Sentence examples for proposing a substitute from inspiring English sources

Its growing numbers of critics still show all the ambivalence of the anti-Establishment: they love to attack it, but are uninterested in proposing a substitute, in the form of a republic with an elected president.

Hence, Green's friend, Mrs. Humphry Ward had to defend his position against sustained attacks from William Gladstone who objected that "in proposing a substitute for [Christianity], reached by reduction and negation, I think (forgive me) you are dreaming the most visionary of all human dreams" (quoted in Ward, p.xvi).

[I]nterruptions of the reading of an amendment that has been proposed are not in order, even for the purpose of proposing a substitute amendment to a committee amendment which is being read.

If it becomes necessary for you to make a course change because, for instance, one of your core courses is no longer offered at Duke, you must propose a substitute course in writing to your advisor, who will need to approve the substitution and notify the Program II office of the change before the end of drop/add in the semester in which you would be taking the substitute course.

He proposed a substitute that he said would save money and speed improvement through a unified management structure.

He knows the law under which they were convicted is deeply flawed since he has proposed a substitute.

Kasparov, who was in Moscow, was communicating with him via Skype, and he proposed a substitute opening less than an hour before a game against Kramnik.

Mr. Ludger said that the mayor had spoken of evicting the median-strip squatters for their safety but had not proposed a substitute location.

The E.P.A. is required by law to regulate carbon dioxide emissions in some fashion, but so far Mr. Pruitt has not proposed a substitute plan.

These remains had been known as Saurophagus, but that name was already in use, leading Chure to propose a substitute.

So, while the rules dictate that the reading may not be interrupted in order to propose a substitute amendment, they also clearly indicate that an amendment can be withdrawn "at any time".