He has known her for only a month but is seriously proposing marriage.
A large number of origins have been more or less seriously proposed.
No one is seriously proposing higher income or payroll taxes to meet the cost of the health program.
Of course, the adultery law would never be seriously proposed or enacted.
No one has seriously proposed that a computer should receive a share of the profits from an invention - at least not yet.
It is now hard to believe such a plan was ever seriously proposed, but in 1958 it came close to happening.
Nobody seems to be seriously proposing around here, she said bitterly.
"Duke, are you seriously proposing to finish a card game while we're being attacked?"
But nobody seriously proposed the convertibility of the dollar into gold.
The Russian "green movement" has seriously proposed bombing them.