Sentence examples for the proposition put forward from inspiring English sources

He challenged the proposition, put forward by Ukip and supported by some in the Conservative party, that overseas aid should be cut in order to improve the UK government's deficit figures.

When the model Erin O'Connor posed for a Moschino campaign, playing both a flamenco dancer in ruffles and a toreador with side whiskers, she proved the proposition put forward by Dr. Suzanna Walters, the director of feminist studies at Georgetown University, that "sexualities once literally outlaw are now rendered as sartorial motifs".

Mr Swinney added: "The issues raised by Alliance Trust are entirely addressed by the propositions put forward by the Scottish government, and show exactly why our proposals for a formal currency area are the right proposals, why they are in the best interests of business on both sides of the border and why that is what will be implemented by both governments".

The propositions put forward here are extremely important for understanding how the ethylene communication channel is built.

The main proposition put forward in the present study is that migrant entrepreneurship is a very diversified phenomenon with distinct differences in business performance, depending on ethnic background, education, social networks, and the like.

He was interested in an "enabling development" whereby a stadium could be created and funded as part of a business or leisure opportunity —exactly the kind of proposition put forward by Winkelman.

Anglo's relations with the government that owns a 5% stake in it has always been turbulent, though in the past month both were united by their opposition to the "merger of equals" proposition put forward by Xstrata.

In comparison, the speaker in message 1343 is reporting on a proposition put forward by others as indicated in the verb say.

In the past 12 hours I have heard this remarkable proposition put forward on five different television networks, without anybody challenging it.

He regards the use of antilogic as essentially eristic, whether it be used to silence an opponent by making his position seem self-contradictory, or whether it be used mechanically to negate any proposition put forward in debate.

If the speaker appears to be credible, the audience will form the second-order judgment that propositions put forward by the credible speaker are true or acceptable.