The committee selected the elaborate proposal of the renowned architect Charles Freeman, at the time an officer in the Public Works Department.
He again wrote to Germain on December 20, 1776 with more elaborate proposals for 1777.
Seven days after the "moolah" message, however, Mr. Abramoff sent the Tigua tribe an elaborate proposal that it pay him to help reopen the casino.
While Camden was closer, Allentown had a more elaborate proposal which helped secure Allentown's bid for the team.
Raoul Lionel Felder, the Manhattan divorce lawyer, cautioned that elaborate proposals can spell trouble.
By the same token, Mr. Longman's own proposals for reforming our welfare state sometimes sound unworkable, overly elaborate or even bizarre.
The most elaborate and controversial proposal is the establishment of disciplinary academies where any student caught with a weapon at school would be sent automatically for at least a year.
He pulled off that elaborate proposal.
Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough to get Hashiyama's business.
As members of a federal advisory commission in 1998 and 1999, Senators Frist and Breaux devised an elaborate proposal to promote competition in the Medicare market.
