Sentence examples for the basic proposition that from inspiring English sources

But its reversal suggests the extent to which gay men and lesbians have persuaded much of the legal profession to accept the basic proposition that sexual orientation is irrelevant to a person's worth and that the law should reflect this judgment.

And on the question of games that go for five days: setting aside, for one moment, that this is the land of the 162 game-long baseball season and that NBA teams slog through 82 games before they can even think about the finals, if you agree with the basic proposition that lots of sport is better than a little sport, it seems difficult to take issue with the length of a Test match in cricket.

Indeed, there is not really any disagreement between those on the two sides of the living wage debate about the basic proposition that the effects of living wages on families are dissipated because of high implicit marginal tax rates on low-income families.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks understood the basic proposition that human rights are indivisible.

"But that basic proposition – that we are now the only party of the three main parties that marry both economic responsibility with a commitment to social fairness – puts us slap bang in the middle of the centre ground of British politics which is where I believe, even in these polarised times, most British voters are".

Their basic proposition: that the Constitution bars punishment for ideas, however hateful — and that tacking on extra prison time for bias is an affront to the First Amendment.

The show is vast in emotional scope and I still haven't finished watching it, but nor have I quite dealt with its basic proposition that integrity can be maintained in a criminal context.

The basic proposition is that health workforce planning controls unintended cyclic labour market fluctuations, and helps to avoid societal waste and loss of quality, both in the consumption and production of health care.

"The basic proposition here is that somebody who comes into the United States of America illegally, who conducts a terrorist operation killing thousands of innocent Americans -- men, women and children -- is not a lawful combatant," Mr. Cheney said.

The basic proposition of economics, that scarcities are essentially ubiquitous, is often phrased as "there is no such thing as a free lunch"; and it reminds one that the price of the lunch may be future patronage, a reciprocal lunch, or a boring monologue.

The basic proposition here is that somebody who conducts a terrorist operation, killing thousands of innocent Americans, they don't deserve to be treated as a prisoner of war, they don't deserve the same guarantees and safeguards that would be used for an American citizen going through the normal judicial process.