Sentence examples for reverse proposition from inspiring English sources

Now they need to decide whether to try to reverse Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment adopted last November, in 2010 or in 2012.

While Dr. Tooby, Dr. Cosmides and others have written extensively about the ways in which culture might be shaped by the mental mechanisms humans have evolved, for example, they have spent far less time on the reverse proposition, that culture itself transmits knowledge about how to solve problems from generation to generation.

The supporting Propositions are provided above, in reverse Proposition order (not by order of mention):.

My father had a neat habit of reversing propositions he was handed as a way of assessing them.

I would reverse that proposition, because in the present instance what we are against is a no-brainer.

However, in one of his most recent books, Rocks Of Ages (1999), he attempted to come to terms with a religion more reconciled to science, reversing the proposition of rendering unto Caesar by allowing religion its independent domain.

It's a reverse value proposition: the more we feel threatened, the more energy we spend defending, restoring, and asserting our value, and the less energy we have available to create value.

When should Californians try to reverse last November's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage?

In order to use McNemar's test, we need to reverse the scoring of proposition 2 and cross-tabulate as shown in Table 3.

What better way to make the upcoming Denis Villeneuve-directed sequel a genuinely thought-provoking proposition than to reverse the roles taken by Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard and Sean Young's Rachael in the original film?

But when the subjects considered the decision from five years in the past, the propositions reversed: those who toiled regretted it; those who relaxed were happy with their choice.