Synonym: arouse, assert, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, nominate, posit, put up, raise, state, stick, stir, submit. Similar words: bring forward, look forward to, afterward, doorway, but for, watch out for, award, toward. Meaning: v. 1. put before 2. insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized 3. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic 4. cause to protrude or as if to protrude 5. propose as a candidate for some honor.
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91. This week Mr Yeltsin put forward his own tough option.
92. To every argument she put forward he would inevitably find a counter, and she had no doubt that could go on for ever.
93. Michel Charasse has put forward an amendment which would allow cigarette advertising at the Grand Prix.
94. Westergaard and Resler put forward a conventional Marxist view of the ruling class.
95. Michael Scott describes the practical proposals put forward in a new report on this contentious issue.
96. Mr Trimble's opponents within unionism say they will put forward a motion to exclude Sinn Fein from government.
97. The argument most often put forward against tax relief for childcare is that it would be extremely costly to the Exchequer.
98. The general tone was to follow the case put forward by Maxse and the Chestertons.
99. And his thought was very fruitful: fore-shadowing differential and integral calculus, he put forward the useful idea of a limit.
100. Biased interpretations have now and again been put forward as propaganda to promote a country or political or religious ideologies.
101. The first such questions arises over the specific status of the evolutionary sequence which is being put forward.
102. Film theorists first put forward the proposition that the construction of the spectator in mainstream cinema is gendered.
103. The brilliant physicist Paul Dirac first put forward this theory back in 1990.
104. Tentative proposals for research towards highly interactive systems which adapt themselves to individual users and uses were put forward in 1984.
105. The infuriated Abbot put forward a test case by sending a monk with a wagonload of corn across the bridge.
106. Three possible explanations have been put forward[Sentencedict.com], each backed up by solid research and none likely to be the sole mechanism.
107. The proposal, put forward by Lothian, has the strong support of other big Labour council groups like Strathclyde and Tayside.
108. Against this background the member states of the Community asked the Commission to put forward proposals for achieving the single market.
109. All the good ideas put forward in these reports will serve only to elevate more people into the region of discontent.
110. In fact, the Newtonian problem is a much more awkward one than that put forward by Fredkin and Toffoli.
111. One influential argument about urban decline has been put forward by Fothergill and Gudgin and their associates. Sentencedict.com
112. Commoners have been consulted and a public report will be published, before the controversial Bill is put forward.
113. Many proposals have been put forward over more than 100 years.
114. A businessman has put forward proposals for the Chesnut Street park which is used by up to 60 lorries each week.
115. That was a novel concept for the Government to put forward. In some circumstances I would have welcomed such a discussion.
116. They entail quite different assumptions about the nature of literacy than those put forward by Hildyard and Olson.
117. Finally, the data available is often inadequate to test fully the theories put forward.
118. However, the following proposals are tentatively put forward as minimum requirements for most kinds of library. 1.
119. The right wing put forward a united front with the clear aim of overthrowing the republic.
120. No details are given of this hitherto unknown organisation, but the platform put forward by the paper looks like pure Thatcherism.
More similar words: bring forward, look forward to, afterward, doorway, but for, watch out for, award, toward, hardware, upwardly mobile, outfit, under way, act for, wait for, platform, set forth, except for, put, account for, portfolio, war, warn, put to, put in, put on, put out, put up, put off, output, input.