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

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