Sentence examples for unusual proposition from inspiring English sources

His neighbor Addie Moore Jane Fondaa) drops by with an unusual proposition.

In its gender balance, The Honourable Woman is an unusual proposition.

Mr. Nevins's effort began last week with calls to the bookstores with an unusual proposition involving Mr. DeVos's new book.

Philosophy with attitude is an unusual proposition in British academia, but for most of his career he has been happy to play by the normal rules - even down to the practised air of abstracted dishevelment.

The unusual proposition by Banco Santander to hand out 1.38 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in shares to private-banking clients for losses linked to the Bernard L. Madoff fraud case puts pressure on other banks to follow suit.

CHAVAGNAC, France IN the fall of 1988, a local farmer and self-trained cook named Danièle Delpeuch was approached by a series of mysterious government officials with an unusual proposition: Would she move immediately to Paris to become the "personal chef" of President François Mitterrand?

In other words, we cover the world and the myriad facts composing it with hypotheses or conjectures of a general nature in order to understand, foresee and manipulate them, and from these we can deduce unusual propositions that, if verified, will confirm those hypotheses, which will then pass on to the rank of laws, though always revisable.

But then it can be hard to remember just how unusual a proposition the opera was in 1924, when it had its premiere in Dresden, and how unusual it remains.

There were some catches, however, that made for an unusual business proposition, starting with the fact that Internet Brands had not bought the exclusive right to the material on the site.

INDIANAPOLIS – While betting on the actual result of the Super Bowl is, obviously, a popular activity for many fans, the unusual "prop," or proposition wagers, can often be more intriguing.

On paper "The Cleveland Show" (which makes its debut on Sept. 27) is an unusual, even perilous proposition: it is one of the rare programs on network television focusing on an African-American family, but its creators and its star are white.