Sentence examples for extraordinary proposition from inspiring English sources

A few years back, an extraordinary proposition by the name of Palladium was set before the British public.

The Bancrofts wanted a board that the family would control in perpetuity, with the power to hire and fire the editors and the publishers, and leverage to protect employees from Murdoch — an extraordinary proposition.

Howard described a recent comment by Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which drew a link between extreme weather, the NSW bushfires and climate change, as an "extraordinary proposition".

Quite apart from the edgy combination of 'sureness' and 'perhaps', this is an extraordinary proposition, less an explanation of Goethe's behaviour than an exposition of what the name 'Goethe' means, but none the less valuable for that.

The director said counter-terrorism was an "extraordinary proposition because [it] is the one area of crime where the expectation sometimes seems to be that the stats should be zero".

I was amazed that as a woman who spent nearly 6 years of my life making a documentary film (Without A Home) about the homeless and being pretty politically active and engaged, I had never heard about this extraordinary proposition.

Another anticlosure argument is that there are some sorts of propositions we cannot know unless perhaps we take extraordinary measures, yet such propositions are entailed by mundane claims whose truth we do know.

Mr Berry said that the officers' propositions were "extraordinary and incredible" and said that the two Tesco employees had "no reason to lie, no reason to exaggerate, no reason to embellish".

By contrast, a few songs later, the extraordinary Thought I Was a Spaceman is an entirely different proposition – one that relocates David Bowie to the South Seas, adding grandeur by degrees.

It is a testament to Bennett's extraordinary skill – his genius, even – that we assent to the proposition, which would in real life make a cat laugh, that the Queen could be capable of becoming a reader of fine discernment.

Each must complement the other and underscore the same proposition: that the applicant is an individual of extraordinary ability in his or her field of endeavor.