How to Use counterproposal in a Sentence

counterproposal

noun

• The failure of the RBI paves the way for the adoption of the government’s less stringent counterproposal.
  — Catherine Bosley, Bloomberg.com, 29 Nov. 2020
• The union made a counterproposal on class sizes, a CTU member said.
  — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• The players’ counterproposal is that those with salaries of $2,000 per month or less would maintain that for the entire term.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 20 May 2020
• Angle issued a counterproposal of $61 per share the next day, which Amazon agreed to.
  — Anissa Gardizy, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• And this week will be a huge test for this when -- when Republicans come back with that counterproposal.
  — ABC News, 16 May 2021
• Calvert said the church rushed the vote before a counterproposal could be presented.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• There were protests and counterproposals, with a final version of the plan unveiled only days before the school board’s vote.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 28 Aug. 2017
• But it was blocked by Democrats, who offered a counterproposal.
  — Annah Aschbrenner, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2020
• The union presented a counterproposal Friday evening, after a day and a half of sharp exchanges between the two sides.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2019
• Unsatisfied with Gill’s plan for the rangers, Serna came up with a counterproposal to hire more rangers.
  — Brad Branan, sacbee.com, 16 June 2017
• The latter didn’t even make it into House Democrats’ phase three counterproposal.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 2 Apr. 2020
• At the urging of Mayor Frank Zeidler, the union made its own counterproposal, but the breweries rejected that, too.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
• The union waited until early this month to present a 20-round counterproposal.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
• Between July 9 and 12, the sides swapped counterproposals two more times.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 July 2023
• Both sides claim the other has not responded to counterproposals, slowing the talks.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• The parties have agreed to meet again with the union’s full negotiating team, and the WGA is expected to respond to the studios’ counterproposal.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The GOP group unveiled the details of their counterproposal on Monday morning.
  — Sarah Kolinovsky, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2021
• Players’ counterproposal scuttles hope for a quick deal to start an MLB season.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2020
• The union's counterproposal called for a 70-game schedule, 10 more games than ownership's proposal made the day after Manfred and Clark met.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2020
• The union’s representatives worked through the weekend on a counterproposal, which was submitted Monday, but the two sides are still far apart.
  — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
• The union in a statement said the board failed to respond to a counterproposal and didn’t offer any proposals during this month’s talks, leading its members to initiate a strike.
  — Isabelle Sarraf, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• Ford's counterproposal offered 9% raises and lump sum payments over four years, while GM's offered 10% plus lump sums.
  — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Republicans have balked at his plans and this week offered a counterproposal on infrastructure that is only a fraction the size of what Mr. Biden wants to spend.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• Barker said the Senate’s counterproposal was to have no ongoing tax cuts, but a doubling of the one-time rebates, which would cost roughly $900 million, but only for one year.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• White House officials have been waiting to see where Republicans would land in the wake of their counterproposal -- and, depending on what the proposal looks like, want to have the group back to meet with Biden as soon as this week.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 25 May 2021
• Over the next three days, the sides exchanged several proposals and counterproposals focused on AI.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 July 2023
• More than 100 days into the writers’ strike, the studios came to the negotiating table with a counterproposal.
  — Vulture, 11 Aug. 2023
• Hamas offered fewer than 20 hostages in the latest counterproposal for a truce, CNN reported.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
• First, under his counterproposal, each state would be required to conduct two weeks of early voting.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 June 2021
• In a bid to jumpstart the negotiations, the administration lowered their proposal to $1.7 trillion this week and said the ball is now in the GOP's court to come up with a counterproposal.
  — ABC News, 23 May 2021

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024