counterproposal

Updated: May 5, 2025

But it took him more than three months to come to this conclusion. He always found the proceedings at Cabinet meetings particularly hard to follow. The interchange of question and answer, of proposal and counterproposal, the crowded counsellors, Mr. Gladstone's subtleties, the abrupt and complicated resolutions these things invariably left him confused and perplexed.

Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians