But they cannot distract him from the equally important obligation to strengthen the administration's timid and legally suspect proposals for regulating mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
22. (C) Gottwald continued that NAM states also suspect that proposals for multilateral fuel-cycle arrangements may not be fair, though many of them do afford equal treatment, not conditioning access to recipients' giving up the right to sensitive facilities.
Many officials here apparently suspect that the proposal is secretly aimed at China.
So there are reasons to suspect that the proposal made by PhRMA on September 7th, for a new, voluntary database, is less good than it sounds.
Israeli officials say they suspect Mr. Assad's proposal may be a ploy to gain the favor of the United States, which has threatened Syria with sanctions if it continues supporting terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah, which maintains rocket installations along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron said that the Queen's Speech was "very substantial", telling the BBC's World at One: "I suspect the pensions proposals will be around for a generation or more and will be remembered.
The real genesis of this proposal, I suspect, is that Wyden just believes this is the right direction for Medicare.
It's a somewhat tongue-in-cheek proposal, you suspect, yet it evokes a time when London was prepared to dream.
Even more controversial, I suspect, will be a proposal to extend Medi-Cal coverage to adult immigrants without legal status.
But executives at Beaumont and ProCure said they suspected the collaboration proposal was really an attempt by rival hospitals to slow down their project or kill it.
He saw no prospect of going to war with France and therefore no point in promising not to, and he suspected that the proposal was a gimmick designed to commit the United States to intervening on France's behalf if Germany attacked it (as Germany did in 1914).
