verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
propose a toast (=ask people to drink a toast)
▪ I’d like to propose a toast to the bride and groom.
propose legislation (=suggest a new law)
▪ The government proposed legislation on data protection.
propose marriageformal (= ask someone to marry you)
▪ He plucked up the courage to propose marriage to her.
propose/introduce/put forward a resolution
▪ The resolution was proposed by the chairman of the committee.
propose/put forward/table a motion (=make a proposal)
▪ I’d like to propose a motion to move the weekly meetings to Thursdays.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ He also proposed a referendum on private ownership of land.
▪ Kantor said the Clinton campaign also proposed a three-way debate between the vice presidential candidates on Oct. 9.
▪ Guidance is also proposed for situations in which the predecessor auditor's report is to be re-issued.
▪ He also proposes a bipartisan commission to examine the issue as the best politically possible way to change the system.
▪ It has also proposed that the abduction offences should become gender neutral.
▪ Mr Milburn also proposed an early warning register to pick up the mistakes and bad practices of rogue doctors.
▪ Tax exemptions for the property of literary and artistic figures is also proposed.
▪ Chafee also proposed a five-year delay in setting specific limits for fine particulates, or soot, citing scientific uncertainty.
first
▪ When Governor Perpich first proposed choice, in 1985, only about a third of those surveyed supported the idea.
▪ Former President Reagan first proposed the 16-nation project in 1984.
▪ I continue my efforts and stand behind what I first proposed.
▪ When she had first proposed doing the piece, her bosses had flatly turned down her proposal.
▪ It was first proposed in April by two Republicans, Sen.
■ NOUN
administration
▪ The Clinton administration has proposed stabilizing emissions at the 1990 level.
▪ The Administration proposed and the Senate approved a similar understanding in its resolution of ratification of the Convention against Torture.
▪ The Carter Administration proposed a federal-state reservation.
▪ The Administration proposed a declaration clarifying the relationship between this Article and international law.
amendment
▪ He proposed an amendment to the poll tax to take account of ability to pay and split the Conservative Party in 1988.
▪ He did not mention the other proposed amendments, although in the past he has supported all but one.
▪ The proposed balanced-budget constitutional amendment will be brought up in February or early March, he said.
▪ Lindell said that if he is elected in November, he would introduce the proposed amendment during the 1997 regular session.
▪ But those proposed amendments are merely the ones that generate the most political heat.
▪ Allowing citizens to propose their own constitutional amendments.
bill
▪ On 21 February 1992, he proposed his own bill to provide for a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty.
▪ Today, we would reject a proposed Bill of Rights out of hand.
▪ I propose that the new Bill, like the Bill of 1938, should contain a provision to carry out this recommendation.
▪ The proposed Regulatory Reform Bill will also enable us to do away more easily with outdated, burdensome and overlapping regulation.
▪ This proposed bill would have a grave effect on justice.
budget
▪ Senate debate on the proposed balanced budget amendment could begin as early as next week.
▪ The proposed budget would end the next fiscal year in the black by a razor-thin $ 54 million.
▪ The governor will submit his proposal later this month, along with his proposed fiscal 1997 state budget.
▪ Under the proposed budget, $ 25 million would go to the effort in 1996-97.
▪ Colleges and universities Higher education funding in the proposed budget keeps step with the third year of a four-year agreement.
▪ Wilson marked it for full funding in his proposed budget.
▪ Clinton fired the opening salvo last month when he included tax cuts in his proposed 1997 budget.
change
▪ Health authorities will have a duty to consult local authorities on proposed major changes to service development.
▪ This proposed change will mean it will be a little easier for some one with real opinions and views to be selected.
▪ Your directors are proposing certain changes in respect of these schemes to enhance this objective.
▪ The Assembly approved the proposed changes.
▪ One proposed change, however, has an air of inevitability about it: the junking of the monarchy.
▪ The full convention, the only party body that can dictate delegate-selection procedures, will have final say on any proposed change.
▪ This is especially the case when the action that is proposed requires some change from the usual flow of action.
▪ But the proposed changes are serious.
commission
▪ The project being proposed by the Commission would put up £450 million for collaborative work in computers and automation.
▪ They argued that Richards' proposed state ethics commission lacked the authority to police political conduct.
▪ He also proposes a bipartisan commission to examine the issue as the best politically possible way to change the system.
▪ Disagreeing, Evers said the standards proposed by the commission are not like those used in leading foreign nations.
