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306 examples of Proposition in a sentence

But Obama viewed involvement in Syria as an all-or-nothing proposition: either the US deployed 200,000 troops to occupy the country for decades, or it would have to leave the fight to flawed local partners, perhaps wielding US-provided weapons.
It is such an absurd proposition – Italy has never defaulted, though it did, under Mussolini, try to go its “own way,” with disastrous results – that one wonders whether Grillo is capable of distinguishing between policy and comedy.
As much as Iraq’s Sunnis fear for their future, the Shia majority, now overseeing the untested proposition of a Shia-led Arab state, also have reasons to be fearful.
This proposition was recently tested anew on Icelandic data and performed well.
Instead I received a short dissertation from one of the female students on how older married women often proposition her in nightclubs.
He would, however, run the risk of alienating his liberal base, making discussion of Israel a lose-lose proposition.
Perhaps for Trump, the pro-Saudi, anti-Iran embrace is just another business proposition.
But, more important, it holds out the prospect that a people can chart its own path, free from external pressure – a particularly attractive proposition for countries that remain scarred by their colonial pasts.
The proposition is ultimately simple: use computers not just to find good employees, but also to help people become better employees.
The first, Eaton writes, is an “ideological proposition” that has “never materialized in Muslim history because no Muslim state has even been theocratic.”
As a result, capital expenditure – already a fragile proposition, given weak demand – has plummeted, triggering a vicious circle of shrinking GDP, lower tax revenues, higher expenditures, and further destabilization of public-debt positions.
Keynes’s endorsement of such a policy does not necessarily make it right, but his analysis does suggest that it should be regarded as a serious proposition.
The generalized version of this proposition is that secular stagnation – the persistent underuse of potential resources – is the fate of all economies that rely on private investment to fill the gap between income and consumption.
At first sight, that proposition seems reasonable enough.
Older TRT members mostly treat politics as a commercial proposition and see reform as a threat.
Launching losing wars may make Islamists feel good, but being defeated is a costly proposition, for their arrogance and belligerence antagonizes many who might otherwise be won over to their cause.
But, if the eurozone is to be a sensible long-term proposition, mere survival is not enough.
Brexit is, and will remain, a lose-lose proposition.
To be sure, starting a new market is always an uncertain proposition: people want to go to parties only if a lot of other people are there; if no one is there, no one wants to come.
One development that could change this forecast is if China comes to view investing in US financial assets as a money-losing proposition.
It is certainly not an either/or proposition.
One error is to reject a true proposition; the other is to accept a false one.
Again, this is a risky proposition, given that elderly, middle-class, and low-income Americans rely heavily on these programs.
Indeed, nuclear energy is a safer proposition now than ever before, but, for many people, the mere spectacle of an event like Fukushima – regardless of the outcome – is sufficient to draw the opposite conclusion.
Handing power back to the masses through direct democracy may well be these parties’ most revolutionary proposition.
It was based on the proposition that, as long as everyone agreed that changes to Northern Ireland’s constitutional status could come only as a result of free democratic choice, people could assert their loyalty to their preferred identity: British, Irish, or even both.
Rarely, has history provided a more precise controlled experiment to test a political proposition - and prove it false.
Given the eurozone’s past problems, this is an extremely dangerous proposition.
But global governance is not an either/or proposition.
This is a challenge for the general proposition of self-help, and also for my own new venture: the Health Initiative Coordinating Council (HICCup), which will advise five communities competing to win the HICCup Prize for the greatest improvement, according to five metrics, in health (not health care) over five years.
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