As of the 2009 release of The Proposal, Mark Kermode said she's made only three " good " films in her career — Speed, While You Were Sleeping, and Crash, and says " she's funny, she's gorgeous, it's impossible not to love her and yet she makes rotten film after rotten film after rotten film.

Proposal from this Consortium made as part of the Common's " Smogbuster " package for fighting car-related pollution and other problems in French cities.

I defy any Person to say I ever Refused an Offer of that Sort: On the contrary, I readily Consented to the only Proposal of Marriage that ever was made me, which was when I was a Virgin ; but too easily confiding in the Person ’ s Sincerity that made it, I unhappily lost my own Honour, by trusting to his ; for he got me with Child, and then forsook me: That very Person you all know ; he is now become a Magistrate of this County ; and I had hopes he would have appeared this Day on the Bench, and have endeavoured to moderate the Court in my Favour ; then I should have scorn ’ d to have mention ’ d it ; but I must Complain of it as unjust and unequal, that my Betrayer and Undoer, the first Cause of all my Faults and Miscarriages ( if they must be deemed such ) should be advanced to Honour and Power, in the same Government that punishes my Misfortunes with Stripes and Infamy.

Proposal have been made for a sandy beach, or for a garbage transfer pier.

The controversial failure of the Greens / Green Party USA ( G / GPUSA ) to endorse the Boston Proposal at its annual Congress in 2001 in Carbondale, Illinois, usually referred to as Carbondale ( in combination with subsequent events, and the decision of the Association of State Green Parties ( ASGP ) to endorse the Boston Proposal and follow through with the commitments made in it ) ultimately led a large number of G / GPUSA members to leave the organization.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre writer / creator Kim Henkel cited " A Modest Proposal " as an influence in scripting his 2011 horror film " Boneboys ," directed by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks.

On the December 13, 2010 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen reads a passage of A Modest Proposal in support of Ted Turner's suggestions on reducing overpopulation by having poor people sell ( to rich people ) their right to bear a single child per family.

Once the proposal is accepted by both the creditors and the Court, the debtor makes the payments to the Proposal Administrator each month ( or as otherwise stipulated in their proposal ), and the general creditors are prevented from taking any further legal or collection action.

His proposals for peace can be seen here: Proposal for Peace, promoted by Commander Massoud.

* Paideia Problems and Possibilities: A Consideration of Questions Raised by The Paideia Proposal ( 1983 )

This is a collection of fifteen selected non-fiction entries that had been published in Analog magazine over the years ; it includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin, including " The Hypersonic Skyhook ", " Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet " ( co-authored with David A. Baker ), " Colonizing the Outer Solar System ", " Terraforming Mars " ( co-authored with Christopher McKay ), and " The Magnetic Sail ".

On April 18, 2008, while Bullock was in Massachusetts shooting the film The Proposal, she and her then-husband were in an SUV that was hit head-on ( driver's side offset ) at moderate speed by a drunken driver.

The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the immorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity ( Yahoos ); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of A Modest Proposal.

This counter-insurgency unit was formed by South Africa after the adoption of UNSCR 435, and was not, therefore, mentioned in the Settlement Proposal or related documents.

* Proposal for a Privacy Protection Guideline on Secret Personal Data Gathering and Transborder Flows of Such Data in the Fight against Terrorism and Serious Crime by Marcel Stuessi

* U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission Proposal for First-Time Application of International Financial Reporting Standards by Foreign private issuers registered with the SEC

Flag Proposal in 1990 before independence by the Social Democrats ( Slovenia ) | Party of Democratic Reform

Cameron Diaz has been rumored for What Men Want, a romantic comedy sequel currently being written by Pete Chiarelli ( The Proposal ).

There exists an international online dialogue list server group, facilitated by Don Factor, co-author of a paper called " Dialogue-A Proposal ," with David Bohm and Peter Garrett.

These were selected from around 200 scientific proposals submitted on the basis of an Invitation for Proposals issued by ESA in 1982, and prioritised by the Scientific Proposal Selection Committee in consultation with the Input Catalogue Consortium.

