Proffering

Proffering my pump in the literal sense, not the "Bust Magazine" sense, it was clear that he had no idea of how to use it.

Minding the Gap: Performance Equipment BikeSnobNYC 2010

"Proffering often behind-the-scenes access, he has built an army of loyal followers among officers, politicians, analysts and journalists, disciples who have become known as COINdinistas for their ardent support of COIN, the de rigueur doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of Petraeus himself."

Al Gore and the Enquirer's non-checkbook journalism 2010

Proffering further spin of the GOP losses, Fox News contributor Mort Kondracke said, "We have no way of knowing" how the 2001 outcome would affect the 2002 midterms, a sentiment echoed by conservative writer Michael Barone, who declared on CNN, "I don't think that the issues and personalities" in the Virginia and New Jersey races "are going to be congruent with very many" races in 2002 or 2004.

Karl Frisch: The Right-Wing Media's Election Analysis Just Ain't That Good 2009

HOLMES: Proffering an olive branch, Iraq's government is holding a reconciliation conference today and it's opened the door for former members of Saddam Hussein's army to return and curb the violence.

CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2006 2006

Proffering an excuse, he left the room to plunge it in water.

Ultima Thule 2003

Proffering his arm, Lord Heath led her out onto the dance floor.

Chasing a Rogue Victoria Malvey 2002

Proffering you its felicitations to the discovery of the human blood groups, which discovery has been of such great importance for many branches of medical science, the Royal Caroline Medical Institute now invites you to receive from the hands of His Majesty the King the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Physiology or Medicine 1930 - Presentation Speech 1965

Proffering a palpable excuse I sauntered away, finally entering the office in which the files of the registration of the British military prisoners were being prepared.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

Proffering an envelope to Jack the watchman passed on to his duties.

Boy Scouts in Southern Waters 1909

Proffering them for the inspection of learned and unlearned, I of course foresaw that speedy sentence would be pronounced by that division, whose judgment, lying ebb and close to the surface, must needs first reach the light.

Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852