Sentence examples for proposed a cap from inspiring English sources

Andrew Dilnot had proposed a cap of around £35,000.

In July, it proposed a cap on interest rates.

Putting up a modest resistance, the State Department proposed a cap of fifty thousand.

THE NEWS Mr. Obama proposed a "cap and trade" system to reduce carbon dioxide releases.

The Department of Homeland Security last week proposed a cap of 40,000.

The European Commission had proposed a cap of €300,000 a year.

Research by the Water in the West urban water policy team proposed a cap-and-trade approach to water conservation based on local supply and demand realities.

In 2007 a group called USCAP, made up of environmental organisations and companies that wanted legislation, proposed a cap-and-trade bill, and Waxman-Markey looks a lot like their proposal.

Only a few years ago, it seemed possible to be both a Republican in good standing and a serious environmentalist; during the 2008 campaign John McCain warned of the dangers of global warming and proposed a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, has proposed a cap-and-trade approach to greenhouse-gas emissions involving other western states, and a similar scheme is being developed by a group of nine north-eastern states; with luck, this will eventually prod the federal government into action.

During the election campaign, both Barack Obama and John McCain proposed a cap-and-trade system for curbing CO2 emissions, not because it would work better than a carbon tax but because it did not have the word "tax" in its name.