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    1. I have to admit that he wasn’t overly bothered when she went away, so maybe it is just as well he didn’t propose, but all the same, it is worrying that he hasn’t settled down


    2. Then I made so bold as to propose my being godmother to her baby daughter, who will be born in a few moths


    3. propose to you but unfortunately, you are not in the least interested? You have every


    4. "So what I propose is that we target one of the impactors with the tangler beam, and see if there is any of this activity in them


    5. 'What you propose is difficult at the moment – it will


    6. Brancetrabble thought it was now a good time to propose his idea


    7. “It would be an excellent thing to do,” returned the grand-vizir, “but how do you propose to do it?”


    8. The department and yourself survive on these children, they help with your salary and your occupation, so what does the mighty department propose to tell me


    9. "What do you propose General Secretary?" asked one of the Ministers sadly


    10. “ Well my friend what if some of us pay and others don't how do propose to cut the hotel in half to facilitate both sides?”

    11. “No fairs fair, it was a draw, however I propose my boy Clipear to take on the goat boys cousin


    12. "I think I should briefly explain what it is we propose to do


    13. The philosopher then comes in to propose that the human mind is programmed to receive, treat, and transmit information communicated to him by a vastly Superior Intelligence


    14. Even with this precaution, too, the money which is borrowed, and which it is meant should not be repaid till after a period of several years, ought not to be borrowed of a bank, but ought to be borrowed upon bond or mortgage, of such private people as propose to live upon the interest of their money, without taking the trouble themselves to employ the capital, and who are, upon that account, willing to lend that capital to such people of good credit as are likely to keep it for several years


    15. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition


    16. “What, do you propose to buy this man off with my dinner? That’s all I carry in the


    17. things continued well for another year or two, she intended to propose a small workshop to


    18. Which only made it worse that he’d propose


    19. So here's what I propose


    20. To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies, and leave them to elect their own magistrates, to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war, as they might think proper, would be to propose such a measure as never was, and never will be, adopted by any nation in the world

    21. Should a slave propose any improvement of this kind, his master would be very apt to consider the proposal as the suggestion of laziness, and of a desire to save his own labour at the master's expense


    22. Those systems, therefore, which preferring agriculture to all other employments, in order to promote it, impose restraints upon manufactures and foreign trade, act contrary to the very end which they propose, and indirectly discourage that very species of industry which they mean to promote


    23. ’ ‘Then where is the logic in what you propose? Surely this is about more than the lives of two humans?’


    24. How do you identify the one belief that is the most accurate, with all of these creationist views discounting spontaneous generation of life? How can we identify the truth, if we cannot unequivocally prove through normal experimentation and confirm that the timelines suggested by either Evolution or Creationism are factual? Is there any way in which the scientific method can be applied to this issue to establish with more clarity, which of these views are the most accurate? Where would we begin and what methods would we apply to test our hypotheses? I would like to propose a hypothesis that will assist us in better understanding the subject as we move forward; should we be able to provide some provable facts to support the hypothesis


    25. General Grant replied, “The terms I propose are those stated


    26. , I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of


    27. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it


    28. Was he finally going to propose?


    29. "I propose we all help Betty wash the dishes!" cried Rosamond Howitt


    30. I would like to propose a hypothetical question to the progressive reader: If given a choice, which of the following options would you choose: having been created in God‘s (own) Image or having descended from the apes? Should you choose the former, how come so many of you are willing to embrace evolutionary arguments that have been widely discredited rather than entertain the Divine Wisdom of scriptural teachings that offer a more plausible explanation for our existence? Why restrict your beliefs to worldly perceptions or ideas encumbered by the limits of your (finite) senses rather than explore the wondrous miracle of the human imagination, both moral and intellectual, or ―a capacity for self-transcendence‖ (Reinhold Niebuhr) uncommon among the Beast?

    31. Adlai Stevenson, his opponent in the 1952 and 1956 elections, was one of two leaders to propose it


    32. Three squadrons, one of Bristol Fighters, one of Camels and one of SE-5a fighters would be the minimum suitable to carry out the program I propose to work out in conjunction with Air Ministry requirements and other authorities as directed or as the need is identified, or as I deem fit


    33. He was the first to propose nullification, that states could supposedly choose to cancel any national law


    34. How practical was it to ever propose an invasion of the Soviet Union? Russia had beaten Napoleon and Hitler


    35. How to maneuver, how to use the field of fire of the observer’s gun, and how to use the gun in the nose; is what I propose to teach you


    36. “What do you propose then, sir? We don’t have the kind of equipment you are suggesting


