Sentence examples for hear a proposition from inspiring English sources

They gathered on Jan . 2 1864 — over 15 months before Appomattox — to hear a proposition nobody with the status of major general had yet dared to speak.

"Discussing issues such as white privilege and masculinity without white people or men limits dialogue and disengages privileged communities...The unspoken message of excluding an entire group from a discussion is that not a single person in that group has anything worth hearing – an astounding proposition," the Globe piece continues.

I don't seem to hear a lot of bids for this proposition.

Voters in California certainly heard a lot about Proposition 8, which was the most expensive referendum battle ever on a social issue.

The arguments came a day after the court heard a challenge to California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriages.

That same week, I heard a story on National Public Radio about Proposition 19 [California's medical marijuana legalization ballot initiative].

(The Court will hear the Proposition 8 case on March 26th and the DOMA case on March 27th).

But taking only Gill and declining to hear the Proposition 8 case would almost certainly mean that gay-rights advocates would have to wait at least several years more for a definitive ruling by the Supreme Court on the main issue of marriage equality.

The court has also been asked to hear cases about Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California, and an Arizona measure that withdrew state benefits from both gay and straight domestic partners.

The Supreme Court will hear cases against Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act in late March and will render a decision in late June.

Of course, this case is just another step in what will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which by the end of the year is expected to hear arguments about Proposition 8 in California, as well as the Defense of Marriage Act that is central to the New York case, but one can only speculate which case they will hear and how they will rule.