Instead of asking "why," we believe the more important starting question is "What value will be realized by having more women pursuing engineering bring to institutions and society as whole?" Having the value proposition serve as a starting point frames the conversation in a way which promotes positive impact for all involved, not just a single group.
Proposition 8 served only to "lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples," wrote Judge Stephen Reinhardt.
Their "evidentiary presentation was dwarfed" by the one presented for the plaintiffs by the lawyers David Boies and Ted Olson, Walker wrote in his 138-page opinion (pdf); with their two dubious expert witnesses, they simply "failed to build a credible factual record to support their claim that Proposition 8 served a legitimate government interest.
Proposition 37 served as a conduit for individuals throughout the "good food" movement to put dietary preferences aside and band together for a common cause.
But, as of the time of this writing, a federal Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the Proposition, writing, "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples.
For example, propositions can serve as the inputs to associative processes (e.g., encountering the proposition, "I don't want to grow up" can activate another proposition, "I'm a Toys R Us kid," regardless of whether one judges the proposition, "I don't want to grow up, therefore I'm a Toys R Us kid" to be true).
The 2-to-1 appeals court decision that struck down the referendum, known as Proposition 8, said, "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gay men and lesbians in California".
We consider that the theoretical propositions may serve to guide future research in Smart Business Networks.
Under one approach, that-clauses in attitude ascriptions designate propositions which serve to "measure" attitudes conceived of as mental particulars (Matthews 1994).
So for maximal propositions to serve as grounds for the relation of consequence, a transformation on the status of topical arguments (from probable to necessary) had to occur at a later stage (Stump 1982, 290).
