President George W Bush first proposed a defence shield in Europe, which had incensed Russia.
The concept that stem cells run-amok may fuel cancer's spread was first proposed in the 1960s.
Or so the theory of the Uncanny Valley, first proposed by Japanese roboticist Masihiro Mori, goes.
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Saving money is one justification for the first proposed reform, which deals primarily with restricting wiretaps.
The Thameslink scheme was first proposed in 1991, when it was optimistically known as Thameslink 2000.
When it was first proposed, the benefit-to-cost ratio was too slim to persuade the Treasury.
The rules were first proposed in 2008 but never implemented, creating some confusion over which standards applied.
But perhaps it will provoke some thought, as it seemed to do when I first proposed it.
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Changes to the legislation were first proposed ten years ago, and a decision in March was delayed.
In contrast to most other bank bosses, Mr Horta-Osorio supported the ring-fence when it was first proposed.
The camera idea was first proposed by Home Office counter-terrorism officers in April 2009, Mr Khan said.
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The government rejected the plan when it was first proposed by PCG more than a year ago.
Canning Fok, managing director of telecoms giant Hutchison Whampoa, Mannesmann's biggest shareholder, has testified that he first proposed the bonuses.
The existence of the Higgs boson was first proposed in the 1960s by Edinburgh University physicist Peter Higgs.
It was in September 2009 that China first proposed creating the international centre under the auspices of UNESCO.
When the UK government first proposed such an agreement, he suggested it was an affront to Scottish democracy.
But the idea dates back to the early 1970s, when economist Friedrich Hayek first proposed the denationalisation of currencies.
The secret of the Duke device is a spherical lens, a design first proposed in the late 19th century.
George Bush's road map for peace drew on ideas first proposed by Joschka Fischer, then the German foreign minister.
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Israel rejected the plan when Saudi Arabia first proposed it in 2002, at the height of the Palestinian uprising.
Bengen recently tested this formula against the decades of data that have accumulated since he first proposed the idea.
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Climate change was first proposed as a consequence of human activity in 1895.
Dr Weinstein notes that, when the League was first proposed, an opinion poll showed that Americans overwhelmingly supported it.
But the measure, first proposed by put forward by Chancellor George Osborne at last year's Conservative conference, has met strong resistance.
The site on Sinfin Lane, which would burn more than 190, 000 tonnes of waste a year, was first proposed in 2009.
The reforms, part of what is called the Retail Distribution Review, were first proposed by the FSA back in early 2010.
Cognitive distortions, first proposed by Aaron Beck, are ways that our mind convinces us of something that is not really true.
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The bank levy was actually first proposed to all countries by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a type of insurance scheme.
The bill was first proposed in June, but Katrina spurred its passage.
The GAMM was first proposed in 2005 when the UK held the presidency of the EU and Mr Clarke was home secretary.
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