Sentence examples for likely proposition from inspiring English sources

A salary cap league makes the kind of dominance enjoyed by big city clubs in Europe a far less likely proposition.

Don't expect an early night though, as the earliest both men will be in the ring will be at 4am BST, while 5am seems a more likely proposition.

But an appointed government – an ever more likely proposition – would almost certainly provoke a backlash by "red shirt" Shinawatra supporters, who have seen every government they elected since 2005 undemocratically removed.

If the Irish electorate turn up their noses at the prospect of greater European integration which seems a more likely proposition than it did a few weeks ago it could derail the whole process.

With zero revenue, Twitter is a flip or flop proposition, a likely proposition given that Biz Stone ran Blogger in a similar fashion (Blogger only had minimal revenue via premium subscriptions and no adverising before being sold to Google).

But by re-winning Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and adding Arizona (with its 11 votes), a perhaps more likely proposition than it was in 2008 when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz).

They would need to be able to recognise a likely business proposition, and get their maths absolutely right.

Had the state executive performed its constitutional function with a bit less grandstanding, it is likely that Proposition 8 would have been found invalid altogether.

That hedged promise is the first line of Woolf's novel: if the weather is fine the next day not the likeliest of propositions in the Hebrides, where the story takes place Mrs.

That hedged promise is the first line of Woolf's novel: if the weather is fine the next day — not the likeliest of propositions in the Hebrides, where the story takes place — Mrs. Ramsay's youngest child, six-year-old James, will get to visit a nearby lighthouse.

Not only must S above be justified in believing E1, S must also be justified in believing that E1 makes likely P, a proposition he would have to infer (if there are no foundations) from some other proposition F1, which he would have to infer from F2, which he would have to infer from F3, and so on ad infinitum.