Unlike past proposals, this regime would be optional, running alongside, rather than replacing, existing national rules.

The plan, by the city's Department of Transportation, has tentative support from the business groups who blocked past proposals that were much more ambitious.

A past proposal even considered incorporating one of the rings in the middle of a traffic round-about.

Unlike the reaction to past proposals, many educators and leaders of teachers' unions have expressed support for the broad outlines of this plan.

She called his past proposals empty, cynical attempts to find his way to the governor's chair.

The proposals, which the Assembly is expected to pass next week, go beyond past Democratic proposals.

The fight over borrowing can seem petty to voters, part of the general dysfunction of a place that often cannot get past proposals and positioning.

But it remained unclear how such a draft would differ from past proposals.

The practical effects of our past proposals have been rather small.

Unlike past proposals focusing on poor people, the coalition plan also covers middle-class needs.