1.   Butler floated proposals for a number of films.

2.   Mr Straw planned to float the proposals this week in a speech in Lisbon on the eve of the EU summit.

3.   Amazingly enough, Bush supports tax breaks for the computer industry, has even floated a proposal to make Canada a subsidiary of Microsoft.

4.   At least two proposals had been floated to build aquariums at Stone Mountain Park and near Turner Field.

5.   Berlusconi, meanwhile, is working mostly from off stage, leaving his deputies to float various proposals and sometimes to take the blame for them.

6.   A senior Russian envoy has been in Baghdad floating compromise proposals on inspections that have been rejected by both the United States and Iraq.

7.   Britain and France are floating proposals to revamp world financial institutions.

8.   But the department has no money for the South Mountain Freeway, although a private consortium is floating a proposal to build it as a toll road.

9.   Demand for luxury rental apartments here is strong enough that developers are floating proposals after a decade-long absence of new buildings.

10.   He was floating a proposal that would permit people to register domestic partnerships with city government.