Sentence examples for a proposition that the from inspiring English sources

The system, Mr. Menon's character tells Shahid, "takes time, but it works," a proposition that the film believes, even as it shows the ways it doesn't.

In the week after the attacks, the AU announced its intent to send 5,000 peacekeeping troops to Burundi, a proposition that the Burundian government did not accept.

Sometimes it is better to wage war than to agree to an unstable and unworkable peace, a proposition that the current crisis in Sierra Leone bears out.

Mr Hands said that if he were to achieve one thing as a result of his year as chairman of the HMC, "I would like there to be a proposition that the child is at the centre of education".

Indeed, part of the rationale for establishing Guantánamo in the first place was the misplaced notion that a prison there would be beyond the law – a proposition that the supreme court soundly rejected.

Your Sept. 7 news article "In Poll, Most New Yorkers Want to Restore 2-Term Limit for City Officials" indicates that nearly three-fourths of those polled are in favor of a proposition that the New York City Charter Revision Commission unanimously voted last month to place on the Nov. 2 ballot.

But, can they suffer?" (1970, 283n)—a proposition that lies at the beginnings of utilitarian arguments for the ethical treatment of animals (see Singer 1975).

Lindsey tantalizes readers with some pithy judgments that call for more elaboration than he supplies, as when he denounces "the naïve equation of the virtuous and the uninhibited, a proposition that collapsed the distinction between individualism and infantilism".

The proposition expressed by a statement, what is asserted, will be a proposition that captures the change proposed for the context in which it occurs.

Last year, Nassau voters approved a proposition that gave the village zoning powers for the first time.

"We cannot buy into a proposition that says the elected president must be forced out of office by thugs," the secretary said.