Sentence examples similar to adopt propositions from inspiring English sources

On Nov. 6, voters in California will decide whether to adopt Proposition 36, a ballot initiative that would reform the most draconian aspects of the law — and, in our view, restore the original intent of voters, which was to lock away violent career criminals for life, without unjustly throwing away the lives of small-time, nonviolent offenders like Mr. Taylor.

After all, they adopted Proposition 13, which cut the schools' main revenue source (property taxes).

In 1996 California's voters adopted Proposition 215, also known as the Medical Marijuana Initiative, which holds that the state's criminal laws against marijuana do not apply to seriously ill patients who use the drug on the advice of their physicians.

In 1986 it adopted Proposition 48 in order to boost that class's entrance standards, directing that to play sports as a freshman, an athlete needed a 2.0 average in a high school core curriculum and a combined score of at least 700 on the Scholastic Assessment Tests, about 200 points below the national average for college-bound seniors.

One year ago today, California voters adopted Proposition 47, changing drug possession and five other nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors.

In adopting Proposition 47 on Tuesday by a huge margin, Californians made a statement about the tough-on-crime policies of the last generation that increased prison costs and populations many times over while too often accelerating, rather than reversing, the descent of offenders and often whole communities into cycles of crime and victimization, incarceration and recidivism.

The answer is to adopt the proposition set forth by Gen. U. S. Grant in our Civil War, and Roosevelt and Churchill in World War II: declaring irrevocably that the only acceptable end to hostilities is unconditional surrender.

In West Germany the Federal Court of Justice in 1952 adopted the proposition that if a person engages in criminal conduct but is unaware of its criminality, that person cannot be fully charged with a criminal offense; this has since been incorporated as rule in the German criminal code.

When UC Berkeley adopted the proposition in the fall of 1998, the enrollment of minority freshman declined (see UC Berkeley's New Freshman Registrants Fall 1995-Fall 2004 data).

The Brucella Taxonomic Subcommittee of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes adopted this proposition.

One, a former IBM executive, had a modest proposition: Adopt standard corporate controls and Blackstone could take 2% in costs out of the group's combined operations.