Sentence examples for poor proposition from inspiring English sources

Because it's unnovative, Vevo fails to address the music industry's big problem: investing in Kanye Wests is a poor proposition.

Only a typical Frenchman like Million, accustomed to the old apprentice system and his country's gerontocratic policy, by which the young always work (at low pay) for their elders, would have participated in such a poor proposition as the Weidmann murders.

That's capitalism, and it's self-adjusting: if a seller is perceived to provide a poor value proposition by its customers (whether it actually rakes in huge profits or not), the customers go elsewhere and that seller either improves the bargain or eventually ceases to do business altogether.

One of the common criticisms leveled at both the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 by tech press is the poor value proposition presented by Nvidia's RTX cards, offering lower generation-over-generation performance improvements combined with higher prices.

Matthew Yglesias writes: "The explosives-heavy approach to humanitarianism has a lot of unpredictable side effects, sometimes backfires massively, and offers an extremely poor value proposition.

He holds that the "aside from some assorted rewards that only get good in the really high donation brackets," there is a poor value proposition.

To the extent that Paul is known outside the US, it is as the poor guy propositioned in a hotel room by a trouser-less Sacha Baron Cohen, in his movie Brüno.

The school, like many other for-profit institutions, has been under investigation by state and federal authorities for a while, as concerns rose that such schools represent a poor cost-benefit proposition for students.

Even reformers accept that the state government must play a role in balancing out the funding difference between, say, the schools in rich Palo Alto and poor East Palo Alto; but Proposition 13 has removed any connection between local spending and control.

Imagine your poor grandmother being propositioned by a Gronk relative on the way to get more crab imperial at the dinner buffet.

The Generalized System of Preferences has been an effective foreign policy tool since the mid-1970s, premised on the sensible proposition that poor countries can prosper best from trade.