Sentence examples for earnest proposal from inspiring English sources

Her response to my earnest proposal of marriage was "Ti Durak!" (You're an idiot!).

His earnest proposal, not a month after we had met and before any hint of love, expressed his desire for me to teach him to enjoy life.

This seemingly earnest proposal provoked a reaction so vitriolic from sections on the political right that I began to wonder whether I was missing a point to wonder, in fact, that I, as a recent immigrant to this country, had failed to integrate well enough to grasp the nuances of American political debate.

But sometimes, ever so quietly, the Helluva Party which is basically just Richardson and his "running mate," a Santa Cruz musician named Richard Karst breaks its pro forma "whatever" stance on policy with what sound like genuine and earnest issue proposals.

Accordingly, Sen. Schumer spoke to Senator Coburn yesterday (Tuesday) to let him know that while the lines of communication will remain open between their offices, he intends to begin approaching other Republican senators in earnest about the proposal.

There have been only a handful of earnest, grass-roots proposals to preserve what's left of the historic fabric.

So all the committee reports are key steps and will steer the wider response of MPs and Peers in Parliament and the Lords when they begin to look in earnest at the proposals.

"I'm not sure that the administration has conducted a legal analysis of their specific proposals," Earnest said at his Nov. 3 briefing.

Were the earnest and detailed proposals offered by participants akin to re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as the great ship sank?

Maybe, but the last time the Gipper-in-Granite was tried in earnest, only two years ago, the proposal died an early political death.

Competing ideas involving chickens, a pond and a boxing ring were energetically championed in debates, but the council finally voted to run with the graffiti idea, and work began in earnest on developing the proposal.