Example sentences for: proposing

How can you use “proposing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Officials worried about falling minority enrollments and applications are proposing to guarantee admission to the University of California to any California high-school student who graduates in the top 4 percent of his high-school class.

  • President Clinton sent a letter to Russian President Boris Yeltsin in January proposing changes that would allow the U.S. to implement a limited missile defense system, but negotiations have been underway for only several weeks.

  • Other criticisms: 1) Clinton is using the surplus to avoid proposing benefit cuts, which will eventually be necessary.

  • When visiting Washington, Churchill fired off a series of telegrams to his government colleagues in London, proposing in one of them that de Gaulle be "eliminated" as a political force.

  • Although the four-elements paradigm remained robust throughout antiquity and through the Middle Ages (during which a mystical tradition emerged proposing a fifth element, ruling the others, the socalled quintessence ), atomism fell out of favor for nearly two millennia until the quantitative philosophy of the early Enlightenment created a conceptual environment friendly to the metamorphosis of alchemy, through the chemical experiments of Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Joseph Priestley, Henry Cavendish, Antoine Lavoisier and others, into something like the chemistry we were all taught in high school.


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