"We are always willing to consider other credible plans the district might put forward to meet our objectives".
Had he won Senate confirmation, his past financial ties would have provided a handy target for critics of any plans he might put forward.
Let's pause to recall once again what did happen: Justice Scalia's body wasn't even in the ground before Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said he would refuse to consider any nominee President Obama might put forward.
For the tribunal episode, Charles D. Holland, the script writer and a graduate of Harvard Law School, drew out of his former professor, Alan M. Dershowitz, the most cogent arguments that a terrorist's defense might put forward.
An hour after the death was confirmed, when other politicians were offering condolences to the Scalia family, McConnell issued a statement announcing that the Senate would not allow a vote on any nominee whom President Obama might put forward for the seat.
More recently, however, the White House has given no indication that it might put forward a plan of its own before the Sept. 11 commission completes its work, and administration officials say it is more likely that Mr. Bush and his aides will wait to see what emerges from that panel and from the hearings on Capitol Hill.
There have been suggestions that China, Japan and the two Koreas might put forward a joint bid for either 2030 or 2034.
One might put forward various explanations for the failure of all three experiments in this study to demonstrate consistently increased activation for words relative to objects in left OT, three of which are addressed here.
So we might put it this way.
Right now discreet conversations are taking place between Mr Juncker's office and the various European capitals about who might be put forward and what job each country might like.
In that case, a caretaker prime minister might be put forward.