▪ These provisions are wider than what was proposed by the Royal Commission.
▪ The urban agenda proposed by the Commission was an unmistakable repudiation of the Carter urban policy.
cut
▪ If this figure proves wildly optimistic, Bill Clinton will either have to propose more cuts or spend more money.
▪ For example, administration officials highlighted Sanchez Elementary in Austin, Texas as a potential victim of the proposed cuts.
▪ His proposed tax cuts are warmed-over Reaganomics that could saddle our children with an ever-increasing national debt.
▪ President Clinton is also a supporter, having criticized the proposed cut in a letter to lawmakers.
▪ About 75 percent of all the proposed spending cuts would take effect after 2000&038;.
▪ But the current proposed cuts mean that, nationwide, about 9, 700 schools will loose all Title I support.
▪ Dole aides have said the candidate may propose broader income tax cuts later this year as part of his long-range economic strategy.
▪ Instead, Dole proposed a 15 percent cut in income tax rates.
government
▪ Where the Government propose alternatives to custody, they must provide the resources to make them work.
▪ The government now is proposing further to escalate its efforts by putting some of the Social Security trust fund in stocks.
▪ The government has already proposed using 685 billion yen in taxpayers' money to help dispose of the loans.
▪ The Government proposes to implement a major review of adoption law in the New Year.
▪ Yet far from seeking to defend free speech, the Government is proposing to subject the media to even fewer controls.
▪ However, the Government has proposed changing this so that the final decision would be up to the DoE.
law
▪ He also proposed an electoral law, details of which remained unspecified.
▪ The proposed new law thus would subject prosecutors and judges to the same limitations.
▪ Ministers will also propose stricter implementation of laws against racist and sexist remarks at matches.
▪ Boris Yeltsin refused to support the proposed law.
▪ The proposed law still would require businesses to report pollution releases under other existing state and federal laws, Rhoades said.
▪ It will be reluctant to propose a law to make banks £500m richer at the expense of local taxpayers.
▪ Under the proposed law, she would have the upper hand.
measure
▪ Democrats also intend to push for privacy initiatives and to propose modest gun control measures, party aides said.
▪ In proposing such unpalatable measures, albeit with reluctance, the Big Five were showing both realism and courage.
▪ Kessler has proposed a new measure that forbids using cattle parts in animal feed but still permits them in fertilizer.
▪ It does not propose any significant environmental measures, but it does suggest a lower duty on diesel.
▪ It is proposing stringent measures, underlining the urgent need for a change of attitude among lawyers.
▪ The city attorney rarely takes a position on the legality of proposed ballot measures before they qualify.
model
▪ What Valverde and Nadelstern are proposing is a new model for higher education-the remedial college.
▪ Allen and Burton propose the following model.
▪ I offered them an opportunity to correct my proposed model.
▪ Psychological studies of word recognition propose models of interaction between the different levels of processing which combine to give recognition.
motion
▪ In March 1922 Steel-Maitland proposed a strong motion of confidence in Younger that was a clear rebuke to his critics.
▪ It would be a formality for a representative of the Assembly to ask the Archon to propose the opening motion.
plan
▪ We therefore propose the 10-point plan which follows.
▪ The goals and activities in this plan are consistent with the goals set forth in recently proposed plans for health care reform.
▪ Cardinal Lienart of Lille proposed an alternative plan.
▪ Despite a briefcase thick with proposed solutions, no plan has been implemented.
▪ Each side has proposed a plan that would balance the budget in seven years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
▪ The group proposed the final remediation plan.
▪ A proposed zoning plan is the topic of conversation at the Dayton Coffee Shop.
reform
▪ This idea, or some variation of it, often is included in proposed initiative reforms.
▪ Section 902 of the proposed reform Act contained a controversial provision.
▪ All accept that the public is dissatisfied with the existing system, and all propose reforms.
▪ The proposed Regulatory Reform Bill will also enable us to do away more easily with outdated, burdensome and overlapping regulation.
resolution
▪ Is is worth the trouble of allowing members to propose resolutions?
▪ A proposed resolution to oppose voucher plans and charter schools provoked a spirited debate on the convention floor.
▪ The Committee adopted by voice vote an amendment offered by Senator Helms to the proposed resolution of ratification.
scheme
▪ The Disability Alliance has been proposing such a scheme for nearly two decades.
▪ Few would venture to propose such schemes today.
