Sentence examples for they were propositioned from inspiring English sources

Caterpillar is accused of retaliating against women at its Aurora, Ill., plant who said they were propositioned and subjected to inappropriate comments and touching, the agency said.

The other young women at Lillian's school say they are propositioned just about every day by older men who offer them a chance of a better life in exchange for sex.

But so far from being "true in the same sense as if they were propositions of science", the definitions (2) and (3a) are simply false, at least if they are construed as accounts of what the words in question actually mean.

The standard platonist view is that they are propositions.

They are propositions whose only invariable parts are logical ideas.

They are propositions that ordinary people do not typically explicitly believe but rather take for granted in their everyday comings and goings.

For our purposes here we can think of the first element as the contents of the attitude expressed by the speech act and it would not distort the theory too much to say they are propositions.

The staffer told Politico that it was unclear whether they were being propositioned for sex or in vitro fertilization, a confusing landscape further complicated by the fact that Franks doesn't believe in abortions or processes that discard embryos.

Like the New Hampshire survey, the Pew survey found that 75percentt of the young people who had been propositioned said they were not distressed.

Be sure you have an idea already in mind, and something unique that your chosen influencer can't get somewhere else they're propositioned daily, and don't have time to follow through on every pitch.

Some gay men say they are similarly propositioned.