Sentence examples for doubtful proposition from inspiring English sources

That may seem like a doubtful proposition.

In Yemen, it trusted the port authority not to be infiltrated by Islamic kamikazes, a doubtful proposition at best.

It's a shame because Davis would be in the conversation for MVP if the Pelicans somehow made the postseason, a doubtful proposition even if Davis were 100% healthy.

(a) Assuming the doubtful proposition that the Federal Government's exemption from state sovereign immunity can be delegated, 1362 does not embody a general delegation to tribes of the Federal Government's authority, under United States v. Minnesota, 270 U.S. 181, 195, to sue States on the tribes' behalf.

In the past several months, they've come up with a bill in Oklahoma that would require a woman seeking an abortion to get written permission from the father of the fetus; in several other states, bills would require that women who have taken the abortion pill be informed of the doubtful proposition that, with timely intervention, the process can be "reversed".

That's a doubtful proposition, however.

Other evidence of doubtful propositions has been lost: the C.I.A. admitted in court papers to destroying ninety-two videofapes of interrogations.

Bradbury emphasized that many of the legal positions issued between 2001 and 2003 are "not consistent with the current views of OLC". Others rest on "doubtful" propositions, he said.

Days before Bush left office, the head of the Office of Legal Counsel said that given "the doubtful nature of the propositions," he had to formally repudiate the opinions nine in all now presumably to keep some future President from digging them up, like inscriptions in a tomb, and calling them precedents.

The constructed function we substitute for the supposed inferred entities, and thereby obtain a new and less doubtful interpretation of the body of propositions in question.

In contrast, philosophical skepticism attempts to render doubtful every member of some class of propositions that we think falls within our ken.