Sentence examples for modestly propose from inspiring English sources

May I modestly propose that John Philip Sousa is America's truly important composer.

I hereby modestly propose that the city of Oakland be transformed into that Special Regulatory Zone.

I modestly propose that a new Great Depression is exactly what America needs to wake ourselves up, put some moral fiber back in our diet, and give us some breathing room so we can catch up to the rest of the world again.

It modestly proposes a fluid line, and modesty.

For starters, this column modestly proposes a few categories of "criminal" New Yorkers in need of Council pardons.

Mitt Romney's loss in 2012 energized a faction of conservatives who modestly proposed that a plutocrat running on a message of upper-income tax cuts and deregulation had little to offer voters who were struggling economically.

To square that with the observable fact that the universe is expanding, and thus might be expected to get less and less dense as it grows older, the three researchers modestly proposed repealing the law of conservation of matter.

I modestly proposed to the panel that in an increasingly globalized world, journalists should also be multilingual to better understand what they see and cover and to better convey the message.

Thus, Republican congressmen, senators and governors -- even staunch, principled conservatives -- developed the instinct to propose only modestly less statist policies than Democrats did (as, for example, George W. Bush's Medicare Part D subsidies for drugs).

We propose a series of tax reforms that would modestly increase the burden, but only on the top 2 percent of Americans — 98 percent of Americans would see no increase in their effective tax burden.

Some "modestly" hypofractionated schemes have been proposed and used, without apparently altering the efficacy/toxicity ratio, but these results have been seriously questioned.