed the original ten proposals down to two.

After lobbying by local environmentalists, parliament batted the cabinet's proposals down.

The Sierra Club and other environmental groups have launched anti-coal campaigns, drumming up local support to shut the terminal proposals down.

This arrangement becomes painfully obvious at election time, when Republicans typically grandstand for the far right by ramming outrageous proposals down the throats of the city's overwhelmingly Democratic voters.

The European Space Agency ESAA) has narrowed a field of 27 proposals down to three in a search for its next medium-sized mission.

In the next round of proposals, down-selected firms will be issued a prototype task order, which requires them to build actual prototypes and mockups.

But the rest of the panel, chosen by Mr. Bloomberg, voted the proposal down, prompting accusations that the majority members were puppets of the administration.

Overall, the budget reductions may mean some job losses: The agency's total number of full time equivalent positions would drop to 12,222 under the budget proposal, down from 12,388 this year.

This would be the moment when Congress starts the long process of watering this proposal down, gouging its funding and probably filibustering it.

ThinkProgress went on to note that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to do exactly that, but the courts struck his proposal down and now, Oh God, New Yorkers will keep drinking lots of soda and, presumably, keep dying from sugary drinks.