President Obama's powerful speech on the budget alternated between urging members of both parties to work together - citing bipartisan support for the principles and programs he outlined - and making it clear that he recognized that some Republicans will block any proposal he makes - even those they had once proposed themselves.
The three engineers suggested we call the new unit the Nucleus of Technological Innovation (NTI) and somewhat predictably proposed themselves as its first three members.
As a feminist, I think that if women want to micromanage things, they should jolly well do the proposing themselves, obviously.
Three of its leaders Dr Ibrahim al-Jaafari of the Dawa party, Adel Abd al-Mahdi of the more Islamist-minded Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Conference have all proposed themselves as prime minister, while one of the Kurds' two main leaders, Jalal Talabani, has his eye on a top job too: president, prime minister or parliament's speaker.
In Rome, there were 10,000 potential candidates; 200 proposed themselves as candidates.
These and other policy suggestions form the base of the group's suggested program for resolving a scandal made worse by bishops who have been "proposing themselves to be seen as the victims" of the claims made by men and women who were sexually abused in childhood by clergy.
We hope our map will equip more local communities to monitor and scrutinise land sales in their area that aren't providing the homes they need, or even better, encourage local residents to propose alternatives themselves.
In short, the object that they propose to themselves, in their specious policy of complete isolation, is not to avoid sharing in the crimes of others, but to secure monopoly of crime to themselves- the licence of outrage wherever they can compel, of fraud wherever they can elude, and the enjoyment of their gains without shame.
which so few ever propose to themselves 'till their best years are gone by".