The Network ’ s stated mission is " preserving and expanding private property rights in Michigan by elevating public awareness of these rights and how to protect them ; encouraging policymakers to respect property rights when crafting laws and regulations ; and identifying, organizing and supporting concerned property owners, thereby establishing an effective statewide property-rights coalition .” In 2006 initiative scholars “ educated legislators who drafted the Proposal 4 ballot measure that prevents Kelo-type takings in Michigan .” The network has held citizen meetings around the state raising consciousness regarding both physical taking of private property via the government ’ s power of eminent domain and by regulatory taking.

" The Proposal " by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

* 1901: Proposal accepted by Hong Kong Government.

* Flakpanzer 38 ( t ) Kugelblitz Proposal to mount the turret from a Flakpanzer IV Kugelblitz on a Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) chassis.

" He continued, " Like ' Proposal ', ' Wants ' isn ’ t a bad program, but it feels stale and rehashed.

In his book A Modest Proposal ( 1984 ), evangelical author Frank Schaeffer emulated Swift's work in social conservative polemic against abortion and euthanasia in a future dystopia that advocated recycling of aborted embryos and fetuses, as well as some disabled infants with compound intellectual, physical and physiological difficulties.

* A Modest Proposal BBC Radio 4 In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg

On September 19, 2008, the 35th anniversary of Parsons ' death, it was first presented to the Country Music Association ( CMA ) and Hall as a " List of Supporters " together with the official Nomination Proposal.

* The New Capitalists: A Proposal to Free Economic Growth from the Slavery of Savings ( 1961, with Louis O. Kelso )

2009 proved to be especially good for Bullock, giving the actress two record highs in her career, as earlier in the year she released The Proposal, with co-star Ryan Reynolds, a huge hit that took in more than $ 314 million at the box office worldwide, making it her most successful picture to date.

The NSF established an Office of Scientific Computing in 1984 and, with strong congressional support, it quickly announced a national competition that would fund a set of supercomputer centers like the one described in the Black Proposal.

The Black Proposal was approved in 1985 and marked the foundation of NCSA, with $ 42, 751, 000 in funding from 1 January 1985 through 31 December 1989.

* The Proposal ( 2009 ) Scenes with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds were filmed at Beverly Airport in May 2008.

These plans have become controversial though, and in January 2008 the Planning Board of Neptune stated the North End Redevelopment Proposal was " inconsistent with the town's Master Plan ".

According to Dialogue a Proposal Factor, Garrett, this kind of dialogue should not be confused with discussion or debate, both of which, says Bohm, suggest working towards a goal or reaching a decision, rather than simply exploring and learning.

He claimed to have destroyed all his paintings in 1850 but three of them are still at the Tate Gallery, London: The Proposal ( The Marquis and Griselda ) ( circa 1850 ), Morte d ' Arthur ( circa 1850 – 55 ), and Mother and Child ( circa 1854 ) along with a pencil drawing of his mother ( 1850 ).

The Racial Equality Proposal put forth by the Japanese did not directly conflict with any of these core British interests.

However, as the conference progressed the full implications of the Racial Equality Proposal, regarding immigration to the British Dominions ( with Australia taking particular exception ), would become a major point of contention within the delegation.

Each régime followed these actions with formal ideological statements ; in June 1963, the PRC published The Chinese Communist Party ’ s Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement, and the USSR replied with an Open Letter of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ; these were the final, formal communications between the two Communist parties.

He also demonstrated his future skills as an advocate in a pamphlet entitled " Observations on the Prevailing Abuses in the British Army Arising from the Corruption of Civil Government with a Proposal toward Obtaining an Addition to Their Pay ".

* 1961 – Proposal to demolish Flinders Street station and replace it with office blocks.

* Flash Player 7: Additions include CSS styling for text and support for ActionScript 2. 0, a programming language based on the ECMAScript 4 Netscape Proposal with class-based inheritance.

Zöllner's question was addressed to a broad intellectual public, in reply to Biester's essay entitled: " Proposal, not to engage the clergy any longer when marriages are conducted " ( April 1783 ) and a number of leading intellectuals replied with essays, of which Kant's is the most famous and has had the most impact.