(1) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(2) Both sides agree that antigenic diversity is advantageous although selectionists see benefits in individual mutations whereas the proponents of random genetic drift see the advantage in the parasite's capacity to tolerate diversity per se.
(3) It is said that the science around climate change is not as certain as its proponents allege.
(4) He is also a vocal proponent of the benefit cap , finding it disgusting that some families can claim more in benefits than the average person earns, even while he finds it intolerable that he can only claim in accommodation expenses £2,000 more than the cap .
(5) He is a “caricature machine politician” , Goldsmith has claimed, but also the proponent of “divisive and radical politics” .
(6) Hungary, now one of Europe’s keenest proponents of border protection, was less than a century ago part of a polyglot, multinational commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
(7) George Osborne, the chancellor, whose Tatton constituency lies on the expected route, is a crucial proponent in unlocking the £33bn spend.
(8) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
(9) Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was the major proponent of Greater Europe, a concept that also had European roots in Gaullism and other initiatives.
(10) Debate among proponents of these various proposals might be advanced if a common language were adopted with regard to certain key terms instead of the various meanings currently assigned to these terms.
(11) Psychologist Susan Blackmore is best known as the proponent of memes, but early in her career she was a parapsychologist.
(12) Proponents argue that freestanding emergency centers reduce costs by providing care in a more efficient manner and cause other health care providers such as hospital emergency rooms to reduce costs and improve service.
(13) Strong proponents exist for the combination chemoradiation, whereas others favor radical radiation therapy.
(14) Proponents of these schemes argue that it helps to rescue people from fuel poverty.
(15) But proponents argue a nuclear weapons ban will create a moral case – in the vein of the cluster and land mine conventions – for nuclear weapons states to disarm, and establish a new international norm prohibiting nuclear weapons’ development, possession, and use.
(16) The basic income has its proponents on the right as well as the left, with the former seeing it as a cut-price form of welfare.
(17) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
(18) According to some proponents and critics of research using animals, the greatest hope for improved conditions for laboratory animals is to be found in the system of self-regulation called for by recent legislation and the NIH's revised policy.
(19) Lord Mandelson, a former Labour minister and a keen proponent of electoral reform, said AV supporters had paid a "big price" for staging the national poll on the same day as the first elections since the general election.
(20) He said the shift to the neutral stance would allow nurses to talk to patients about it if they were questioned, but added: "That must not be confused with us being proponents of assisted suicide."
Propose
Definition:
(v.) To set forth.
(v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.
(v.) To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.
(v. i.) To speak; to converse.
(v. i.) To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.
(v. i.) To offer one's self in marriage.
(n.) Talk; discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
(2) Experiments are proposed by which to test these and related hypotheses.
(3) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(4) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(5) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(6) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(7) A sensitive color reaction after two-dimensional TLC described earlier for zeranol determination in veal samples is proposed for the detection of the zeranol metabolite zearalanone and the mycotoxin zearalenone.
(8) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(9) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(10) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
(11) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(12) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(13) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
(14) The proposed method appears to offer a more consistently accurate means of measuring EDV than previously suggested ultrasound methods.
(15) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(16) It is proposed that in A. brasilense, the PII protein and glutamine synthetase are involved in a post-translational modification of NifA.
(17) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
(18) We propose that during the detergent solubilization the acidic phospholipids protect the transport systems against denaturation by preventing delipidation.
(19) However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.
(20) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.