Proposition in sentence

306 examples of Proposition in a sentence

As a society, we can achieve these human rights, if we accept the proposition that humans are not disabled.

My friends, many in their 50s and 60s, were looking at a downward mobility, a work-for-life proposition, just a job loss, medical diagnosis or divorce away from insolvency.

That's an attractive proposition.

It's a very different value proposition.

This worldview is implicitly grounded in the proposition that there are two kinds of people in the world, good people and bad people.

Now, this is a real proposition, and there are companies out there that really are offering this investment, but my interest in it is quite different.

Now, I know some of you in this room find this to be a risky proposition.

Despite the machine's promise of maximum net pleasure, he still found reason not to plug in, as do many other experimenters who consider the proposition.

Employers can view hiring people with a gap on their resume as a high-risk proposition, and individuals on career break can have doubts about their abilities to relaunch their careers, especially if they've been out for a long time.

Values that maintain the proposition that their prayers, and their prayers alone, maintain the cosmic balance.

Women reinforce this double standard when we compete to stay young, another punishing and losing proposition.

That's our value proposition in a prize.

Or there's one other marketing proposition: if you don't use our product, you'll die.

The proposition, which sought to make it illegal for homosexuals to work in Californian schools, would prove to be the biggest battle of Milk’s career.

And secondly, it's a fundamental business proposition.

And they both believed this would make an amazing film, of course, but it was a very high-risk proposition.

This proposition will be found on careful examination to express, in condensed form, the essential purport of the Theory, and to express in a few words all Mr. Darwin’s meaning; who, by a strange inversion of reasoning, seems to think Absolute Ignorance fully qualified to take the place of Absolute Wisdom in the achievements of creative skill."

So I said yes to this proposition.

I discovered a radical manufacturing proposition: biofabrication.

So, they're a much safer proposition.

For that is what we'll need, as we move forward to dream and imagine what it will really take to build a global economy that includes all of us, and to finally extend that fundamental proposition that all men are created equal to every human being on the planet.

So, that's my second proposition: Trust is an essential condition to a free society.

And so here is the fourth proposition.

I have a different proposition to suggest to you.

Some know how they do it, whether you call it your differentiated value proposition or your proprietary process or your USP.

I mean, it's just a losing proposition.

The debate is over the proposition: "What the world needs now is nuclear energy."

So, in favor of the proposition, possibly shockingly, is one of, truly, the founders of the environmental movement, a long-standing TEDster, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, someone we all know and love, Stewart Brand.

And then I find this: "All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition that the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its fundamental goal and purpose, a whole in which all facets of reality have their meaning and explanation in this central fact."

This work, which was published in "Nature," late 2009, after a number of years of analysis, led to the final proposition that we can only find nine planetary boundaries with which, under active stewardship, would allow ourselves to have a safe operating space.

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