Sentence examples for treacherous proposition from inspiring English sources
This made backing up a treacherous proposition.
Moviemakers have to somehow negotiate this new distance between the material and the audience, and it can prove a treacherous proposition.
Such changes of systems and mindsets can be a treacherous proposition in MLS, as Aron Winter found at Toronto last season - as the disparity between his desired style and available personnel proved too much.
Like any still-evolving genre of criticism, pop writing is perpetually mired in an identity crisis, a sign of health and vibrancy for the form that can also make assembling a book like "Shake It Up" a slippery and treacherous proposition.
Iraq and Afghanistan: The shifting sands of Iraq are too treacherous to predict, so it is by necessity a fifty-fifty proposition at best that it will emerge from its quagmire in a relatively reasonable shape.
Joachim had a daughter' expresses the same proposition as 'the father of Mary had a daughter': "The word 'proposition' is treacherous," he cautions (p. 48).
You treacherous, treacherous Irish".
"Cloying, treacherous, relentless quicksand!
