These come from pressing suits

Usage examples of proposals.

He made proposals to her which excited her laughter as he did not want to pay till after the event, and she would not admit this condition.

I have resolved to go away to-morrow to avoid making proposals to you which would bring the great fortune that awaits her to nought.

He stood very erect, a man of not much over five feet six, weighing about one hundred and forty pounds, and as he waited in the silence it became apparent to the committee that they were dealing not only with fascinating proposals, but with a problem of life and death and the history of the world.

Jarndyce and Jarndyce, why, I might make a sort of a claim upon Miss Summerson to look with an eye of more dedicated favour on my proposals than she has exactly done as yet.

Its influence over me is still tremenjous, and yielding to it, I am willing to overlook the circumstances over which none of us have had any control and to renew those proposals to Miss Summerson which I had the honour to make at a former period.

Congress and other political leaders have from time to time found it irresistible to poke fun at seemingly obscure scientific research proposals that the government is asked to fund.

Only about ten per cent of meritorious research proposals in medicine are funded today.

Let her be absent: it was equal to the first move of war, and absolved him from contemplated proposals to make amends.