Experts say that while the approval process led by President Daniel Ortega has been swift, environmental opposition, changes in shipping patterns and construction costs could easily thrust the proposal onto the large list of discarded plans for a Nicaraguan canal.
So far, Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, both Democrats, have scuttled Republican efforts to attach the proposal onto unrelated legislation where critics would get little opportunity to amend its punitive provisions.
The possibility of deploying our proposal onto a LTE-WiMAX infrastructure is discussed in this research work [20].
I've been trying to get my proposal onto his desk for weeks, with spectacular unsuccess.
I've called in personal favors in an attempt to get my proposal onto the desk of Mayor Bloomberg in New York (one of the few people in this situation with demonstrated backbone).
There are proposals to push losses onto their creditors, although until these look sturdier banks should continue to be charged a levy on their debts and prodded to reduce them further.These points are difficult for politicians to make.
The cheapest of Dalrymple-Hay's proposals, to transfer the footpaths onto stone corbels projecting from the sides of the bridge thus freeing the entire width for vehicle traffic, was rejected on aesthetic grounds, and a proposal to widen the bridge on both sides was rejected as impractical.
Within a day, Joe Wierzbicki, a senior associate at Mr. Russo's firm, Russo Marsh & Associates in Sacramento, sketched out a proposal to latch onto the nascent Tea Party movement, according to internal e-mails provided to The New York Times.
Here is a proposal to get onto that money train.
Under the town's proposal, driving onto the narrow beach, a practice that has rankled environmentalists, surfers and federal officials, would be prohibited.