▪ A converted physicist not afraid of over-simplification, Valentino Braitenberg, has proposed a scheme so simple that it needs no diagram.
▪ In 1978, McClellan proposed a scheme based on main categories where subdivision is by readability ratings.
▪ The report proposes a pilot scheme in selected courts.
▪ The Commission proposes a margin scheme, i.e.
solution
▪ Some of our economists are proposing the same solutions.
▪ There is a lot of agreement for many of the issues, though a lot of differences in proposed solutions.
▪ Meanwhile, worried scientists have moved beyond offering proof of the ill effects of human activity to proposing solutions.
▪ Despite a briefcase thick with proposed solutions, no plan has been implemented.
▪ So far, feminists have mainly proposed numerical solutions to these imbalances, treating the categories as equivalent and autonomous.
▪ Most proposed solutions to the funds' problems involve limiting the benefits of current recipients in some way.
▪ Falsifiable hypotheses are proposed by scientists as solutions to the problem.
▪ In both cases, senior management looked on the proposed solution as unworkable at best, and, at worst, subversive.
system
▪ We could propose a simpler system.
▪ Typically hypothesized peripheral mechanisms propose multicellular systems { 108 }.
▪ It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing.
▪ The proposed system is not ready to graduate from development to deployment, and probably never will be.
▪ The proposed system will integrate conventional computing, expert systems, and neural network methods.
▪ The proposed satellite interconnection system that I was fighting so hard to stop suddenly looked terribly appealing.
▪ From what we know, the proposed defense system can defeat only the dumbest decoys.
tax
▪ The Inland Revenue has released a consultative document that proposes a heavier tax charge for certain cars.
▪ He has proposed a new tax credit that reinforces the traditional use of special tax breaks to affect social policy.
▪ President Bill Clinton vetoed that, and proposed instead some small tax credits and tax deductions for higher education.
▪ Instead, Dole proposed a 15 percent tax cut.
▪ The clause among the Fourth Lateran Council decrees that proposed regulated taxes for the churches and provinces of Christendom suggests as much.
▪ Financial industry executives said the proposed taxes would have dampened institutional investment, particularly by foreigners.
▪ Underlying all the discussions is the proposed tobacco tax.
▪ Dole aides have said the candidate may propose broader income tax cuts later this year as part of his long-range economic strategy.
theory
▪ This article does not propose to explain the theory behind profit maximisation with price discrimination.
▪ In all the years since Wilson proposed his theory of hot spots, plumes have remained elusive, practically imaginary structures.
▪ He proposed a theory in which the germ plasm was totally isolated from the adult body that transmits it to future generations.
▪ I now wish to propose a theory about the performance of medieval and Renaissance music.
▪ We are not proposing a theory of how a typical member generates his performance on the basis of this knowledge.
toast
▪ Mountbatten was to propose the toast to the Navy, I to the guests.
▪ He stands up stiffly and proposes a toast to their old friend.
▪ Alas for him, the speech proposing the loyal toast can sometimes take a very long time.
▪ At the end of dinner, King Constantine proposed the toast to the bride and bridegroom, then the dancing began.
▪ I want to propose a toast to an absent - and sorely missed - friend.
▪ An all ladies cast with the exception of Mr. Bernard Povey who proposed the toast.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Man proposes, God disposes
propose a vote of thanks (to sb)
▪ Chairman Gerald Davies proposed a vote of thanks.
▪ I did listen to him proposing a vote of thanks occasionally, and I was always glad when he sat down.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the last meeting, Mrs Williams was proposed by several members.
▪ Did he get down on one knee to propose?
▪ I propose that we discuss this at the next meeting.
▪ I thought he was going to propose to me, but in fact he just wanted to borrow some money.
▪ I would like to propose Mr Harrison for the position of Party Treasurer.
▪ The Russians proposed a treaty banning all nuclear tests.
▪ We proposed several dates for the next meeting, but they were all rejected.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But what had made the girl propose to him in this way?
▪ Each member receives an Annual Report and the opportunity to propose people to stand for the Executive Committee.
▪ He knows Clinton will not propose and Congress will not enact legislation to seriously weaken provisions of the new law.
▪ In essence I proposed that rather than having public investment we should substitute private investment without any Government guarantee.
▪ Ramsay, accepting the need, wondered whether even Douglas would have the presumption to propose himself for the position.
▪ The new or expanded benefits proposed would cost more than $ 17 billion over five years.