    37. Celia hoped he could also propose some solution, some idea that would bring hope instead of the gloomy despair and doubt that seemed to hang in the air


    38. He believed he was beginning to understand what Hilderich was about to propose and he did not relish the thought


    39. I am now ready to propose that Jesus spoke as a prophet when he predicted the destruction of the Temple of God in Jerusalem


    40. I additionally propose that Jesus’ death upon the cross, was and is a parable, a simplified example, standing in place of something of far wider worldly significance

    41. I would guess, with the mechanism in place, that the Party whose candidates ultimately win the national election would propose at least modest expenditure cuts


    42. The ghost of Gnosticism’s former influence can still be seen in the rejected apocryphal writings that are being rediscovered today, largely it would seem by “conspiracy theorists,” and through popular books that seem to propose similar wild imaginings as had been done in Jesus time


    43. In the coming months, EPA is expected to propose


    44. I propose that 45% of the net sum will accrue to you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses


    45. If the location we propose is correct, he must have had great influences of Babylon


    46. “So why then have there been fewer killings? I would propose it might be because more and more states have allowed capital punishment over this same time period


    47. So, I propose there is a cause and effect between increased use of capital punishment, deterrence, and a drop in the homicide—”


    48. “I propose a toast to the eventual discovery of the biological in space


    49. She had come to the manse to propose a certain thing to the minister and she meant to lose no time in proposing it


    50. Therefore, we propose that in order to eliminate conflict, we must eliminate the disconnect among those with differences by correcting the lack of understanding that arises from ignorance with knowledge










































    1. Now, I’m not going to force you to take up the offer, but at least come and have a look at what’s being proposed … and possibly make it up with Stephen?’


    2. Then he turned to another disciple and proposed her correcting my translation, so that the text will return to its original style


    3. They proposed buying a corridor thru the wild chaparral to connect their lands and Ernesto was arriving with a delegation of his sons to discuss it


    4. King Khama: The African Abe Lincoln is a proposed


    5. Archaeologists excavating a trash pit at the An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an Jamestown colony site in Virginia have found the African tribe


    6. To think I’d been concerned at Gilla’s apparent lack of enthusiasm for the proposed marriage! And you thought she was making the best of a bad job, settling for any man rather than none at all, Lintze! You idiot! Her delighted welcome for Caderl certainly knocks that idea on the head


    7. They were suffering from the combined effects of thumping heads, dehydration and the bile churning nerves that accompany deeds such as the one they proposed to execute that morning


    8. A year or so after the event on the street corner the government proposed the setting up an immigration processing centre in the borough where Miss Jones lived


    9. If it had been hacked he would have probably proposed marriage to her already


    10. do it himself, Burr proposed that diseases could be

    11. accompany deeds such as the one they proposed to execute that


    12. 'I’m going to have to see if there are any articles in the newspaper archives about the proposed conversion of the house - there must have been something


    13. Dawn’s dad remembered it very clearly … another example of Bunty’s charisma in action, I wonder? Anyway, the opposition was led by a Mr Gosford whom I happen to know proposed to Bunty in an attempt to get his hands on her property


    14. ‘Bunty wrote about his proposal in her diary … he was quite offensive when he proposed, didn’t even pretend that he cared about her, and he was considerably older than she was as well, so goodness only knows what he thought he was offering her


    15. Met her in the July, proposed in October and we were married just before Christmas


    16. day that Brad proposed to Lizzie, here in this very room, dropping to


    17. firmly offer them advice that their proposed trip simply isn’t


    18. He later learned that one of the innovations Fred proposed to


    19. “Did they call it off? Was it postponed until more candidates might arrive?” He proposed


    20. I have proposed to Mrs

    21. If required this can go on ad infinitum and never truly end, at least according to the postulated maxims of Zeno of Thrace who proposed that if you continue to halve the distance between yourself and your destination you will never arrive at your destination


    22. ‘What surprises me is that he proposed by e-mail … I mean, it’s hardly romantic


    23. Two days later Harold and Chloe separately contacted Harry through telegram of their pure delight at the proposed Honeymoon destination


    24. It took him about three hours to configure and load the machines with written and graphical material of the proposed heist


    25. ‘He should agree because what you proposed to do


    26. what you have proposed, so the opposite of the


    27. not proposed really seems absurd


    28. The plans and projects of the employers of stock regulate and direct all the most important operation of labour, and profit is the end proposed by all those plans and projects


