Sentence examples for sponsored the proposal from inspiring English sources

"The mayor uses interesting circular logic," said Patrick Flynn, an Assembly member who sponsored the proposal.

Today, Dick Buckey, one of the councilmen who sponsored the proposal, declined to comment on Tuesday's vote.

Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, who sponsored the proposal, said it was needed to help the United States cope with a growing nursing shortage.

"San Francisco always goes against the grain when there are assaults on people's liberties," said supervisor Eric Mar, who sponsored the proposal.

Then it would be up to the European Union's member states to decide whether to adopt sanctions against the 60 officials, said Heidi Hautala, a member of the Finnish delegation, who sponsored the proposal.

Senator Russ Feingold, a Democrat of Wisconsin who sponsored the proposal that failed Thursday, issued a statement criticizing the Republicans even though 20 of his fellow Democrats also voted against him.

"I don't get any sense that Mizuho takes their shareholders seriously," said Yasushi Nakayama, an individual investor who co-sponsored the proposal.

"Many of our colleagues are concerned that if the commission moves only in parallel legislation that it could falter and not become law," said Doug Bereuter, Nebraska Republican who co-sponsored the proposal.

"There is a significant cost to the city for sponsoring the proposal," he said.

Republican epresentative Sam Mims, chairman of the Mississippi House public health committee, is sponsoring the proposal to ban a procedure he calls "very graphic".

He has been joined in sponsoring the proposal by John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, in the Senate, and Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in the House.