Sentence examples for proposition set forth from inspiring English sources

The answer is to adopt the proposition set forth by Gen. U. S. Grant in our Civil War, and Roosevelt and Churchill in World War II: declaring irrevocably that the only acceptable end to hostilities is unconditional surrender.

It's true that in the ur-Christmas movie "It's a Wonderful Life," George Bailey doesn't exactly undergo a personality change, but the movie does act as evidence for the proposition set forth in the other films.

Mayors of Lincolnshire can veto propositions set forth by the board of trustees, although this move may be overridden by a two-thirds opposition vote from the board.

The problem of the infinite was approached from an altogether different perspective in Crescas's critique of Maimonides' 25 propositions, which Maimonides had set forth in the Guide as the basis of his proof of the existence of God.

"He was seeking to evade the limits set forth in Proposition 34," Mr. Johnson said.

None of the tainted supplements in Dr. Saper's study met the standards for lead set forth by California Proposition 65.

But the proposition that nothing has fundamentally changed is convincingly set forth in "The White Sharks of Wall Street," an engaging and thorough history of early corporate takeovers by Diana B. Henriques, a financial reporter for The New York Times.

Originally titled "Prisoners of Childhood," it set forth, in three essays, a simple but harrowing proposition.

Krauthammer characterizes the plaintiffs' position set forth in Justice Sotomayor's dissent as representing a "radical proposition" that not even liberal Justice Breyer could accept.

Applying the principles set forth in Romer as well as other precedents, the Ninth Circuit concluded that Proposition 8 discriminated against gay men and lesbians, not to further any proper legislative goal, but to decree their inequality, "to lessen the[ir] status and human dignity... and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior....".

Ekthesis, (Greek: "to expose," or "to set forth"), in logic, process used by Aristotle to establish the validity of certain propositions or syllogisms.