    29. “The new law you proposed was very interesting


    30. If the church proposed to itself to be the

    31. next phase of the dream, I was proposed to


    32. tried and have proposed 300 with taxes


    33. Stenarch proposed a charge of treason against me


    34. The project of replenishing their coffers in this manner may be compared to that of a man who had a water-pond from which a stream was continually running out, and into which no stream was continually running, but who proposed to keep it always equally full, by employing a number of people to go continually with buckets to a well at some miles distance, in order to bring water to replenish it


    35. By establishing a bank of a particular kind, which he seems to have imagined might issue paper to the amount of the whole value of all the lands in the country, he proposed to remedy this want of money


    36. The parliament of Scotland, when he first proposed his project, did not think proper to adopt it


    37. The principles upon which it was founded are explained by Mr Law himself, in a discourse concerning money and trade, which he published in Scotland when he first proposed his project


    38. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed


    39. who proposed to Stalin, and he accepted the


    40. proposed to her in school, but she wouldn’t even look at them

    41. Although it was his birthday, he proposed me to


    42. “What happened?” Isis proposed the question all of us were afraid to ask


    43. Ash didn't falter at the inconvenience the stars proposed


    44. They were introduced to preserve a certain lineal succession, of which the law of primogeniture first gave the idea, and to hinder any part of the original estate from being carried out of the proposed line, either by gift, or device, or alienation; either by the folly, or by the misfortune of any of its successive owners


    45. “Don’t take this wrong Tygo, but I have no intention of spending the holidays with you in the future, especially the way this conversation is going at the moment! And to answer your question, ultimately all planetary organisms come from the same single source, or so it is proposed


    46. Though, for want of such regulations, the society should never acquire the proposed manufacture, it would not upon that account necessarily be the poorer in anyone period of its duration


    47. The Directorate proposed to kill two birds with one stone: the soon to be grads needed a few more days of practicum and the Service didn't have anything on line in the near future for them, the contract was one those 'hands-off' arrangements, so---win-win, right? Of course neither the Service or the Directorate are supposed to meddle with the Contract Board's assignments ever, in the least---and especially not when the operatives in question aren't even trained Lascorii agents


    48. The focus in research, as commonly seen in theories proposed by Michael Ungar and Ann Masten, has centered on two main factors – promoting well-being (i


    49. In fact, he hadn’t even proposed


    50. “No doubt this was where Zarko proposed, wasn’t it?” she whispered to Helez














































    1. But then, what if the person who proposes to you wasn"t real y what you had in mind?


    2. In spite of that, it is something the average guy might serve his girlfriend on the day he proposes marriage


    3. Columella, who reports this judgment of Democritus, does not controvert it, but proposes a very frugal method of inclosing with a hedge of brambles and briars, which he says he had found by experience to be both a lasting and an impenetrable fence ; but which, it seems, was not commonly known in the time of Democritus


    4. and proposes the confrontation of opinions,


    5. The two sorts of restraints upon importation above mentioned, together with these four encouragements to exportation, constitute the six principal means by which the commercial system proposes to increase the quantity of gold and silver in any country, by turning the balance of trade in its favour


    6. To lay extraordinary restraints upon the importation of goods of almost all kinds, from those particular countries with which the balance of trade is supposed to be disadvantageous, is the second expedient by which the commercial system proposes to increase the quantity of gold and silver


    7. It is in this manner that the mercantile system proposes to enrich the whole country, and to put money into all our pockets, by means of the balance of trade


    8. Part of this fund parliament proposes to raise by a tax to be levied in Great Britain ; and part of it by a requisition to all the different colony assemblies of America and the West Indies


    9. Though the encouragement of exportation, and the discouragement of importation, are the two great engines by which the mercantile system proposes to enrich every country, yet, with regard to some particular commodities, it seems to follow an opposite plan : to discourage exportation, and to encourage importation


    10. It discourages the exportation of the materials of manufacture, and of the instruments of trade, in order to give our own workmen an advantage, and to enable them to undersell those of other nations in all foreign markets; and by restraining, in this manner, the exportation of a few commodities, of no great price, it proposes to occasion a much greater and more valuable exportation of others

    11. Hendersen goes up to the members of Sela, thanks them for giving the audience a great show, and then proposes that they


    12. The teacher, instead of explaining to his pupils himself the science in which he proposes to instruct them, may read some book upon it; and if this book is written in a foreign and dead language, by interpreting it to them into their own, or, what would give him still less trouble, by making them interpret it to him, and by now and then making an occasional remark upon it, he may flatter himself that he is giving a lecture


    13. Having demonstrated some of the flaws in the Theory of Evolution and showing that it has no proper scientific foundations for its standpoints - considering facts that go directly against what the Evolution Theory proposes - the only other option available today would be that of Creationism


