Sentence examples for proposition is not from inspiring English sources

The proposition is not as absurd as it sounds.

Firstly, this proposition is not as crazy as it sounds.

"Our whole proposition is not without risk, but who can say theirs is without risk?

But the proposition is not that smoking causes autopsies, it's that smoking causes death, and there's plenty of evidence of that.

Kengeter said a vote for Britain to leave the union could affect some transaction volumes but that "the overall proposition is not endangered at all".

There are no possible or conceivable conditions in which this proposition is not true (on the assumption, of course, that the words "husband" and "married" are taken to mean what they ordinarily mean).

This proposition is not disproved by the latest installment of Bravo's escapade in Restylane living, this time set in South Florida, where hedonism reigns and the imbibing is professional-grade.

The proposition is not what you'd call bullet­proof, but that's beside the point — this kind of spouting off is exactly what we do when we read poetry privately, or are talking to people we aren't trying to impress.