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- DictionaryPro·pos·al/prəˈpōz(ə)l/
noun
- 1. a plan or suggestion, especially a formal or written one, put forward for consideration or discussion by others: "a set of proposals for a major new high-speed rail link"
- 2. an offer of marriage: "surely a woman as beautiful as you has had proposals?"
19 hours ago · Franklin Delano Roosevelt[ a ] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.
19 hours ago · Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single group. As of 2022, roughly 40% of the world's national legislatures are bicameral, while unicameralism ...
19 hours ago · Portugal, [ d ] officially the Portuguese Republic, [ e ] is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe; its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean; and in ...
19 hours ago · Politics portal Economics portal. v. t. e. Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. [1] The concept applies mainly to political divisions (political parties) among voters. The essence of such systems is that all votes cast ...
19 hours ago · Self-determination[1] refers to a people 's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. [2][3] Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law, binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of the Charter ...
19 hours ago · The definition of "Ainu" by the Hokkaido Agency in this survey is "a person who seems to have inherited the blood of Ainu" or "the same livelihood as those with marriage or adoption." Additionally, if the other person is declared not to be "Ainu", then it is not subject to investigation. A 1971 survey determined an Ainu population of 77,000.
19 hours ago · The definition of multilingualism is a subject of debate in the same way as that of language fluency. At one end of the linguistic continuum, multilingualism may be defined as the mastery of more than one language. The speaker would have knowledge of and control over the languages equivalent to that of a native speaker.
