Sentences with phrase «modest proposals»

These modest proposals will get you on your way to a big fat check quickly and with a minimum of risk.

It is, however, always good to keep these modest proposals in mind as one writes a decision.

It is only by making modest proposals, rather than by making promises of the deadly abundance, that the climate establishment can maintain its grip over the political agenda.

But the group shows that have stayed with me have been more modest proposals, such as «The New Monumentality» at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, with Gerard Byrne, Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster and Dorit Margreiter: an askance but thoughtful look at some good work and interesting ideas.

A book of his selected writings, Modest Proposals, was published by Baglam Press, Istanbul in 2005.

These are modest proposals, but either could be a start on the path away from a self - defeating curriculum of basic «skills» and towards a richer and more meaningful school experience for all D.C. public school students and their teachers.

Poland, a historical British ally, said Cameron would struggle to win support during the renegotiations for his more modest proposals to restrict access to in - work benefits such as tax credits and housing benefit.

The modest proposals for a financial transaction tax constitute one small ray of hope in utter darkness.

The modest proposals so far incorporated in Standing Orders does something to address the unfairness in the lop sided devolution settlement Conservative governments inherited from Labour.

On Wednesday both the Democrat - led Assembly and the GOP - controlled Senate took up rival state budget bills that contained only modest proposals when it comes to ethics or corruption.

I have two modest proposals for the Archbishop.

Labour's attack on the Lib Dem's relatively modest proposals goes against the otherwise more liberal direction Miliband has taken and runs counter to many of the things Labour say they want to achieve in government.

«That's the basic, relatively modest proposals that were in the coalition agreement, and there's no obvious excuse or good reason for David Cameron to block that bill now.

The big question surrounding the Party Power Players is whether their likely modest proposals and patient negotiating will be enough to satisfy the Maastricht Veterans and associates.

Why do I suggest this as opposed to the more modest proposals of a constitutional code (the Cabinet Office telling us what we already have in simple form) or a constitutional consolidation act (a detailed statement from the Law Commission of what we already have)?

He prefers his much more modest proposals because, unlike me, he is motivated by a commitment to a clear principle.

Even with the President's modest proposal, real reform will almost certainly take an act of Congress.

Although the percentage of Canadians who accept the modest proposal of putting more content about Asia in the curriculum has now grown to 50 per cent, a stunning 58 per cent oppose putting more emphasis on Asian languages in the school system.

So here's a modest proposal: why doesn't the federal government get things rolling by pushing for reform of supply management — that convoluted mess of federal and provincial policies that actually make it an offence for farmers to sell milk and poultry across provincial boundaries?

Rick Mercer made a modest proposal.

And in Atwood's sly juxtaposition of epigraphs from Genesis and Swift's «A Modest Proposal,» another bomb drops: the Handmaid idea originated with a woman and is connectable, via Swift, with cannibalism.

Is that not the argument from Swift's «A Modest Proposal»?

Here are 6 possible answers to why God delayed in sending Jesus, following with my own modest proposal.

For example, by way of a modest proposal, process thought seems singularly well equipped to develop a theology of work, in the full Marxist sweep of the term: man's self - creativity in society.

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Dean Swift should have lived to see his modest proposal become establishment orthodoxy.

It's a modest proposal, a letter like this.

The outright rejection of this modest proposal is a step backwards for reconciliation, and disrespects both the people, and the process, which entailed a long period of consultation and collaboration among a broad cross-section of Indigenous Australian communities.

A modest proposal: most goalscorers are happy to have scored a goal.

Another modest proposal: If we can consider a football crowd as a single entity, albeit one with multiple voices, then we have to concede that quite a lot of the time, beyond all the singing and supporting and general atmosphere generation, that single entity is a dick.

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Modest proposal to avoid the mess up at the Miss Universe pageant: Don't objectify women & pit them against each other for a fucking princess tiara.

In his Beltway Blogroll site, Danny Glover makes a modest proposal for a solution:

In a news release the National Employment Law Project refers to state proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 8.50 and then tie future increases to the rate of inflation a «more modest proposal» — which is probably news to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the main backer of the bill since January.

Here's a modest proposal: potential political staff can smoke pot * AND speak their minds about things that matter, as long as they don't reveal themselves to be hateful bastards.

YouGovs Peter Kellner recently offered a Modest Proposal in last months Prospect Magazine: Lets drive the BNP right out of British politics by introducing AV for local elections.

It is a very modest proposal.

It's actually rather astonishing that such a modest proposal is so contentious, especially when the Good Friday Agreement is explicit about recognising the equality of Irish identity.

Absent a move to cut the personal income tax, this modest proposal misses the mark.

A more modest proposal by Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, to raise the national minimum wage to $ 12 an hour won the backing of the Obama administration and several key congressional Democrats this spring.

The Cuomo - backed plan would grant New York City's entire uniformed work force with the same line - of - duty retirement benefits, versus de Blasio's more modest proposal to increase pensions for more recent hires, while still keeping them lower than those received by their more senior colleagues.

Commuter, I have a better, albeit more modest proposal — why don't we just take all those useless reitrees, execute them then cook them up to serve to the poor?

The article's title was a nod to Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay, «A Modest Proposal,» which mocked harsh British policies in Ireland by suggesting that the Irish alleviate their poverty by selling their children as meat to the English gentry.

His article, «Mission to Earth's core — a modest proposal,» described a way to send a small probe directly to the center of the Earth.

And also for you dog people, we won't get into it in much detail, but my column in this issue, the Antigravity column, I suggest a modest proposal, if you will; that in order to answer some of the charges of creationists that there is no proof of evolution — we never saw any speciation in action actually happen, well, why don't we just say, the differences dog breeds [are] different species?

Roman's modest proposal had little impact when it first appeared.

A modest proposal was published recently in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, an editorial calling for longitudinal study of dementia prevention.

Addie has come over to offer a modest proposal: she and Louis are both alone and lonely, and the nights are the worst.

And since we don't want to get pension and teacher union officials in trouble, we have a modest proposal, inspired by Professor Alfred Kahn, President Carter's anti-inflation czar.