Sentence examples similar to shot proposition from inspiring English sources
MOSCOW — A group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists who bet on companies like Skype and Facebook are taking a look at another long-shot proposition — that Russia can diversify its economy away from oil.
Asset sales are a one-shot proposition.
LOS ANGELES — A ballot measure to make California the first state to legalize the sale and use of marijuana has won the support of one of the state's most powerful union, officials said Monday, offering the proposition a shot of mainstream legitimacy as well as a potential financial and organizational lift.
That means a bull can theoretically produce thousands of calves for every shot, a particularly attractive proposition for rare or expensive semen.
It has been historically rare for the state's courts to overturn initiatives on the ground that they are actually revisions, and many legal scholars had deemed the challenge to Proposition 8 a long shot.
Peterborough were a different proposition just after the break - Danny Swanson's shot was blocked by Andy Drury and Tommy Smith had to put his body in the way of a Nathaniel Mendez-Laing shot from 12 yards.
"We feel our value proposition is better than i2's, and we want I.B.M. to have a shot at learning that," said Chris Jones, the Synquest executive who negotiated the agreement.
Hacked, while a considerably more modest proposition, must also have outstripped the average porn budget tenfold; even the film's exterior shots look more like cutaways from House of Cards than locations from a 21st Century porn film.
A very different proposition.
