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Proposition in sentence

306 examples of Proposition in a sentence

So, you'd hear something occur well before you saw it--a very confusing proposition!
When Billy gives some "misunderstood" advice to Danny, Danny offers a proposition to Billy, if he kills his ex wife, Billy has to kill his mother.
The proposition that a machine is capable of transforming matter into energy, storing it, and then transporting it and reasembling it is at the least intriguing.
It's like the pilot of a bad "going away to college for the first time" teen soap, a parade of boring stereotypes and cliches with some gratuitous violence thrown in to make it a commercial proposition, I guess.
Within the first 10 minutes he's given a proposition by Andre 3000 and Big Pussy (of Soprano's fame) which makes NO SENSE AT ALL! Then there's some shooting and then there's Ray Liotta wearing embarrassing bikini briefs, then there's some animation, Ray Liotta's naked butt, lots of shooting, teeth gnashing, art house wanna be pretensions and more of Liotta's embarrassing body that elicited laughs at every showing...which I'm not quite sure was the reaction he was looking for...not 5 times anyway.
It's certainly a horrifying proposition to waste your time watching this crap.
It's a shame that an interesting aesthetic proposition like having almost no dialog is completely wasted in a film than makes no effort in examining the psychology of its characters with some dignity, and achieving true emotional resonance.
I liked the version with William Shatner (Iron Chef USA) because it was so over-the-top like the original, but I can tell it was a pretty expensive proposition.
The huge commercial success of that Mae West vehicle convinced the studio brass that Gay '90s melodramas were a viable proposition.
Making a documentary about a philosopher is a particularly difficult proposition; with most other subjects, we welcome and enjoy varying interpretations, but, with philosophy, we tend to resist variance, because the very aim of philosophy, at least until Post-Structuralists came along, has always been to arrive at the Truth.
This proposition was so stultifying, it left me speechless.
It would take a colder heart than mine to turn aside from the redemption through innocence proposition that is at the centre of "The Secret Garden"
A cult classic, this send-up of alien invasion stories, pulp fiction heroes, and adventure movies is a love/hate proposition; while I found it to be brilliant fun, many of my friends thought it was incomprehensible!
Count Dracula comes to an aged Dr. Frankenstein, currently working in a carnival fun house, with a proposition.
In general, life can be a most trying proposition even in the best of times; and simply negotiating the daily grind can be exasperating for even the most resilient among us.
A beautiful, young, American couple goes to England because of a mysterious business proposition and because the movie takes place there 'cause it's always gloomy and foggy and coldish and this is a supernatural thriller in a big house and finally because most couple in these derivative though sometimes enjoyable outings are a bit on the slow side.
Getting a veteran of movie videos and commercials to direct a feature film is invariably a risky proposition.
The Item is most definitely a love it or hate it proposition of a movie.
A variety of studies confirming this proposition, including one by the IMF’s chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, have withstood considerable scrutiny and leave little room for ambiguity.
His fundamental proposition was that development is about people.
Somewhere in the middle there is an optimal policy – a common-sense proposition that is often missing from the debate.
Now in its eighth year, the almost obscene economic growth in the United States could be used to illustrate the inverse proposition.
Direct diplomatic and strategic engagement between the US and Iran at the highest levels is a proposition yet to be tested.
At its heart lay a simple proposition: the republicans, who called for and bombed for a United Ireland – hammering together the predominantly Protestant North and the overwhelmingly Catholic South – accepted that constitutional change could come only through the ballot box.
With many of today’s advanced economies near or approaching the 90%-of-GDP level that loosely marks high-debt periods, expanding today’s already large deficits is a risky proposition, not the cost-free strategy that simplistic Keynesians advocate.
Economically, this is a lose-lose proposition for the UK, which will now forego the benefits of free exchange with the rest of the EU, as well as the contributions of hard-working, tax-paying EU migrants.
In today’s Germany, an overwhelming majority subscribes to the proposition that 8 May 1945 was a day of liberation – not only for Europe, but also for Germany itself.
On the left side of the German political spectrum, the proposition that 8 May 1945 was a day of liberation remains unchallenged.
That is a surprising proposition, given that commodity bonds have an obvious latent market, rooted in real economic fundamentals.
There is also evidence to support that proposition from the observable fact that rewards in the less regulated parts of the asset management sector- hedge funds etc- are typically higher than in Security and Exchange Commission regulated competitors.
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