Sentence examples for stringent proposal from inspiring English sources

In shaping President Bush's Clear Skies air pollution plan, the White House rejected a more stringent proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The judge's comments suggested she would not dismiss the case on those grounds, but she did ask whether she owed "some amount of deference" to the Justice Department's less stringent proposal.

Forty-five senators and 10 state attorneys general asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to withdraw its proposal on how to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and replace it with a more stringent proposal.

Some Democrats, institutional investors and consumer groups complained that the rules were both tardy and tepid and were intended by industry cheerleaders to head off more stringent proposals for a ban on allowing analysts to work on merger and underwriting business for clients of their investment banks.

To Republicans, there's no need for stringent proposals to limit the consulting activities of accounting firms, sharper restrictions on stock options issued to executives, broad conflict-of-interest rules for stock analysts or greater access to the courts for stockholders.

In the past, China has pushed back on some of the most stringent proposals put forward by the US and other countries, but this year they appeared to give ground, agreeing to severe and punitive measures against its neighbor. .

But Detroit and some foreign automakers have continued to lobby against the most stringent Congressional proposals to raise fuel-economy standards, supporting more modest proposals instead.

The former lobbyist will not be sent behind bars just yet as he is co-operating with a federal investigation in a separate fraud and bribery case, for which he made a plea-bargain deal in January and is yet to be sentenced.Around half a million people demonstrated in Los Angeles against stringent immigration proposals that are being championed by Republicans in Congress.

Mr. Romney's aides are exasperated by the skepticism, because he has formally checked the right conservative boxes, pledging opposition to same-sex marriage, strong support for Israel and the military budget, and embracing the stringent fiscal proposals of Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, a Tea Party favorite.

The government, which has tabled its own watchdog bill, has dismissed elements of Hazare's more stringent and sweeping proposals as unworkable and unconstitutional.

It was the largest demonstration here since a big protest in July forced the government to postpone and later withdraw a proposal for stringent internal security laws.