Example Sentences

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The union believed there was an understanding on luxury tax rates, which management had been proposing to substantially steepen while eliminating higher penalties for recidivist high spenders.

From Fox News • Mar. 1, 2022

Professor Wood had been proposing for some time that lawsuits to stop climate change could be built around the public trust doctrine.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018

In fact, they still didn’t know that Barr had been proposing a dirty-tricks campaign against trade unions and WikiLeaks to a government agency and a major bank.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2012

Britain will propose to the Security Council what Ball had been proposing in Nicosia: the establishment of a 10,000-man peacekeeping force.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bicker, our authentic poet, and not an opportunist like Mead, had been proposing a magazine for some little time past.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund