Sentence examples for testing a proposition from inspiring English sources

Phoenix, which is based in Hong Kong but controlled by interests from the Chinese mainland, is testing a proposition: that in an era of tighter economic ties between Taiwan and China, greater China is becoming a single media market.

But as Mr. Obama wrapped up his State of the Union address on Wednesday night with an appeal to transcend partisan gamesmanship, he was plaintively testing a broader proposition: Is it possible to embrace complexity in a political and media culture that demands simple themes and promotes conflict?

Testing such a proposition, however, is difficult.

Yet his campaign for re-election tests a proposition that is not remotely normal: that a candidate can stick by high-minded campaign-finance principles and win.

This paper examines the pattern of introduced herbivore and predator distribution in the Tanami Desert and tests a series of propositions put forward by Stafford Smith and Morton [1990. A framework for the ecology of arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 18, 255 278].

In particular it tests a number of propositions on how environmental management systems and the interaction with environmentally more or less concerned stakeholders are associated with the probability of firms to pursue innovation in general (measured as patenting behaviour) and specifically environmental innovation (measured based on firm self-assessment and through patent data).

Barrett described a clinical trial testing the proposition that consumption of a blend of artificial food flavors and sodium benzoate induces changes in children's behavior (McCann et al. 2007).

We need to go beyond the appeal to common experience and into the territory of psychological research, which is sophisticated enough these days to make a start in testing our proposition.

Russian stocks, in fact, provide a laboratory for testing the proposition that honesty is the best policy.

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Women in rich and middle-income countries may soon find themselves enrolled in a real-life experiment testing this proposition.