The phrase "a mere proposal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to downplay the significance of a suggestion or idea, indicating that it is just a proposal and not a final decision or commitment.
Example: "While I appreciate your enthusiasm, I must remind you that this is a mere proposal and not yet approved by the board."
Alternatives: "just a suggestion" or "simply a proposal".
These lines reveal the memo as a mere proposal, now twenty-four years old.
For the first two years of its life, it existed first as a mere proposal, and then as an internal project only available to those within CERN.
What made this surrender such an emblem of Mr Hollande's diminished authority was that it was not a mere proposal but written into law, and had passed with cross-party parliamentary support.Mr Hollande's options are now limited.
To find out where this military funding could and should go if Trump actually secures it this budget remains a mere proposal, requiring passage by Congress—I talked to Paul Scharre and Adam Routh at the Center for a New American Security, a public policy think tank in Washington DC focused on the military.
To find out where this military funding could and should go if Trump actually secures it this budget remains a mere proposal, requiring passage by Congress—I talked to Adam Routh and Paul Scharre at the Center for a New American Security, a public policy think tank in Washington, DC, focused on the military.
To find out where this military funding could and should go if Trump actually secures it this budget remains a mere proposal, requiring passage by Congress—I talked to Adam Routh and Paul Scharre at the Center for a New American Security, a public policy think tank in Washington, DC, focused on the military.
While the Obama administration argues that new regulations are necessary to protect taxpayers from the liabilities of a future collapse, the mere proposal is doing a fine job of destroying taxpayer money right now.
The mere proposal seemed a reward.
Democrats are worried that the White House's mere proposal of a rescissions package could drive agencies to put some plans on hold until questions about their budgets are resolved, even though, as DeLauro and Murray point out, agencies aren't supposed to withhold funds until the president at least sends a formal spending impoundment message to Congress.
That was the moment when "net neutrality" rules went from a mere academic proposal to a part of the United States legal order.
Nevertheless, the mere proposal allows conclusions with regard to the future development of national co-existence regulations.
