But the film often evokes a yoga video with its statements about feeling in harmony with oneself, and its stories mostly turn on the hard-to-dispute proposition that yoga is relaxing and therapeutic.
His renovation, an 11-year effort (ordeal is perhaps the more apt word at this point), began from the unobvious and instantly disputed proposition that a "Piranesian pile," as he called the vivid jumble of remains, could yet be put back together.
It would be hard to dispute the proposition that New Yorkers are nocturnal creatures.
Mr. Lucarelli and officials of the other so-called mobile entertainment companies angrily dispute that proposition.
Few would dispute the proposition by President Bush yesterday that religious groups can effectively provide social services for the poor.
But there is little dispute over the proposition that in an era where the internet and mobile phones are the main source of communication, spies and the police need greater access to such material.
The literature concerning these kinds of problems ranges from formal disputes on the propositions which attempt to solve or avoid the problem posed by the statements to treatises or rules about how to solve the puzzles the disputes over them reveal.
Collective bargaining and resolving workplace disputes remain fraught propositions, as ILO chief adviser Christopher Land-Kazlaustatestatestates
The intractability and bitterness of many moral disputes, in Stevenson's opinion, speak in favor of the proposition that such disputes involve the clash of emotions, and that the utterances therein function to express the speaker's own emotion while serving her desire to influence those of the audience.
That is, they withheld assent to all propositions about which genuine dispute was possible, and they took that class of propositions to include both the (meta) proposition that we can have knowledge of EI-type propositions and the (meta) proposition that we cannot have knowledge.
"The time involved, the cost involved and the uncertainty of the outcome make settling a dispute in court a risky proposition for both parties," Mr. Greenstein said.
