Sentence examples for back the proposition from inspiring English sources

State legislators said there was virtually no chance of seeking to roll back the Proposition 13 property tax limitation on homeowners.

Oil companies and allies have donated more than $8 million to back the proposition, including more than $4 million from the Texas oil refiner Valero Energy, and $1 million from the Koch family, who has backed the Tea Party movement inside the Republican Party.

Draper spent more than $23 million of his own money to back the proposition.

If passed, it will roll back the Proposition 103 insurance regulations that protect motorists from unfair rate hikes.

The poll found only 40 percent of black voters backing the proposition with 52 percent opposed.

Much of New York City's legal establishment is backing the proposition, including the New York City Bar Association and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

The plaintiffs, represented by Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, sought to prove that opponents of same-sex marriage were motivated by discriminatory animus when they backed the proposition.

Talk to most marketers about this and they shrink back from the proposition, saying it will probably compromise the effectiveness of the ad.

Unlike other states, it suffers from severely dysfunctional politics, including gridlock-inducing budget procedures and a deeply anti-tax strain that plays itself out in endless voter referenda, dating back to the Proposition 13 property tax cap from the 1970s.

Nor can anyone back up the proposition that these same strings, out of which our universe is presumably built, move and vibrate in a 10-dimensional space--and perhaps in an 11-dimensional space too.

The measure's passage has spurred protests in California and across the country, including at several Mormon temples, a reflection of that church's ardent backing of the proposition.