Sentence examples for losing propositions from inspiring English sources

Most real estate mavens do not mess with losing propositions, but this developer loves them.

Potential solutions for this disconnect, including carbon offsets or Superfund liabilities, are losing propositions for many corporations.

"Ike felt that forces of occupation in poor countries where they are not welcome are losing propositions," Mr. Nye says.

This is the stuff that no healthy bank wanted to buy, losing propositions, or in the diplomatically bureaucratic language of government, "assets in liquidation".

The trend makes Pacquiao by decision one of the biggest losing propositions for the MGM, but that would pale in comparison to a draw, which has been bet down to 6-1 after opening at 22-1.

That's chauvinism, however, not good economic sense: stadiums are losing propositions commercially and always end up being subsidised by taxpayer money; they do not bring stores, businesses or significant job numbers to the neighborhoods they sit in either.

"It was a losing proposition that we found ourselves in.

I knew I was already in a losing proposition.

Momentum swung wildly, and serving seemed a losing proposition.

But owning the team has been a losing proposition.

It was a losing proposition from beginning to end".