Example collocations logo

Proposition in sentence

306 examples of Proposition in a sentence

Some courts are following suit, with one US federal judge describing the types of confessions obtained as “worthless as evidence,” and another noting that, given recent developments, claims of SBS may be “more an article of faith than a proposition of science.”
The proposition that governments “must do something about competitiveness” risks leading to an excessively activist approach to economic policy coordination, with governments and EU institutions constantly trying to influence wage-setting in the private sector.
It could be a win-win proposition, even for the start-ups.
But the proposition that the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis on Europe’s periphery is a reason to appoint a European is wrong.
But the opportunity goes beyond the world of shopping, to all the stuff out there that Google helps you find (and that is so enticing but ultimately limited as a business proposition).
Fortunately, insularity is not an “all or nothing” moral proposition.
The first option is a losing proposition.
Ferguson, too, can make a sound argument for such a proposition.
A third proposition is that inequality translates into envy and unhappiness: someone who would have been happy at a given income is unhappy if he discovers that others are getting more.
That today’s global financial meltdown is the direct consequence of the West’s worship of false gods is a proposition that cannot be discussed, much less acknowledged.
In just 272 words, Lincoln synthesized America as an ideal based on the proposition that all men are created equal.
The revelation that O’Reilly and Fox News’s parent company had paid $13 million to multiple women to settle complaints of sexual harassment against him made him a high-risk proposition to advertisers, many of which decided that the danger of alienating their customers – and their own employees – was too great.
Those who seem more interested in disproving the case for negotiation than in disarming North Korea should reflect on the fact that their ultra-realism has aided and abetted a regime dedicated to the proposition that eventually the world will come to accept its nuclear status.
That intervention was a lose-lose proposition for the ECB.
This is at least a more interesting proposition than the notion that art should be disqualified just because we don’t like the way the artist behaved in private.
To be sure, the IMF rejected this proposition in 2011, because the renminbi did not yet meet the criteria of a freely convertible currency.
Natural selection as a theory becomes a proposition in play, needing much more work.
At the same time, the increasing emphasis in party journals on the proposition that China’s armed forces must be viewed as servants of the Communist Party, and not simply of the nation, seems to suggest concern that the military may be developing its own view of Chinese domestic affairs, in addition to proclaiming with increasing assertiveness its responsibility for national security.
But opening those markets is feasible only if the authorities eliminate the perception that exchange-rate movements are a one-way proposition.
Moreover, even if the political will to launch third-arrow structural reforms were suddenly to strengthen – a dubious proposition – any productivity payback would most likely take a long time to materialize.
For example, a group called Calexit is trying to introduce a California ballot proposition to secede from the US.
But a fundamental proposition in economics holds that when individuals are free to engage in trade, the size of the economic pie increases enough that the winners could, in theory, compensate the losers, leaving everyone better off.
This proposition is not unheard of in Japan.
The BIS BashersPRAGUE – It might seem an unlikely proposition, but central banking has become exciting.
In the meantime, China will continue to act – as the US once did – on the recognition that claiming and retaining the mantle of global leadership is a long-term proposition, one that often entails short-term financial costs.
A global Marshall Plan for shared river basins might at first seem like an expensive proposition; but the cost of inaction – consider the threat to Europe alone posed by massive refugee inflows – easily could be several orders of magnitude higher.
The more Eastern Europe’s countries take these steps, the more apparent it will be that integration is a win-win proposition rather than a costly bail-in, the sooner the West will move.
These days, the more pervasive competitive threat comes from companies in other domains that can erode the customer value proposition after the car is sold.
But realizing that value is a long-term proposition.
In the past, hand-in-glove cooperation between authoritarian governments and the chaebols was a powerful way to mobilize and allocate resources, even though many now doubt the benefits of that proposition.
Back