Sentence examples for were proffered to from inspiring English sources

So the constant invocations of mass death and devastation were proffered to the conventioneers and their television audience not only as a bad thing but also, perversely, as something to cherish, even to celebrate, as a source of unity and purpose.

But Thanksgiving is hardly the only celebration of the idea of culinary "contribution" – there's a similar narrative about the plantation South, where African foods appear in the culinary narrative, as though they were proffered to white Americans through an altruistic cultural exchange program.

A preliminary proposal has been proffered to Chinese leaders at the National People's Congress.

Another branch is proffered to his half-sister on Little Sis.

But there's barely anything being proffered to those who have become the sacrificial lambs of the last few years, the "squeezed middle".

We need to demystify the illusions of control that are proffered to us by our leaders and expected by the public.

Meanwhile, computer simulations have become sophisticated and large enough to provide additional insights, and yet more theories have been proffered to explain glasses.

Clues about the WMD are now expected to come from lower-ranking scientists, many of whom, it is said, are still too fearful of a possible Baathist resurgence to come forward, despite the rewards and incentives being proffered to them.

No one, I submit, should pay good money for a college education and then be expected to ruminate over the fine points of what is proffered to us by the fiction industry today.

A first principle based mechanics model is proffered to account for the relative material propensity for either slip or twinning on the basis of atomic level generalized stacking/planar fault energies.

Falcon officials and Lord Deighton produced a "beauty parade" of projects to be proffered to the crown prince's investment fund in an extraordinary secret meeting in July 2013 with Tony Blair, who acted as a lobbyist in London.