The phrase "sound proposal" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a plan or suggestion that appears to be good and well-thought-out. For example: "The mayor presented a sound proposal that focused on addressing the city's education system."
It's a sound proposal, but you might not know that listening to some of the arguments against it.
The report urged county officials to come up with a sound proposal by the end of the month.
The report urged county officials to devise a sound proposal by the end of the month or face a state takeover.
* Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, a Democrat from Ossining, has been promoting a sound proposal to improve the redistricting process, which resumes this year.
The National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank, a sound proposal put forward by President-elect Barack Obama, calls for $60 billion over 10 years.
Meanwhile, Congress could help reduce costs for affordable housing units by passing the Affordable Housing and Self Sufficiency Improvement Act, a sound proposal in which core provisions have bipartisan support.
There are numerous clear and sound proposals for more economically sensible migration policy.
It makes sound proposals for upgrading computers and devising new screening technologies.
The United States, the villain in blocking a deal on relaxing drug patents, has offered sound proposals for agriculture.
Several financially sound proposals, including one -- favored by the Historic Trust -- to convert the Mapes into upscale senior apartments, were presented to the city's Redevelopment Agency Board but were ultimately turned down.
Suddenly, extra money was found for dicretionary domestic spending; and, more lamentably, two small but sound proposals for long-term structural reforms were struck from the negotiators' lists.The first was a suggested per capita limit for Medicaid, the federal/state health programme for the poor.
