Sentence examples for old proposition from inspiring English sources

Several livestock groups, including the Wyoming Farm Bureau, had filed a suit that urged, in slightly cleverer terms, the old proposition, no wolves, nohow.

The effort to ratify the so-called New Start treaty he signed here will test whether there is still any truth in the old proposition that politics stops at the water's edge.

The key idea, based on an old proposition of Frenkel, is that a liquid becomes solid-like at frequencies larger than τ −1∼η −1, when it may support shear waves.

On the other hand, remember those scientists at Plymouth University in England who recently tested the old proposition that if you gave monkeys typewriters, eventually one of them would produce a play worthy of Shakespeare.

Furthermore, the old proposition that antigen antibody complex retention on follicular dendritic cells influences the maintenance of long term T cell memory [ 66] was challenged by later experimental evidence [ 67– 67].

Her male counterpart, equally as old, propositioned a threesome.

Interested readers might recall (almost) a couple of weeks ago as I was leaving San Francisco, I reiterated my already year-old proposition that there are no interesting start-ups (which is to say companies less than 5+ years old) in the British capital.

The age-old proposition that "video games make players violent" is tired and misleading.

So, once we know a theory is false we can be confident that tacking on any old arbitrary proposition, no matter how misleading it is, will lead us inexorably closer to the truth.

OK, so a horsebox sounds about as glamorous as a portaloo, and, unless you are a pony-mad eight-year-old, the proposition of camping in one isn't likely to get a girl's heart cantering.

Make sure older children know never to proposition older people.