Sentence examples for proposing the first from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, the Obama administration took another important step for public health and the environment, proposing the first nationwide limits on carbon dioxide from new power plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing the first federal limits on air pollution from large oceangoing ships, but environmentalists said the proposal would provide little improvement over today's voluntary standards.

A state environmental agency charged with protecting Lake George is proposing the first use of an herbicide in an Adirondack lake, to fend off an insidious weed that has choked native plants and mired swimmers and boats.

A group of leading international legal scholars and jurists, convinced that more public figures are likely in coming years to face trial for abuses like genocide and crimes against humanity, is proposing the first set of guidelines for such cases.

Second, we tackle the payment allocation aspect of SR, by proposing the first approach that computes kernel-stable payments for systems with thousands of agents.

Local branches of international organizations and European experts are invited to participate in the working groups responsible for elaborating new laws and are quite active in the process, sometimes even proposing the first draft.

He also said Heathrow "got it wrong" when proposing the third runway that was scrapped in 2010.

"He proposed the first night we were over there," she said.

The letter of intent, signed in December 1965, proposed the first delivery in November 1969.

In late April 1943 a Project Y physicist, Seth Neddermeyer, proposed the first serious theoretical analysis of implosion.

The EPA, using its authority under the Clean Air Act, proposed the first rule phase, covering future power plants, last September.