Sentence examples for cannot propose from inspiring English sources

You and I cannot propose changes, nor can Ofgem or the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

"If there is one person who cannot propose something like this, it is the Greek prime minister.

However, ideological to his little toe, he cannot propose a merger of the two under public ownership, which is Labour's suggestion, because it would effectively mean renationalisation.

You cannot propose your Friedman-cribbed solution to an economic problem, if you cannot even recognise the problem in the first place.

Yet if Mr Obama cannot propose things that will not get past Congress or give his full backing to those that might, there is not much left for him to talk about.Presidents who have found themselves in this position before have sometimes resorted to executive action.

Unfortunately, I cannot propose a general solution to this issue.

Tom Sandusky, Spring Hill, Fla.: You cannot just propose a huge gas tax.

The general managers cannot formally propose rule changes at the meeting.

Less than $4 billion is devoted to procuring equipment, on the grounds that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has not yet completed his defense review and so cannot yet propose his own plan for acquiring new weaponry.

They cannot intelligibly propose a revolution and then deny that it would change anything (2001: 143).

One reason for such resistance is that it is not clear why one cannot seriously propose that there can be "abstract stuffs".