Could Senator Humphrey be serious in his proposal??

Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

Schuster's ideas were not a serious theoretical proposal, merely speculation, and like the previous ideas, differed from the modern concept of antimatter in that it possessed negative gravity.

As it was, a special meeting of the British cabinet called to consider the " final offer ", they declined to pass on the message to Warsaw under the grounds this was not a serious proposal on the part of Berlin.

It took more than forty years before any serious proposal to establish settlements in the south-western portion of New South Wales were put forward.

This led to serious discussions, and the proposal was rejected by the board.

He thoroughly distrusted Mary, Queen of Scots ; objected to the proposal to marry her to Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk ; and warned Elizabeth that serious consequences for England would follow her restoration.

In 1674 there was even a serious proposal to refill the polder with water, reasoning that the area would be more profitable as fishing water.

This thought experiment was interpreted by some as a serious proposal or even a theory ; advocates for intersexual people stated that this theory was wrong, confusing and unhelpful to the interests of intersexual people.

* Stand aside: A " stand aside " may be registered by a group member who has a " serious personal disagreement " with a proposal, but is willing to let the motion pass.

In the mid-1990s, another serious proposal was produced and this gained support resulting in the publication of a masterplan.

This non-standard cosmology is mostly used as an elementary exercise for astronomy and physics students and doesn't represent a serious alternative proposal.

The April 2007 the resolution extending the mandate to October took " note of the Moroccan proposal presented on 11 April 2007 to the Secretary-General and welcoming serious and credible Moroccan efforts to move the process forward towards resolution " and also took " note of the Polisario Front proposal presented on 10 April 2007 to the Secretary-General ".

It was the first serious proposal for a vehicle which could carry a pilot and payload to the lower edge of space.

The Frenchman Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla designed the first serious proposal for a Panamanian flag.

He tells his mother the proposal was spur-of-the-moment and not serious.

The first serious proposal for a collider originated with a group at the Midwestern Universities Research Association ( MURA ).

The UNHCR reported that, in July 2001, the island nation of Tuvalu rejected, after serious consideration, a proposal from the Maharishi Spiritual Movement to create a " Vaticanlike sovereign city-state " near the international airport in exchange for a payment of $ 2 million a year.

There were serious flaws in the reasoning used to demonstrate the viability of their proposal, as it was framed as part of an alternative scheme to the Melbourne Underground Loop.

Since 1901, proposals for a state agricultural school had undergone discussion within the California State Legislature, yet no proposal had gained a serious following.

There is a possibility that Gerry is serious this time about his marriage proposal to Christina.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

`` This was not merely alleging errors, but was carried out by day-after-day allegations in memos, written charges of serious consequence.

One of Sherman's most serious shortcomings, however, was his mistrust of his cavalry.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

One of the many things that was so nice about her was that she always took your questions seriously, particularly your very, very serious questions.

Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.

The contention needs to be formulated with much greater precision than it ever was during the campaign, but once that has been done, I fail to see how any serious student of world affairs can quarrel with it.

From the earliest days of the motor car industry, before the A.L.A.M. was established, patent infringement loomed as a serious and vexing problem.

A 12-year-old girl, Susan Elaine Smith, 9329 NE Schuyler St. was in serious condition Friday at Bess Kaiser Hospital, victim of a bicycle-auto collision in the Gateway Shopping Center, parking area, Deputy Sheriff W. H. Forsyth reported.

Hindemith's joust with Weber tunes was a considerably more serious misfortune, for it demands transluscent textures, buoyant rhythms, and astringent wit.

Actually, the program they sang was at least two-thirds serious and high-minded, and they sang it beautifully.

There were no depressingly serious cases: the ward doctor sometimes teamed up with the chaplain to serve as a marriage counselor -- sometimes the Navy sent people back to the States to preserve a marriage -- but mental health as a rule was very high.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

He apparently did not think the wound was serious at the time, and so he sent his personal physician to attend to some wounded captured Union soldiers instead.

His reign was the most peaceful in the entire history of the Principate ; while there were several military disturbances throughout the Empire in his time, in Mauretania, Iudaea, and amongst the Brigantes in Britannia, none of them are considered serious.

" More serious than the destruction of the Gothic army ," writes Herwig Wolfram, " than the loss of both Aquitanian provinces and the capital of Toulose, was the death of the king.

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.