Sentence examples for propositions failed from inspiring English sources

The other propositions failed.

The two propositions failed to attract a majority of voters in any state, and were rejected by over 800,000 votes nationwide.

THIS weekend at the Little Shubert Theater on West 42nd Street, 330 otherwise seemingly intelligent people will sit down to learn the ins and outs of a world where 80percentt of business propositions fail, where millions of dollars are regularly tossed out the window, where one's very job title is often spit out like a curse.

The only thing that's been established is that an extremely utopian proposition failed, as extreme propositions tend to.

There have been attempts before to reform the system — just four years ago a ballot proposition failed in its effort to abolish the death penalty entirely.

The results are in, and with 56percentt of total voters voting against Prop 1, the proposition failed to pass.

Ultimately, the proposition failed by a relatively narrow margin: 46.9percentto53.1percentcent.

Thus your brother's proposition fails ethically, legally and technologically, a rare hat trick.

Similar reasoning shows that any other false proposition fails to exist.

However, the literature reveals that consumer's knowledge about such marketing tactics may make that proposition fail.

If a proposition fails to entail that q, doesn't it follow that there is a possible world in which the former is true and not-q?