Sentence examples for called proposition from inspiring English sources

In a campaign mailer, Mr. Adachi called Proposition C "a backroom deal".

"I thought it would hurt kids," Mr. Noonan said of the ballot initiative, which was called Proposition 227.

But the vote on term limits, called Proposition 45, was heading for a significant loss despite heavy spending by its supporters, largely Democrats and some unions.

The exhibition is called "Proposition Player," for the independent contractor in the gaming industry who is paid by the house to start games.

Since his last term, after voters in 1978 passed a famous anti-tax initiative called Proposition 13, money and power has shifted from schools, cities and counties to the state.

Laws classifying individuals based on sexual orientation — the anti-gay-marriage initiative in California called Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act — must be given heightened scrutiny.

For this reason they are sometimes called proposition-forming operators on propositions or, more briefly, propositional connectives.

Indeed, thoughts are often taken to be the meanings of sentences, in which case they are called "propositions".

They accepted them all with enthusiasmBut initiatives (called "propositions" in California once they are listed on an actual ballot) had the most potential to turn politics upside down.

For indicative sentences, such contents are typically called Propositions.

So an explanation of false judgement that invoked entities called propositions would be unavailable to the sort of empiricist that Plato has in his sights.