Sentence examples for unacceptable proposition from inspiring English sources
It rests on the "unacceptable proposition: that the right to free speech includes a right to circumstances that encourage one to speak, and a right that others grasp and respect what one means to say...These are obviously not rights that any society can recognise or enforce.
"The fact that provocation can operate as a defense to murder in the context of a non-violent sexual advance is a wholly unacceptable proposition," Thomas said, adding that gay panic defense, "seems to suggest that homosexuals are in some way less entitled to the protection of the law than others".
from a definition pertaining to the arithmetic of infinite series, and that it is blatantly unacceptable to deduce empirical propositions from mere definitions.
In return for her support, Gandhi demanded that a law establishing special courts to try her and her son Sanjay Gandhi be repealed – a proposition that was unacceptable to Charan Singh.
Some responses to the argument deny this assumption: Helm (1988), for instance, suggests that all temporal truths can be expressed by wholly tenseless propositions, though he also notes that if one finds this unacceptable, he would be content with the claim that for every tensed proposition there is a tenseless one that reports the same fact.
Countless judicial decisions and legislative enactments have relied on the ancient proposition that a governing majority's belief that certain sexual behavior is "immoral and unacceptable" constitutes a rational basis for regulation.
"Countless judicial decisions and legislative enactments have relied on the ancient proposition that a governing majority's belief that certain sexual behavior is immoral and unacceptable constitutes a rational basis for regulation," he has written.
Absolutely unacceptable".
"Slut" is a slightly trickier proposition; a word now so frequently used to slap down, silence and shame women that its presence in a book for young children might well seem jolting, even unacceptable, to a casual browser.
