Sentence examples for seriously propose from inspiring English sources

What the British did seriously propose as early as 1891 was a quadrennial, multisport games involving Britain's far-flung dominions.

It is astonishing that Danielle Pletka could seriously propose that the Iraqis have no "freedom gene" (since they couldn't or wouldn't submit willingly to an armed occupation?).

Finance startups like Eris Industries have already announced that they will shutter their UK offices and do their work elsewhere, because you can't seriously propose to handle millions in other peoples' money if you're not allowed to use the best locks we know how to create – especially when your offshore competitors are not bound by the same stricture.

Those who seriously propose "boots on the ground", the horrible cliché that suggests the introduction of American, British or French ground troops, have evidently not been reading the news for the past 15 years or noticed what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan.

No one is proposing — no one will ever seriously propose — banning or discouraging those who passionately believe in their metaphysical intuitions about life from proselytizing and promulgating for them wherever they will, as best they can, within the normal rules of civil argument.

Does Mr. Obama seriously propose to change that?

Now no one seriously proposes to abolish it.

Even 20 years ago no one seriously proposed that women and women should marry.

Of course, the adultery law would never be seriously proposed or enacted.

The point is that each of them has been seriously proposed by (a minority of) expert logicians, and rationally debated.

The Pentagon seriously proposed that a former head of the C.I.A. should become information minister in the new occupation administration.