Sentence examples for table a plan from inspiring English sources

Within days of the attacks, Wolfowitz was spearheading efforts to put on the table a plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, who is meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders separately in the Middle East this week, is preparing to table a plan to push forward stagnating peace talks between the two sides, according to reports.

In 2010, Murdoch was forced to table a plan to spin off Sky News to satisfy media plurality issues raised by Ofcom, a deal that was accepted by the government.

Johnson used the summit to table a plan, agreed beforehand in bilateral talks with the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, that targeted sanctions could be applied to senior military figures deemed responsible for last week's devastating chemical attack.

The company suffered a setback when the financial crisis forced it to table a planned initial public stock offering.

One can speak, for example, of planning a table or tabling a plan, booking a place or placing a book, lifting a thumb or thumbing a lift.

LOS ANGELES — For Comcast, it was a hard lesson in movie industry politics: on Wednesday its Universal Studios unit, under severe pressure from theater owners, suddenly tabled a plan to allow the early release on video-on-demand of its forthcoming film "Tower Heist" in two test markets.

The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has tabled a plan for Nominet, which oversees.uk web addresses, to be given the domain closing power.

Scientists in France are up in arms after the government unexpectedly tabled a plan to cut €256 million from the country's research funds for this year.

► "Scientists in France are up in arms after the government unexpectedly tabled a plan to cut €256 million from the country's research funds for this year," Tania Rabesandratana reported Thursday.

Two broad general ideas were on the table -- a plan by Roosevelt's old friend and secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, to break Germany up into several small, pastoral states of yeoman farmers; and a more conventional proposal to get Germany quickly back onto its feet as a bulwark against the territorial appetite of a victorious Soviet Union.