Sentence examples for on two propositions from inspiring English sources

My argument at the time was based on two propositions.

With the transfer of formal sovereignty to Iraq's leaders, the Bush administration has hung its hopes, and probably the president's chances for re-election, on two propositions.

Strip away the politics, the slowing economy, the argument over whether the rich will get too much, and the Bush plan rests on two propositions.

I have staked the security of this nation on two propositions; this election will be about whether those propositions are true.

A1 Hearing arguments over a New Hampshire abortion case, the Supreme Court appeared to be in broad agreement on two propositions: that laws regulating teenagers' access to abortion must make allowances for medical emergencies and that a state law requiring notice to one parent and a 48-hour waiting period failed to do so.

His candidacy rests on two propositions: that a society awash in prosperity, its confidence in government buoyed by rising surpluses, should be ready to spend liberally to solve its most vexing social problems; and that the ideal guardian of the nation's purse strings is someone like him -- a Wall Street-hardened financier who has spent his career doing deals in dollar amounts of 9 and 10 digits.

Most arguments against fine dining as frivolous, excessive and somehow morally wrong rest on one of two propositions, both of them false.

A liberal conservative approach to foreign policy today is based on five propositions.

MR. HUNDLEY -- Yes.... Seth P. Waxman, On Behalf of the Government MR. WAXMAN -- The position of the United States is based on three propositions, and I'd like simply to state them.

But for the purposes of my argument today, we can focus on three propositions that are most commonly understood to represent the core of neo-conservative thinking: First, a realistic appreciation of the scale of the threat the world faces from terrorism.

An issue in April gave warning that "our report on executive compensation will only fuel the outrage over corporate greed".This orthodoxy rests on three propositions: that CEO pay just keeps on going up; that it is not tied to performance; and that boards are not doing their job of holding fat cats' paws to the fire.