    14. The Gap Theory proposes that God created a first Heaven and Earth, that these were somehow destroyed and became empty and that he then had to recreate it in the 6-day period as described from verse 2 onwards


    15. Or, if neither of these methods was found convenient, each family might compound for its consumption of this liquor, either according to the number of persons of which it consisted, in the same manner as private families compound for the malt tax in England; or according to the different ages and sexes of those persons, in the same manner as several different taxes are levied in Holland ; or, nearly as Sir Matthew Decker proposes, that all taxes upon consumable commodities should be levied in England


    16. Assessment which has led to the Wildlands Project which proposes to convert one half of the land area


    17. Minsky proposes, indeed, ‘that the construction of each higher level of the mind during childhood and adolescence is accompanied by the development and application of new critics and selectors


    18. To be buried by a person with a theological qualification proposes that all your earthly sins are suddenly forgiven and you are set on your path to heaven


    19. C++ proposes a new feature called inline function


    20. Pierre proposes to his girlfriend, Brittany, during their senior year

    21. He proposes to her in November 2154


    22. John proposes to his girlfriend of three years, who has earned her


    23. Amando proposes to his girlfriend, Fiona, during his junior year


    24. The 80/20 rule essentially proposes that a small amount of effort


    25. We will see what sort of society he proposes for us in the next chapter


    26. proposes that arteries in the temple get inflamed during an attack and


    27. proposes that arteries in the temple get inflamed during an attack and vasoconstriction would reduce


    28. A work of art proposes its own truth, its freedom and its love, which is universal and


    29. proposes: it could be found to be wrong


    30. Nevertheless, some of the things that Cosmo-Art proposes will never be wrong:

    31. Another important idea that Sophia-Analysis proposes with regards to


    32. The fourth law that Sophia-Analysis proposes has to do with a new way


    33. Sophia-Analysis, however, proposes that already at the time of the


    34. The path that Sophia-Analysis proposes to free oneself from false guilt is


    35. The ideal that Sophia-Analysis proposes is the realization of the power of


    36. ‘If we got rid of the lenses,’ neurosurgeon Pribram proposes, ‘we’d experience the interference patterns themselves


    37. Mainstream Science proposes that the brain integrates the patchy and fragmentary bits of information on the retina available in successive fixations into a stable, detailed model or representation


    38. What Sophia-Analysis proposes is to look for wisdom, not the


    39. and stellar or cosmic, and this is what Sophia-Analysis proposes to


    40. 2006, proposes that these bodies are composed of low

    41. This paper proposes that the visible Earth is sitting inside a low density halo of dark plasma, within which


    42. Interpretation: The Three of Cups proposes intoxicating height s of


    43. proposes the other three animals that they unit an form a band: he plays the flute, the dog plays the drums, the cat takes care of the serenades and the cock, obviously, becomes the singer


    44. proposes appears to hold promise for the development of an alternative explanation for


    45. employee proposes, as long as it is acceptable all round


    46. tivate, be abstinent, and give up normal sexual life with their spouses in order to gain Consummation; but on the other hand, he proposes to promote "Consummation" through "Male-Female Dual Cultivation


    47. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bullfight


    48. proposes guidelines that overwhelmingly support the teaching and


    49. He proposes that we recognize these gods as false, and that we try to re-


    50. One idea he proposes involves a deep examination of the











































    1. I am proposing to use this to set up and fund a teaching facility attached to the Entertainers Guild that you are forming


    2. “You’re not proposing time travel and that we have been beamed into bodies in ancient Atlantis?”


    3. and set out, proposing to ride one of the local tracks


    4. “I think you know what I’m proposing


    5. Ask any rich man of common prudence, to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who he thinks will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question


    6. The most visionary enthusiasts would scarce be capable of proposing such a measure, with any serious hopes at least of its ever being adopted


    7. Creationism is said to be a religious belief, proposing the existence of humanity, life, the Earth and the Universe as the result of supernatural workings by a supreme being


    8. He wasn’t proposing


    9. “You can’t seriously be proposing we jump


    10. It suddenly dawned on Imbrahim that she was proposing the very thing they’d come all this

    11. Why not simply enforce existing gun laws (already) on the books rather than proposing newer ones whose questionable impact on reducing gun related crimes are likely to produce diminishing results? Such political grandstanding, I suppose, plays well among certain audiences given to theoretical assumptions to critical questions that otherwise require practical solutions


