Sentence examples for proposal an offer from inspiring English sources

Of her historical interpretations, Mantel says in her afterword that she is "making the reader a proposal, an offer", but what is striking is how little concerned she is with the reader.

This clause may be a proposition (a statement or a question) or a proposal (an offer or a command); i.e., a proposition has the semantic function of exchanging information, while a proposal has the semantic function of exchanging goods & services (Halliday and Michael 1995 12; (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014): 139).

Trump called the proposal "an incredible offer".

The centerpiece of those proposals is an offer of shared administration of Arab East Jerusalem, but not of sovereignty over it.

Clifton said neither team termed its proposal a final offer, and he said that Glavine could make his decision next week.

So P's proposal amounts to an offer, not a threat, on this way of understanding of what's normal.

A new proposal could offer a way out.

Alibaba's formal proposal in May involved an offer to buy part of the stake held by Yahoo, Mr. Spelich said.

But Mr. Lavrov followed up on the idea, with a proposal that offered a compromise that could avert an American-led strike in response to a poison-gas attack near Damascus last month.

To illustrate the proposal, I offer an in-depth analysis of Chengdu Chinese, whose phonemic analysis has not received much attention.

Most recently, New York City's council announced an upcoming proposal to offer "X" as a gender category for people who don't identify as female or male.