Example sentences for: proposing

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

  • Yesterday's decision by Republican budget negotiators to give up on proposing a means test for Medicare premiums is the top story at the Washington Post and the top national story at the Los Angeles Times . Surprisingly, at the New York Times , this doesn't even make the front page.

  • While Hillary Clinton preached against juvenile access to "bomb-making materiel" and decried "the arsenal of guns, rifles, and bombs that the two young men in Littleton were able to bring into their school," President Clinton earned another ovation by proposing to "require Brady background checks on anyone who wants to buy explosives."

  • Bush is proposing that federal education dollars come with strings attached.

  • By proposing to cut off tax subsidies only in states that don't have early primaries, Bradley has actually undermined his case for cutting any subsidies at all.

  • Nor has the fun we all had sneering at England's squandering its North Sea oil windfall in the '70s and '80s kept the Republican Party from proposing to give away the budget surplus to their rich constituents.


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