Sentence examples similar to failed proposition from inspiring English sources

In 2005, Scharzenegger supported Bush's Social Security privatization scheme and tried to do the same thing to the state's pension plan CalPIRS, the biggest in the country, by pushing a set of failed propositions that were a frontal assault on California's working middle class.

The only thing that's been established is that an extremely utopian proposition failed, as extreme propositions tend to.

Soon the story about the bookstore that tucks marijuana between the pages of old books appeared in The Eye; it was part of a fictionalized series about life in cannabis country that ran as the state debated the failed referendum, Proposition 19, which would have allowed licensed retailers to sell marijuana to people over 21 for recreational use.

As one scene bleeds into the next, the dancers juxtapose their movements, which tend toward sharp and angular — aggressive partnering seems a constant if-all-else-fails proposition — with moments of stillness.

That very young girls, dressed and presented in a way that places them one inch on the right side of the line that separates childish dress-up from pedophilia, can move product, is, on the well-scrubbed, all-American-girl face of it, a crass, simple and never-fail proposition.

"It was one of those sure-to-fail propositions, but we learned a lot," Kanfer said.

There have been attempts before to reform the system — just four years ago a ballot proposition failed in its effort to abolish the death penalty entirely.

The results are in, and with 56percentt of total voters voting against Prop 1, the proposition failed to pass.

Ultimately, the proposition failed by a relatively narrow margin: 46.9percentto53.1percentcent.

"Like Mississippi's failed 'Personhood Amendment' Proposition 26, these misleading and ambiguously worded 'personhood' measures substitute ideology for science and represent a grave threat to women's health and reproductive rights that, if passed, would have long-term negative outcomes for our patients, their families, and society," ACOG said in a statement.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] – You summed up nicely Egypt's recent past, but failed badly in propositions for its future ("Egypt rises up", February 5th).