In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

But when this proposal was made to his Deacon Board, he met unanimous opposition.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

It was nothing that he said or did, but it seemed so natural to her that she should be working for him, looking forward to his eventual proposal.

The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

Nobel's first love was in Russia with a girl named Alexandra, who rejected his proposal.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

This proposal, which was understandably appealing to Albert, had already been discussed by some of his relatives ; but it was necessary to proceed cautiously, and he assured Pope Adrian VI that he was anxious to reform the Order and punish the knights who had adopted Lutheran doctrines.

After his marriage proposal to her was rejected, he returned to Raleigh.

The most significant moderate proposal was the Fourteenth Amendment, also written by Trumbull.

Andrew, who was now with Saint Louis, interpreted David's message to the King, a real or pretended offer of alliance from the Mongol general Eljigidei, and a proposal of a joint attack upon the Islamic powers of Syria.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

Herodotus had no Athenian victories to record after the initial success, and the fact that Themistocles was able to carry his proposal to devote the surplus funds of the state to the building of so large a fleet seems to imply that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme effort was necessary.

This proposal was rejected.

Tiberius, perhaps sensitive to this ambition, rejected Sejanus's initial proposal to marry Livilla in 25 AD, but later had withdrawn his objections so that, in 30 AD, Sejanus was betrothed to Livilla's daughter, Tiberius ' granddaughter.

Congress did not fund this proposal, which was later withdrawn.

However, the Russian proposal was withdrawn and Forster left Vilnius.

The State Council acts by virtue of the NPC's authority and there has been at least one case where the NPC has outright rejected an initiative of the State Council and a few cases where the State Council has withdrawn or greatly modified a proposal in response to NPC opposition.

Peter R. Holland has pointed out that, in 1927, Einstein had submitted a preprint with a related proposal but, not convinced, had withdrawn it before publication.

This proposal was withdrawn in the face of opposition.

One proposal, for a 17-story condominium tower, was withdrawn after community opposition to the project.

The first such proposal was withdrawn in 1958, after considerable public protest.

This would have involved establishing a force of 140, 000 paid soldiers, supported by equitable taxes from across the Empire, and has been termed ' the most far-sighted proposal of any statesman of the age '; in practice, however, it met fierce opposition from the various regional assemblies and the plan was withdrawn.

The deliberations of a Royal Commission on traffic in London prevented parliamentary consideration of the proposal, which was withdrawn.

A Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) proposal authorizing citizens initiative rights to propose constitutional amendments was withdrawn after it became clear that such a proposal would not pass the Legislative Yuan.

His policy, which averted political violence and revived the popularity of the crown, was regarded as unpatriotic and reactionary by the Liberals, who resumed office in 1876 ; and a proposal to impeach the whole Catargiu cabinet was only withdrawn in 1878.

This proposal, now withdrawn following a meeting of the Proprietors to which the public was invited for the first time, included architectural and landscaping designs by Yale Architecture School Dean Robert Stern, among the country's most distinguished architects ( who will also be designing the new colleges ).

This proposal was quickly withdrawn by the Home Office, as the government moved to distance itself from the idea.

The new coat of arms was however withdrawn as it was met with heavy criticism from, for example, Adolf Loos and heraldists ; the proposal was seen as too similar to commercial advertising.

It is unknown why this proposal was withdrawn and replaced with the Bush Administration proposal.

The European Commissioner for Justice, Franco Frattini, initially expressed support for the idea, but the proposal was eventually withdrawn because there was no consensus on which symbols to ban.

On 15 September 2006, Imperial announced it was abandoning the plan altogether after support was withdrawn by Ashford Borough Council following widespread complaints from the public, and the publication by save-wye of a hitherto secret map showing the vast extent of the draft development proposal.

A North-South Rail Link is proposed to link North and South Stations, but as of May 2006 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has withdrawn its sponsorship of the proposal due to its high cost.

The next day, however, at a chance meeting with the as-yet-unaware Dick, Maybold withdraws his proposal ; and Fancy, simultaneously, has withdrawn her acceptance.

This facility closed in 1997 .. A proposal to handle asbestos waste at the Asahi site was withdrawn in 2005 due to strong local opposition.

A proposal to add more space to its Yonkers site had been approved as a " regionally significant project " but Kimber appears to have withdrawn its application following concerns raised by worried neighbors.