The phrase "refine a proposal" is correct and can be used in written English.
Example sentence: Once the ideas have been generated, we can begin to refine the proposals.
Goodwin gives few other examples of dissent refining a proposal.
Radio Netherlands and Amsterdam University are refining a proposal for an early-warning system that would pick up hate-speech broadcasts, including cryptic ones, and at least mitigate their effects.But Jan Hoek, who runs the global arm of Radio Netherlands, says he has grown cautious about lavish Western efforts to promote "good" media in places like Rwanda where radio was used for evil ends.
His goal, after applying consensus building methods to the groups separately and finally in an 80-person gathering of all eight city interests in December, is to refine a single proposal for improving the city's police-community relations that all parties to the lawsuit might accept.
A key part of our proposal is the concept of service refinement, a combination of service composition, and policy refinement which involves refining a higher level service specification into an integrated composite of lower level services.
But he indicated he may make one last try by naming a subgroup of the advisory committee to help refine the proposal.
We refine this proposal by suggesting transitions between indirect exciton (IX) states as a source of terahertz emission.
But Defense Solutions used information General McCaffrey gleaned from his meetings to refine its proposal.
The rules working group is expected to refine the proposal to include possibly four different dates.
The New York State Board of Regents will announce today what a spokesman described as a "proposal for major reform in state aid for schools," refining a plan adopted last month to overhaul how state money is allocated to school districts.
If approved, negotiations will take place between the authority and the building firm to refine their proposals and agree a fixed price tender.
They began refining a concept.
