Sentence examples for the very proposition from inspiring English sources

He said it was "naive and confuses the very proposition of the BBC".

How do you explain that the very proposition of war as an instrument of virtue is absurd?

The very proposition that legal concepts such as genocide could ever adequately measure and reflect the intricacies of such historical events could itself be questioned.

Richard Bacon, a presenter on both 6 Music and Radio 5 Live, said shutting the station would be "naive" and against the "very proposition of the BBC".

"Here's my strongest and final comment of the night: proposing the closure of 6 Music is naive and confuses the very proposition of the BBC".

Bacon, one of BBC 6 Music's most high-profile presenters, said shutting the station would be "naive" and against the "very proposition of the BBC".

The idea is that the years when Israel faced the very real proposition that it might be destroyed outright are over.

This argument begs the question because the premise and conclusion are the very same proposition albeit expressed in different words.

Yet the procedural blinkering of the system had walled them in, and just like now, they'd only been able to see their decision in terms of the very narrow proposition put to them – do we save Iraq, or do we not save Iraq?

No, you'll be fiddling around with the very confusing Propositions which seem to be written by the parents of democracy -- the Greeks.

Here it is enough to recall that according to him, a remedy would be to formulate within the system the very notion of proposition, and a way to avoid the contradictions would lead to a hierarchy of canonical propositions (or to a theory of levels of implication, already adumbrated by Church).