Pending legislation has already been watered down in committee, most seriously with the rejection of a proposal for an independent office to investigate ethics abuses.

"The absence of a good evaluation plan could result in the rejection of a proposal that is an innovative idea with well-described goals and objectives."

The Austrian conscription referendum, 2013 resulted in the rejection of a proposal that would have ended conscription.

She sent lawmakers a letter urging rejection of a proposal by the governor to allow children as young as 14 to hunt big game if they use muzzleloaders.

The rejection of a proposal to introduce Islamic Shariah law came even before it was put to a vote by the 700-member People's Consultative Assembly.

An article on Friday about a New York State advisory panel's rejection of a proposal to test newborns for the virus repeated the error in some editions.

Following the rejection of a proposal to upgrade horse and motor racing facilities in early 2008, the SAJC vacated the premises, moving their home course to Morphettville Racecourse.

Mr. De Silva also said Mr. Mosbacher was concerned over the Japanese rejection of a proposal to place transponders on their vessels so their locations could be tracked by satellite.

The news media had been summoned to the New York Hilton for what most assumed would be hard and fast rejection of a proposal that had been floated by the players union on Thursday.

There was general agreement that the subject matter for publication should be "Irish and Anglo-Irish works", the phrase used to explain the rejection of a proposal to publish a collection of essays on Shakespeare.

A headline yesterday about the rejection of a proposal by Walter Cronkite for a prime-time special on the 25th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy attributed the decision incorrectly in some editions.

A1 A budget package before the Senate seemed to have secured passage after passing its crucial first test: the rejection of a proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy, largely out of fear of a Presidential veto.

To the Editor: Your Feb. 10 news article on a New York State Health Department panel's rejection of a proposal for mandatory human immunodeficiency virus testing of all newborns may mislead readers.

But in Suffolk, in a bewildering turn, county officials and environmental groups were at odds over the voters' rejection of a proposal that would have limited borrowing for land and farm purchases under the 0.25 percent sales-tax program, which voters extended last year.

The city will also benefit from the Legislature's rejection of a proposal by Mr. Pataki to have the state pick up more of the costs of prescription drugs in return for local governments' picking up a greater share of hospital bills.

There were also plans for the Asylum to cater to the needs of the entire Straits Settlements and hence the rejection of a proposal to build an Asylum in Malacca for lunatics there (Lee 1978, p. 201).

Not a Hit With Everyone The New Jersey Governor-elect, Christine Todd Whitman, took some ribbing this week on a rather sensitive issue: her rejection of a proposal to lure the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team to Camden.

On another key organization matter, Gorbachev managed to secure rejection of a proposal that the mandates of the congress delegates should be extended for five years (thus giving them control of extraordinary congresses or conferences called in the period before the next scheduled congress).

After the rejection of a proposal to conserve the eleven species of Isidrogalvia with a new type, Harperocallis was instead revived with a broader circumscription to include the eleven New World species previously treated as Isidrogalvia.

The London Assembly was the first of these, established in 2000, following a referendum in 1998, but further plans were abandoned following rejection of a proposal for an elected assembly in North East England in a referendum in 2004.

In Suffolk County, where voters have repeatedly backed town, county and state initiatives to preserve farms and open space, there was disagreement over the impact of the voters' rejection of a proposal to set limits on borrowing to acquire farms and open space.

While indignant, China so far has taken only minor steps in retaliation against the United States: the withdrawal from talks on the spread of arms, the rejection of a proposal for a Chinese-American human rights commission, and the effective suspension of a rather feeble discussion on human rights.

The main Italian newspapers led on NATO's rejection of a proposal by Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema that the bombing should stop if there is agreement in the U.N. Security Council on a Kosovo resolution supported by both Russia and China.

A UNITED NATIONS budgetary committee has called on Unicef to reconsider its rejection of a proposal by New Rochelle to build a new headquarters for the agency, known as the Children's Fund, as part of a projected United Nations community district.