Sentence examples for terrible proposition from inspiring English sources

FOR nearly all investors, frequent trading is a terrible proposition.

Officials would be required to disregard court orders: a terrible proposition in a country that prides itself on adherence to law.

It was a terrible proposition, coming just after the city's only Orthodox synagogue had shut its doors in November 2012, unable to regularly gather 10 men for the Minyan, the quorum of 10 Jewish male adults required for certain religious obligations.

Living only off of humanitarian aid, when you have seen the bleakness of the future, is a terrible proposition for most.

Edmunds.com recently quoted Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Motor's president, as saying hybrids are a "terrible business proposition" and a "niche technology" accounting for "less than 1% of global sales".

Yet is it really the case that religious belief is not propositional, that no one starts or stops believing in God over the terrible hazard of a proposition?

Plus, watching Alex eat the worm seemed like a win/win proposition: If it tasted terrible, we'd get to watch him suffer.

On one page, the narrator debunks the acceptability of alcoholism at that time ('There was a convention about drunkenness, established in part by drunkards. The founding proposition was that consciousness is terrible.').

It certainly makes their follow-up, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, an intriguing proposition.

Mr. Rosenthal, 58, who admitted to growing the plants for distribution under California's medicinal marijuana law, known as Proposition 215, called the verdict a "terrible decision" and vowed to fight it.

And self-rule was not worth this terrible expenditure unless it, in turn, was based on "the proposition that all men are created equal".