    12. Bush shrewdly avoided even proposing a draft, for it had been such a huge rallying point against the US-Vietnam War


    13. ) New York Congressman Ed Koch, later Mayor of New York, was targeted by Uruguayan secret police in retaliation for his proposing to cut off military aid to the dictatorship


    14. “What you’re proposing to do – putting everything under your own name using the power of attorney – doesn’t take into consideration two things: first, you can’t sign for him to sell to yourself


    15. The Bush administration (July 2008) is proposing to reduce the


    16. other events with the focus of proposing an alternative society


    17. She had come to the manse to propose a certain thing to the minister and she meant to lose no time in proposing it


    18. Nevertheless, a man did not want even the most admirable of women around when he was proposing to another woman


    19. He had at least one serious relationship, proposing to one girl in London, but when he was transferred to New York, he chose his career over her and left


    20. What we are proposing to you is that you seven form a new Council of Wizards for your realm

    21. Elijah: What are you proposing?


    22. With Matt proposing that I bend over and let him shove it in like


    23. He was proposing!!


    24. With the way we feel about each, him proposing was inevitable, the only question was when


    25. So, did you hear about Narayan proposing to me?” She asked


    26. From Roger’s perspective, Josie’s perception of their married life was a sad distortion of a confused and angered woman, for less than two years earlier she had written a letter that was published in the “Fullerton Daily News Tribune”, hailing her husband Roger as a true hero, lavishing praises on him and proposing him as a model father because of his exemplary behavior toward her and their children


    27. “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate


    28. The Bush administration (July 2008) is proposing to reduce the environmental reviews that are required and the environmentalists are objecting


    29. Specifically, EPA is proposing to strengthen the 8-hour "primary" ozone standard


    30. I remember in one of our board meetings, I was sitting next to my mother, and while other family members were proposing some unusual environmental grants, my mother shook her head and whispered to me, “If your father were here, he wouldn’t believe this

    31. we’re proposing to do


    32. What you’re proposing to do here is exactly – exactly –


    33. This dilutes the very objective of the debate, and the ‘liberal’ thus avoids the necessity of proposing positive ideas and discussion


    34. Because the seller is often proposing answers to problems, several services or products are submitted as the solution


    35. I was once presenting to a client who said, “Tell me what you are proposing again and how your solution will sound better to my team versus your competition


    36. (As a reminder I am not declaring that every person who goes to Hades now will be saved, or even have a chance at being saved, I am simply proposing questions for you to consider in your own relationship with God


    37. This is the project I am proposing


    38. Don’t tell me that I am proposing a new religion, because it would not be


    39. perfect person to write the book you're proposing


    40. He took rejection better than Edgar, who was still plaintively proposing we flee to the colonies and start a touring theatrical company

    41. Stop Abuse for Every Teen Act or SAFE Teen Act As Congress considers reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, advocates and concerned parents are proposing a marker bill entitled “Stop Abuse for Every Teen Act” or the “SAFE Teen Act


    42. 9 What a scene for the celestial intelligences to behold, this spectacle of the Indian lad proposing to the Creator of a universe that they make a new religion! And though the young man did not know it, they were making a new and everlasting religion right then and there -- this new way of salvation, the revelation of God to man through, and in, Jesus


    43. Was he proposing something? She couldn't tell


    44. As the question of his proposing to her raised doubts afresh in his mind, he went back to square one in the tantalizing game of ‘hide and seek’ of love


    45. Models proposing that psychological balance can be achieved by introducing the father


    46. Another important difficulty is that the feminist theorists who are proposing a change


    47. Since Peter so revered and honored Jesus in his heart, it was not strange that his soul resented the thought of Jesus' kneeling there before him in the attitude of a menial servant and proposing to wash his feet as would a slave


    48. And now that this crowd had come before him to ask for the release of a prisoner, and since Jesus had so recently been in great favor with the multitudes, it occurred to Pilate that he might possibly extricate himself from his predicament by proposing to this group that, since Jesus was now a prisoner before his judgment seat, he release to them this man of Galilee as the token of Passover good will


    49. What I am proposing is that in actuality the reverse of that simple phrase is true: believing is seeing


    50. What I am proposing is that the eye is a camera that filters out most of the electromagnetic spectrum to only record visible light, and that the camera is controlled by the photographer who chooses consciously or unconsciously what to photograph













































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    Synonyms for "propose"

    project propose aim purport purpose advise suggest declare oneself offer pop the question nominate propound prefer present volunteer proffer name design mean plan posit state

    "propose" definitions

    make a proposal, declare a plan for something


    present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.


    propose or intend


    put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position


    ask (someone) to marry you