At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

** Lollia Paulina as she was a rival for Claudius ’ hand in marriage as proposed by the freedman Callistus.

In 1428, he received a letter from Yeshaq I of Ethiopia, borne by two dignitaries, which proposed an alliance against the Muslims and would be sealed by a dual marriage that would require the Infante Peter to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

Holly proposed marriage to her on their very first date.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

In April the Spanish ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, wrote to King Philip of Spain that it had been proposed that if Anjou were to travel to England to negotiate his marriage to the Queen, Oxford, Surrey and Windsor should be hostages for his safe return.

Oxford was sympathetic to the proposed marriage, Leicester and his nephew Philip Sidney were adamantly opposed to it.

Some Hungarian nobles proposed that Ferdinand, who was ruler of neighbouring Austria and tied to Louis II's family by marriage, be King of Hungary, citing previous agreements that the Habsburgs would take the Hungarian throne if Louis died without heirs.

He proposed marriage but was rejected ( TNG: " The Emissary ").

During one of these, he proposed marriage.

In 1891, he visited Gonne in Ireland and proposed marriage, but was rejected.

Waltheof was married to William's niece Judith, daughter of Adelaide, and a marriage between Edwin and one of William's daughters was proposed.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis states that Edwin's reason for revolting was that the proposed marriage between himself and one of William's daughters had not taken place, but other reasons probably included the increasing power of William fitzOsbern in Herefordshire, which impacted Edwin's power within his own earldom.

The widow proposed marriage to William fitzOsbern, who was in Normandy, and fitzOsbern accepted.

Mary summoned Knox to Holyrood after hearing that he had been preaching against her proposed marriage to Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain.

When she became pregnant with the chief editor's child in 1926, he proposed marriage.

By 1953, Townsend was divorced from his first wife ; he proposed marriage to Margaret.

But within a year, he proposed marriage to her, and she accepted.

In the 20th century, if he could afford it, the typical Western groom privately selected and purchased an engagement ring, which he then presented to his desired bride when he proposed marriage.

** The Union of Krewo establishes the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania through the proposed marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Duke Jagiello of Lithuania, and sees the acceptance of Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite.

Columbo reportedly proposed marriage, but was killed in a shooting accident at the age of 26.

After Maurice's birth, the Prince proposed marriage, but his family forbade it and persuaded Bernhardt to refuse and end their relationship.

On September 13, 1947, Thurmond proposed marriage by calling Crouch to his office to take a dictated letter.

Other exotic baryons have been proposed, such as pentaquarks — baryons made of four quarks and one antiquark ( B = + + + − = 1 ), but their existence is not generally accepted.

* Toman: The new currency that is proposed by the Central Bank of Iran which would replace the Iranian Rial by slashing four zeros off the country's national currency.

Empedocles of Acragas proposed four archai by which to understand the cosmos: fire, air, water, and earth.

Mousnier proposed that France, in modern history, had at least four major social levels and nine sub-hierarchies.

A division of the circular single stranded viruses into four types has been proposed.

* Birkhoff's axioms: Birkhoff proposed four postulates for Euclidean geometry that can be confirmed experimentally with scale and protractor.

Moller International continues to develop the Skycar M400, which is powered by four pairs of in-tandem Wankel rotary engines, and is approaching the problems of satellite-navigation, incorporated in the proposed Small Aircraft Transportation System.

The conjecture was first proposed in 1852 when Francis Guthrie, while trying to color the map of counties of England, noticed that only four different colors were needed.

In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech ( technically the 1941 State of the Union address ), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people " everywhere in the world " ought to enjoy:

Zuse also proposed, but did not complete, carefully rounded floating – point arithmetic that would have included ±∞ and NaNs, anticipating features of IEEE Standard floating – point by four decades.

" The name " Olympique " was originally proposed but changed to Franciade to commemorate the fact that it had taken the revolution four years to establish a republican government in France.

The DNA double helix structure proposed by Watson and Crick was based upon " Watson-Crick " bonds between the four bases most frequently found in DNA ( A, C, T, G ) and RNA ( A, C, U, G ).

In 1842 the Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius proposed the term " halogen " – ἅλς ( háls ), " salt " or " sea ", and γεν-( gen -), from γίγνομαι ( gígnomai ), " come to be " – for the four elements ( fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine ) that produce a sea-salt-like substance when they form a compound with a metal.

In this capacity, Davis gave Congress four annual reports ( in December of each year ), as well as an elaborate one ( submitted on February 22, 1855 ) on various routes for the proposed Transcontinental Railroad.

An international mainline railway the Gulf Railway and a four line metro network is proposed.

Khoisan was proposed as one of the four families of African languages in Greenberg's classification ( 1949 – 1954, revised in 1963 ).

The WBA proposed a number of rule changes, including the use of five designated hitters to replace defensive players who would remain in the game ; the use of one designated runner per game ; the pitcher would be required to throw a pitch within 20 seconds ; a walk would be on three balls instead of the usual four ; and stealing home after the sixth inning would count as two runs.

Since then, four other novae explosions have been proposed as helium novae.

Further public criticism and disputes between Democrat senators resulted in Stott Despoja's resignation as leader on 21 August 2002, following presentation by four of her six colleagues ( those who had earlier enabled the passage of the GST ) with a ten-point ' reform ' agenda proposed by John Cherry.

In September 2003, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet proposed splitting Japan Post into four separate companies: A bank, an insurance company, a postal service company, and a fourth company to handle the post offices as retail storefronts of the other three.

" This definition was introduced in the paper in which Stevens proposed four levels of measurement.

In its report, the commission proposed that Olympic Games be held every four years and that the program for the Games be one of modern rather than ancient sports.

* HMS Sabrina, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy, and one proposed one

However, four proposed amendments submitted to the states by Congress remain pending for ratification: