In addition, he supported the local Onion River Collaborative market (now City Market), instead of accepting a proposal for a large, unpopular supermarket in the centre of town.
Not all researchers are accepting of Franco's proposals.
Female visitors might bear in mind that tradition dictates that talking to one of these young men is tantamount to accepting a proposal of marriage.
By deducing that a blinking green light is a metaphoric signal somewhere between blinking amber and unblinking green, we find the meaning becoming clear: it is like a woman accepting a proposal of marriage on the understanding that she retains the right to rescind it if someone more suitable turns up.
They recommended that Obama endorse the idea of a bipartisan fiscal commission, accepting a proposal that the President had rejected months earlier — and he agreed.
Even when Thea accepts a proposal of marriage from a man who adores her, the transaction is clipped and dry.
It didn't appeal and since she couldn't earn enough money to support her son on her own (the Equal Pay Act was still 10 years off), she accepted a proposal of marriage from a respectable-looking headteacher from Acton, west London.
When he chooses the second oldest sister, the youngest, Bernarda, with a certain weary cynicism, eventually accepts a proposal from one of her father's very rich friends, who has long hoped for a young wife.
YEMEN Yemen's opposition coalition accepted a proposal for a transfer of power, bringing the country closer to a resolution of months of political turmoil.
The statement, carried by the Interfax news agency, was in response to reports from Washington that quoted a senior administration official who suggested that Russia was on the verge of accepting an American proposal to amend the ABM treaty and allow more rigorous American missile shield tests.
