But while Roxburgh's side weren't a totally convincing proposition, they were grinding out results – a 2-1 win iNorwayay had been followed by a 1-1 drat at Hampden against much-fancied Yugoslavia – and were expected to win their third game in Cyprus.
"The best way … to get a true picture is to require Tube Lines to raise finance, and therefore to put a convincing proposition to lenders, which can be tested by their technical advisers and subjected to the detailed scrutiny of their credit committees," said Parry.
To these reasonably convincing propositions, I'll add one more: she represents the archetype of the happy girl, which is one that many people resist.
Despite its position as a technology superpower and with an estimated $33bn in the bank, it has largely failed to deliver a convincing consumer proposition for social networking.
While obtaining venture investments from a big company or being acquired by one are viable strategies for energy startups, says William Banholzer, Dow Chemical's executive vice president and chief technology officer, they have to present a convincing "value proposition" to the larger company, and that can be difficult.
As much as I might want to be sympathetic to this claim (I fly a lot and am wary of the "security theater" at American airports), it ought not to be very convincing as a logical proposition.
I've got a much wider hypothesis about what consumers make of this situation,which is a bit tangential to your questions... PHR: We expect Apple to come to the market with a more convincing TV games-related proposition in the future.
(Contrary to popular legend, the workload of the modern-day Senate is substantial. Most members could make a convincing argument for the proposition that they really don't have time to wait out a filibuster). In response, Mansfield devised a "two-track" system where the mornings were devoted to filibustering and the afternoons to pressing business.
Keith Gessen says that n+1 started because "we were in New York, where things can take on a momentum of their own," but he doesn't address the source of that momentum; the least convincing of all the propositions in this volume is the idea that, thanks to the Web, it no longer matters where you live.
While the benefits of these recently-proposed utility combinations appear to be relatively convincing to shareholders, the value proposition for regulators and ratepayers is not quite so evident.
Many millions were doled out on other efforts, including convincing voters to approve legalized marijuana (Proposition 64), to impose new transparency rules on the Legislature (Proposition 54) and to reject a repeal of the death penalty (Proposition 62).
