Sentence examples for if they propose from inspiring English sources

If they propose anything, it is that the liberal imagination is too chastened already.

However, if they propose arrangements which the public cannot bear, which the media think scandalous and which party leaders feel obliged to condemn, then we may as well vote on it ourselves.

Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, is facing opposition from the home secretary, Theresa May, and the Liberal Democrats over plans to force all councils and police authorities to hold a council-wide referendum if they propose a council tax rise of more than 1%.

If the relatives behave like friendly tribes, as they occasionally do — if they propose to coöperate with the biographer, even to the point of making him "official" or "authorized" — he still has to assert his authority and strut about to show that he is the big white man and they are just the naked savages.

If they propose a safe research idea, they can get rejected for not distinguishing their evolution as a scientist; and if they propose risky research, they can get rejected for overestimating their abilities.

Or it could mean researchers "falsely believe" that NINDS is not interested in basic studies and they have a better shot at being funded if they propose disease-focused or applied studies.

Civil servants at junior grades have complained that they were bypassed even if they proposed good ideas.

The Europeans have said that airlines could be exempted from the system if they proposed equivalent emissions-reducing measures at home; these might include using cleaner fuels.

In Saratoga Springs, north of Albany, school officials said education was so important to their voters that even if they proposed drastic cuts, the cuts were likely to be rejected.

After all, says Georgi Ivanov, a film and TV producer, it's all about business viability: "If they proposed a good business plan, why shouldn't they get the money?"Georgi Angelov, a well-known economist, sees two reasons why Payner should not get the funds.

But why not, if they proposed very advantageous conditions?" Salome Zurabishvili, leader of the opposition Georgian Way party, said at a news conference, "The government is a traitor, which says, on the one hand, that Russia is an occupier, and on the other hand makes deals with the same country".