Herewith, then, a modest proposal for the privileged masses en route to a sodden campaign at their Bacchanalian playgrounds.
We suggest a modest proposal to let these practical voices be heard.
Most whites applauded his decision to crush a strike of African coalminers, but a modest proposal to increase the number of Africans educationally qualified to vote, from 2% to about 16%, met with hostility.
In the House, a modest proposal from the Intelligence Committee to enhance cybersharing between the private sector and the National Security Agency was met with a presidential veto threat over alleged privacy concerns and was never even considered by the Senate.
So what we put in place was a modest first proposal, including freezing non-security discretionary spending.
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In the 18th century, Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, made a "modest proposal" to deal with the "surplus" of the children of impoverished women in Ireland.
Now, I just want to point out -- and this brings me to the second problem -- when we made a very modest proposal as part of our package, our health care reform package, to eliminate the subsidies going to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage, we were attacked across the board, by many on your aisle, for slashing Medicare.
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As Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush unveiled his wide-ranging Medicare overhaul plan in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth, R-Delaware, placed the finishing touches on a modest prescription drug benefit proposal he intends to debut later this week.
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Perhaps the government has cooled over his modest proposal to provide a way of overturning such things as over-cautious health and safety rulings.
He described the proposal as "a modest extension to the season to enable Rangers FC to represent the SPL and all of Scottish football in the Uefa Cup final".
In fact, the potential for educational mobile apps is in itself a mind-boggling aspect of my modest little proposal.
The snag with this proposal is that it would raise only a modest amount of money even now only 40% of students pay the full amount but could deter access.
Modest proposal for the hotel industry: Charge only a nickel a minute and raise your room rate.
It might then consider adopting another quite modest proposal, recently advanced by Ira Millstein, a leading lawyer and corporate-governance reformer, and a rule long observed in more shareholder-friendly places such as Britain: if, by withholding support, shareholders cast more votes against a candidate than in favour, he should not be elected to the board.
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The NFL will present a proposal including the 18-game season and a more modest rollback of the percentage share allocated to players from the previous collective bargaining agreement.
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This modest proposal will preserve that small-store character by allowing stores a maximum of 40 feet on the street.
The party leader's surprising proposal to extend popular elections from villages to larger townships marks a modest but significant step in the country's political evolution.
But the bigger reason why the new proposal is likely to prove modest is that it is based on a number of assumptions, and not all are true.
While they caution that any changes would be relatively modest, particularly near the capital's monuments, their proposal has reactivated a debate that has come and gone over the years, pitting preservationists against advocates of more growth.
McCain has irked many of Republican faithful with his modest tax cut proposal and repeated calls for sweeping campaign finance reforms that many fear will give a decided edge to the Democrats in the fund-raising department.
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