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Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance

As she watched the sink fill, she considered his proposal - and that other thing.

Everywhere the proposal met with uncompromising resistance.

Even if the proposal had been practicable with waves 1000 or 2000 ft.

Accepting his proposal of marriage might be setting her up for a fall, but declining was surely something she would live to regret.

Of course, a proposal of marriage was something that didn't come easy for him.

It was no surprise that Darcie had accepted his proposal.

The proposal to draw up a new creed was rejected.

Da Bormida, the minister for foreign affairs, resigned nab rather than agree to the proposal, and other statesmen ana the were equally opposed to it.

It was government's proposal to introduce a formalized resettlement program.

It provided that the powers of the light railway commissioners should continue until determined by parliament, and also provided, inter alia, that in cases where the Board of Trade thought, under section (9) subsection (3) of the original act, that a proposal should be submitted to parliament, the Board of Trade itself might submit the proposals to parliament by bringing in a bill for the confirmation of the light railway order, with a special report upon it.

In February 1773 the Royal Society submitted a proposal to the king for an expedition towards the North Pole.

After many expressions of regret at finding no method of giving effect to the proposal, the commission confined itself to recording its opinion that " a further examination of the question by the Powers would prove a great benefit to humanity."

Prussia thus made a bid for the sympathy of the democracy at the same time as she declared war against the dynasties; and her power was revealed by the fact that her veto was sufficient to wreck a proposal seconded by the all but unanimous vote of the German sovereigns.

The negotiations broke downon the refusal of Italy to throw over her ally, and Napoleons proposal of a European congress, to reconsider the whole settlement under the treaties of 1815, proved equally abortive.

It was, however, opposition in the Bundesrat which obliged him to abandon his scheme for imperial railways, and when, in 1877, it was necessary to determine the seat of the new supreme court of justice, the proposal of the government that Berlin should be chosen was out-voted by thirty to twenty-eight in favor of Leipzig.

The total note-issue was fixed by the law of 1875, a proposal being assigned to each bank.

Henry, having agreed to the proposal, entered Rome to receive his crown.

To a proposal made by General Campan (who was to attack the fleches) to lead his division through the woods, Napoleon agreed, though the so-called Duke of Elchingen (Ney) ventured to remark that a movement through the woods was dangerous and might disorder the division.

Or was it a proposal?

I discussed my proposal with Molly who with wisdom beyond her years, agreed.

This Robert Livingston, founder of the American family, became in 1675 secretary of the important Board of Indian Commissioners; he was a member of the New York Assembly in1711-1715and 1716-1727 and its speaker in 1718-1725, and in 1701 made the proposal that all the English colonies in America should be grouped for administrative purposes "into three distinct governments."

A week after the signing of the treaty he supported a proposal for the king's deposition, and the vote of No Addresses was carried.

Belisarius dallied with the proposal until he had obtained an entrance within the walls of the capital, and proclaimed his inviolable fidelity to Justinian.

Nor did they assent to Bismarcks proposal that the Reichstag should assume power to exclude from the House members who were guilty of misusing the liberty of speech which they enjoyed there.

A proposal to introduce biennial budgets was for this reason regarded with great suspicion by the Opposition as a reactionary measure, and rejected.

In 1904 it was once more introduced in the modified form of a proposal of a canal from the Rhine to Leine in Hanover, with a branch from Datteln to Ham, and also of a canal from Berlin to Stettin.

The first proposal in March 1881 was for compulsory insurance against accidents.

The fate of the ex-farmers-general was sealed on the and of May 1794, when, on the proposal of Antoine Dupin, one of their former officials, the convention sent them for trial by the Revolutionary tribunal.

It is true that he made an ostensible offer on the franchise question, but that proposal was made dependent on so many conditions that it was a palpable sham.

In 1896 Herzl (q.v.) issued his proposal for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine and in 1898 he came to the country to investigate its possibilities.

In 1576 he opposed the proposal of the Protestant princes to make a grant for the Turkish War conditional upon the abolition of the clause concerning ecclesiastical reservation, and he continued to support the Habsburgs.

He had been obliged to resign the deanery of St Patrick's in 1567, and twenty years later he quarrelled violently with Sir John Perrot, the lord deputy, over the proposal to appropriate the revenues of the cathedral to the foundation of a university.

He persuaded his ministers to constitute a special inquiry into the proposed abolition of land taxes, and in the address with which he opened the Riksdag of 1875 laid particular stress upon the necessity of giving attention to the settlement of these two burning questions, and in 1880 again came forward with a new proposal for increasing the number of years of service with the militia.

Briefly stated, his proposal was that no child under nine years of age should be employed in a factory, and that no young person under eighteen should be employed for more than twelve hours a day.

In February 1852 it was defeated on a proposal to revivethe militia, and resigned.

Cassandra accepted the proposal; but no sooner had she obtained the gift than she laughed at the tempter, and refused to fulfil her promise.

A secret ballot is to be taken on the new proposal, the result of which will be revealed tomorrow.

Our proposal at the last election for directly elected local police commissioners needs to be developed in far more detail.

The UK's proposal to establish an infrastructure consortium was agreed at a meeting on 5 May in London.

This proposal aims both to simplify our existing molecular identification system for Calanus spp., and to expand it to include other common copepods.

This would be an extraordinary proposal in normal times; in today's context, it is barely credible.

The decision to set up the college was made following lively discussion of a proposal at the group's annual general meeting.

One page is a proposal for improving the rules to remove the disincentives to work.

He has put forward a most interesting business proposal, not entirely dissimilar in nature to your own.

In this proposal a series of experiments with graded sediments are detailed which will take place in the tilting flume at HR Wallingford.

Prince Vasili finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you on his pupil's behalf.

Berg's proposal was at first received with a perplexity that was not flattering to him.

She doubted it was pity that inspired his proposal.

The telegraph companies proposed to effect an amalgamation so as to enable the services to be consolidated and extended, and they proposed to submit to various conditions for the protection of the public, such as maximum rates and limitation of dividends, with the provision that new issues of capital should be offered by auction, but public opinion was averse to the proposal.

But his proposal to substitute for all aides and customs duties a single capitation tax of a tenth of the revenue of all property was naturally opposed by the farmers of taxes and found little support.