Sentence examples for proposition to raise from inspiring English sources

In March California's voters endorsed a ballot proposition to raise $2 billion for a range of water projects through bonds.

"The opposition is spending a lot of money spreading inaccurate information about Proposition 23, which is why we want supporters of the proposition to raise funds to get the truth out," he said.

Andrew: In short, making people's lives better - without a clear short term monetization strategy - was an insufficient value proposition to raise capital.

Social enterprise is a relatively new term, but Comic Relief has a long history of developing commercial propositions to raise income for good causes – think of all the red noses we sell.

Hell, I'd welcome a rabid neo-conservative getting into a spat with Keeping about the party's propositions to raise corporate taxes by one-half (from ten percent to 15) or placing a moratorium on future investments into the tar sands until stringent environmental regulations are implemented.

The most familiar element of Proposition 46 is the proposal to raise the cap on "pain and suffering" damages in medical malpractice cases.

And it's a linchpin of the campaign against Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to raise income taxes on income above $250,000, topping out at a 13.3% rate on income over $1 million.

Earlier this year, residents, aided by outside labor organizers, put forward a ballot initiative, Proposition 1, to raise the local minimum wage for some airport and hotel workers, including baggage handlers.

By replicating the case through pattern-matching, a technique linking several pieces of information from the same case to some theoretical proposition has helped to raise the level of confidence in the robustness of the method.

Also receiving payments were the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and its executives, leading backers of Proposition 89, an initiative to raise corporate taxes and create public campaign financing.

Last fall, the issue came to a head over Proposition C, a tax measure to raise funds for homeless services.