"The teacher counsels troubled students"; "The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud"
"I aim to arrive at noon"
"he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"
"The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"
"He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"; "The candidate projects himself as a moderate and a reformer"