Sentence examples for proposition rather than from inspiring English sources

In between, a host of prominent lawyers have made their way to the lectern to argue for proposition rather than a client.

A senior MP said: "Corbyn's team are trying to work out whether they can get a whipped vote around this proposition rather than simply against the Prime Minister".

Although little noted in the midst of the uproar at the time, Ms. Golden herself held the term "post-black" at a critical distance, floating it out as a proposition rather than advancing it as a polemic.

Danuta Hübner, for instance, Poland's first-ever European Commissioner, is prime minister in the Congress's "shadow cabinet" of women, which calls itself a "constructive proposition, rather than opposition" to the actual government.

Perhaps the best thing that could happen is [if] Adelaide truly embraces its smallness and difference, and becomes a viable city for being a completely alternative proposition, rather than simply trying to play catch up with Melbourne and Sydney".

Throughout the run-up to Salvation's release, everyone involved has been going out of their way to convince us that this is a film which will stand in the Terminator canon as a serious proposition, rather than an insipid sequel.

As opposed to the predicate calculus, the propositional calculus employs simple, unanalyzed propositions rather than terms or noun expressions as its atomic units; and, as opposed to the functional calculus, it treats only propositions that do not contain variables.

These differences are that pictorial signs are "motivated"—that is, they visually suggest their meanings and that they express whole propositions rather than single words.

Greeks may find it easier to accept French propositions rather than alleged diktats from a country that – as they have been told by their government – still owes them money for war reparations.

Historians have often noted that the most ringing phrases in the Declaration of Independence -- the assertion of self-evident truths -- are really philosophical propositions rather than actual descriptions of the human condition in late-18th-century America.

The Uses of Argument (1958), which inadvertently made him a founding father of argumentation theory, criticises the way that philosophers treat reasoning as a chain of time-free written propositions rather than as a practical technique used by real people in particular situations.