Sentence examples for acceptance of the proposition from inspiring English sources

Their nonchalance is founded upon broadening acceptance of the proposition that homosexuality, like heterosexuality, is generally innate and not inherently harmful.

My point was instead about the macroeconomic lessons to be taken from the near-universal acceptance of the proposition that a surge of iPhone sales can create jobs.

Sympathy for the right to marry and other civil rights tends to go along with a growing acceptance of the proposition that homosexuality is not a choice but something close to inborn, making it more like race or gender and less like the breezy life-style "option" that Paladino's remarks suggest.

But he is at least 25 votes short of the 67 needed to make the treaty law, and approval, if and when it comes will be no vote of confidence but an acceptance of the proposition that half a loaf is better than none.

: 3. "The Polish Government allows the Lithuanian Government 48 hours from the moment the note is presented for the acceptance of this proposition in making it known that diplomatic representations at Kaunas and Warsaw will be accredited not later than March 31, of this year.

Sinatra et al. (2003) described knowledge as a proposition that has some sort of correspondence with reality, and for which the learner must have valid reasons that justify the acceptance of that proposition.

There appears to be a tacit acceptance of the questionable proposition that poverty reduction must precede the pursuit of wellbeing.

Tanner says most authorities agree it hinges on a battle between love and power, though he warns against too glib an acceptance of that proposition.

In this view, any real understanding of a scientific proposition (such as evolution) cannot be achieved without acceptance of that proposition as true, and lack of acceptance can be a serious barrier to scientific understanding (Lawson 1983; Cobern 1994; McKeachie et al. 2002; Davson-Galle 2004).

The rural group had a more passive attitude and indicated more acceptance to the propositions from their physician.

Consider a technology consisting of two components, the first of which is the acceptance of a proposition, while the second is a behavioral regimen of acting on that acceptance.