Sentence examples for famous proposition from inspiring English sources

In that work Griffith made his famous proposition that a spontaneous crack growth would occur when the energy released from the elastic field just balanced the work required to separate surfaces in the solid.

A watershed moment in the history of the modern initiative occurred in 1978, with the passage of California's famous Proposition 13, which drastically cut property taxes and ushered in an era of badly diminished public services.

In 2008 the California supreme court overturned the ban on same-sex marriage on the grounds that it violated the right to equality under the state constitution, in turn prompting the famous Proposition 8 referendum just six months later in which 52% of voters agreed to change the Californian constitution to ban gay marriage once again.

It is a modification to the state's famous Proposition 13, which keeps a tight lid on property tax hikes for as long as you own a home.

For example, Friedan's famous proposition that women needed to get out of the household and into the professional workplace was, bell hooks pointed out, predicated on the experience of a post-war generation of white, middle-class married women confined to housekeeping and child-rearing by their professional husbands (Friedan 1963; hooks 1981).

Since the early 1900's, California has had a quirky history with voter initiatives, with the most famous being Proposition 13, the 1970's ballot measure that capped local property taxes and caused deep cuts in education financing.

In 1653 the famous five propositions attributed to Jansen were declared to be heretical by Pope Innocent X in the Constitution "Cum Occasione".

She told me about a famous producer propositioning her; I told her about my first sexual encounter in that summer sublet.

The first, and more famous, is the Proposition 8 case out of California.

Ballot initiatives, notably California's famous tax-cutting Proposition 13 in 1978, seemed a way to re-engage voters.

The medieval name for paradoxes like the famous Liar Paradox ("This proposition is false") was "insolubles" or insolubilia, [1] though besides semantic paradoxes, they included epistemic paradoxes, e.g., "You do not know this proposition".