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306 examples of Proposition in a sentence

But it is a risky proposition: if investors exit nonetheless, the required funds might be so large that creditor countries’ taxpayers’ revolt.
It’s a proposal that deserves further investigation, as is the proposition from William McGreevey of Georgetown University to increase efforts to focus treatment of HIV positive patients to reduce opportunistic infections of Cryptococcal Meningitis.
Even with respect to the obvious proposition of encouraging more people, and especially the young, to start their own business, governments have adopted the wrong approach.
One party, he says, makes the strongest arguments for a proposition “whether they believe it or not,” and the opposing party pays somebody to make the strongest counter-arguments.
Yet underlying this idea is a serious proposition, to which Britain’s former prime minister, Tony Blair, often gave eloquent expression: democracies don’t fight each other, so if the whole world were democratic, wars would stop.
With mounting concerns about climate change and volatility in oil and other fossil-fuel prices, renewables are finally becoming a viable proposition.
And in areas where research and development is not an attractive proposition, developers must be provided an opportunity to make a return from useful products.
But, as the Treasury recognized, eliminating the regulators is a problematic proposition.
To encourage China to take the lead in fostering national reconciliation in Burma, the international community must convince China that pushing for reform and change can be a win-win proposition.
The proposition that trade restrictions reduce economic welfare is certainly not generally valid, and it is violated when certain conditions – such as externalities or increasing returns to scale – are present.
Likewise, the proposition that rent controls reduce the supply of housing is violated under conditions of imperfect competition.
And the proposition that floating exchange rates are an effective system relies on assumptions about the workings of the monetary and financial system that have proved problematic;I suspect a poll today would find significantly less support for it.
But that finding, like the policy advice that they offered in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, was not intended to support the proposition that a recession is a good time to undertake fiscal contraction.
But research by yet another Harvard colleague, Alberto Alesina, does bear much more directly on the proposition that austerity is appropriate under today’s conditions.
They need to make money but have no idea about risk, as demonstrated by the fact that they loaned money to every losing proposition of the past 15 years.
In this context, a new wealth tax could be a dangerous proposition for the PD.
This gauntlet of scrutiny is why young women with great leadership qualities are often reluctant to enter the public eye: they see this abuse, whether “positive” or negative, as a no-win proposition, one that powerful men simply do not face.
The problem, of course, is that affecting the trajectories of other societies is typically a difficult, long-term proposition; in the meantime, there are pressing global challenges that need to be addressed, sometimes with the assistance of unsavory regimes.
But, when the issue was put to California voters in 2008, they overwhelmingly supported a proposition requiring that all farm animals have room to stretch their limbs fully and turn around without touching other animals or the sides of their cage.
Virtually the only proposition on which international economists agree is that the sum of all trade balances must equal zero.
With oil prices experiencing a prolonged slump, and new sources (for example, Iran) coming onstream, the Saudis will not find dipping into financial reserves quite as effortless a proposition as it has been in the past.
Structural reform, however, is a more difficult proposition, with strongly entrenched interests and cultural values militating against change and opening up a partly closed economy.
Unsurprisingly, Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin condemned the US attack, claiming that it violated international law – a questionable proposition, given that Syria is a signatory to the international treaty banning chemical weapons.
The dollar depreciation engineered by the US Federal Reserve seems an appealing proposition from the American standpoint, but the economies of Latin America cannot and should not bear the burden of dollar realignment.
That was once an attractive proposition for countries like the Soviet Union, which was closer to the world of George Orwell’s own dystopian novel 1984.
In the wake of that victory, America doubled down on the proposition that daring beat knowing.
Rudyard Kipling got his arithmetic right in 1886:No proposition Euclid wrote,No formulae the text-books know,Will turn the bullet from your coat,Or ward the tulwar’s downward blowStrike hard who cares – shoot straight who can –The odds are on the cheaper man.
Cameron’s central proposition is that Britain is in a state of “crisis,” and that getting through it will require fortitude and patience.
Although PiS solemnly promised that the Sejm (parliament) would not reject the latter bill in the first reading, the legislation criminalizing abortion was advanced to a parliamentary vote, and the pro-choice proposition was rejected.
A prominent venture capitalist, Tim Draper, wants to put a proposition on the ballot to split California into six separate states.
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