Sentence examples for challenging the proposition from inspiring English sources
Several lawsuits challenging the proposition were filed.
Supporters of same-sex marriage, who filed several suits challenging the proposition after its adoption, argued that the change to the state's Constitution was so fundamental that the initiative was not an amendment at all but instead a "revision," a term for measures that rework core constitutional principles.
"The widespread harassment and intimidation suffered by supporters of California's Proposition 8 provides strong support for an as-applied exemption in the present case," he wrote, reminding his colleagues that they had in January barred the closed-circuit broadcast of the trial of a lawsuit challenging the proposition based in part on fear that witnesses would be harassed.
Proposition 5 and Gray Davis both won handily, and pending the outcome of several suits challenging the proposition, Davis is now negotiating with a coalition of tribes about the arrangements for bigger and better casino gambling in California.
On June 26 the United States Supreme Court struck down California's Proposition 8. Fresh off his victory at the Supreme Court, Adam Umhoefer of the American Foundation For Equal Rights (AFER), which filed the lawsuit challenging the proposition, joined HuffPost Live to discuss what he's experienced since receiving the historic news.
FEW would challenge the proposition that human capital is fundamental to economic growth.
He challenged the proposition, put forward by Ukip and supported by some in the Conservative party, that overseas aid should be cut in order to improve the UK government's deficit figures.
The null bilingual effect despite a music effect in the same group of individuals challenges the proposition that young adults are at a performance ceiling and adds to increasing evidence on the lack of a bilingual advantage on cognition.
Plaintiffs challenging the ban — Proposition 8, approved by voters in 2008 — had sought to vacate a stay in February, saying that denying gay couples the right to marry was causing "grievous, humiliating and irreparable injury".
Some opponents of group rights challenge the very proposition that groups can bear rights.
Judge Walker has raised the issue of televising the hearing recently, and the lawyers challenging the same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, have pressed for cameras to be allowed.
