Sentence examples for proposition on paper from inspiring English sources

While Captain America: The Winter Soldier might have seemed like a generic proposition on paper, it was a surprisingly cunning conspiracy thriller that over-performed.

IBM faced a far simpler proposition, on paper: make a machine one hundred times faster than their previous best.

Having produced a comprehensive, if lacklustre, win over Zimbabwe a week ago, England find Sri Lanka a more testing proposition, at least on paper.

Proposition B sounds nice on paper.

With their impeccable reference points (the xx, the Weeknd) and cryptic song titles (Intruxx, Wyrd), Oxford's Glass Animals are, at least on paper, an enticing proposition.

However, HappyFresh has plenty of credentials on paper to take its proposition seriously.

On paper, that's a valid proposition.

On paper, this is a reasonable proposition, though personally I have encountered children that disprove this.

On paper it must have read like a thrill-a-minute proposition.

The plotting machine, or plotter, interprets the algorithmic script as simple operating commands place pen on paper, lift pen from paper, move pen from here to there turning a mathematical proposition into a drawing, what Mohr calls a "visual result".

On paper.