put forward

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put forward something

to offer for consideration. None of the ideas I put forward at the meeting have been accepted. He's still working on the report and plans to put it forward as soon as he finishes it.

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The claim to Comedy is put forward by the Megarians,--not only by those of Greece proper, who allege that it originated under their democracy, but also by the Megarians of Sicily, for the poet Epicharmus, who is much earlier than Chionides and Magnes, belonged to that country. The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context Putting this, however, aside, for it is a puzzling question for which it is difficult to find a solution, let us return to the superiority of arms over letters, a matter still undecided, so many are the arguments put forward on each side; for besides those I have mentioned, letters say that without them arms cannot maintain themselves, for war, too, has its laws and is governed by them, and laws belong to the domain of letters and men of letters. Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context More results

References in classic literature

The claim to Comedy is put forward by the Megarians,--not only by those of Greece proper, who allege that it originated under their democracy, but also by the Megarians of Sicily, for the poet Epicharmus, who is much earlier than Chionides and Magnes, belonged to that country.

The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context

put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting

The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

Putting this, however, aside, for it is a puzzling question for which it is difficult to find a solution, let us return to the superiority of arms over letters, a matter still undecided, so many are the arguments put forward on each side; for besides those I have mentioned, letters say that without them arms cannot maintain themselves, for war, too, has its laws and is governed by them, and laws belong to the domain of letters and men of letters.

Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context

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