What is "proposers"

Usage examples of "proposers".

Years of patient work on laborious research programs had enabled him to provide mortar for the bricks of a score of brilliant but tottering theories, and he was liked for that reason both by the proposers of such theories and by those under him who were unwilling to assume what Gordon was still dedicatedly trying to place beyond doubt.

Recourse is had to that extreme and final decree of the senate (which was never resorted to even by daring proposers except when the city was in danger of being set on fire, or when the public safety was despaired of).

So far its proposers have escaped extreme censure, though in the early days their careers may have suffered because no one believed them—or understood what they were talking about.

Not as scientists, where the credentials of both proposers are impeccable.

The proposers of the measure convened a meeting in which they showered abuse on their colleagues, calling them "traitors to the interests of the plebs" and "slaves of the consulars," with other insulting epithets.