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Example sentences for "proposition"

Lexicographically close words:
proposes; proposeth; proposicion; proposing; propositio; propositional; propositiones; propositions; proposito; propositum
  1. This proposition was received with favor and at once adopted.

  2. In pondering on the trammels of responsibility the sour thought occurred to him, as it had many times in the past year, that commanding a town was a different proposition from being ruler of the Jefferson P.

  3. And a day later, half sullenly, the Cap'n accepted the proposition of the directors of the bridge company, who had said some very flattering things to him about the reliability of the Sproul family.

  4. But I've got a proposition to make, and perhaps I can make it through you.

  5. I've got a proposition to make so that there won't be no pull-haulin' and lawyers to pay, and all that.

  6. I know I promised not to talk business with you, but couldn't you consider a proposition to stand in even?

  7. Got to have money to square up bills and take the cuss off'm this town of welchin' on a straight proposition to outsiders who came down here all in good faith after prizes.

  8. Here are six square and responsible citizens of Smyrna that heard you make your proposition and saw you pass that check," declared Hiram, stoutly, awake thoroughly, now that his prized plot was menaced.

  9. That'll kill our business proposition deader'n it is now.

  10. Do you think it's a decent proposition to step up to me and ask me to sell you gold dollars for a cent apiece?

  11. The Colonel admitted that Mr. Bodge had located a well for him by use of a witch-hazel rod, but allowed that the buried-treasure proposition was too stiff batter for him to swallow.

  12. Your proposition appears to me very honourable, and I shall heartily accept it.

  13. The partisan's proposition was all the more agreeable to the gauchos, as they wanted a pretext to introduce themselves to the general.

  14. This proposition by no means pleased them; it was putting themselves under the paws of the lion.

  15. Privateering, proposition of Congress of Paris for abolishing, VIII.

  16. A proposition in the Legislature of the District of Columbia, opening the Normal School without distinction of color, failed through the vote of a colored member, which was the occasion of the following letter, written in reply to an inquiry.

  17. According to him, those having the affirmative of a proposition should have the direction of the committee.

  18. And I accompanied this with a proposition to require in the reconstructed States “a system of public schools open to all, without distinction of race or color,” which was lost by a tie vote, being 20 to 20.

  19. In familiar language, a proposition is committed to its friends and not to its enemies.

  20. I doubt if the Senate would receive with much favor any proposition from the House especially applicable to us.

  21. Mr. Churchill's second proposition is the correlative of the first.

  22. I am quite prepared to state that proposition in its simplest form.

  23. I will submit a proposition to the House as a broad, general rule.

  24. It is only a most extensive and exhaustive examination of the accuracy of a proposition which will warrant secure reasoning upon it.

  25. We cannot, in his sense,'assent' to an historical proposition as such, but only to the authority which has ordered us to believe it.

  26. The healthy human intellect will never believe that the same proposition may be true for faith and untrue in fact; but this is the Modernist contention.

  27. Nor is it likely, perhaps, that the plain Englishman will ever allow that an ostensibly historical proposition may be false as a matter of fact, but true for faith.

  28. Shipherd, or a copy, by the first mail, for they thought my proposition would be accepted.

  29. He met him according to the plan, and, after traveling all night again, another proposition was made to sell him again, and he would again divide and give him half, which now amounted to a large sum for Jack.

  30. The proposition came from the Methodist element, but I did not deem it wise to organize from any one denomination, as divergent opinions would create controversy that would bring harm to many tender minds.

  31. I read the letter I had received from his lawyer on leaving Cincinnati, containing a proposition to do the best he could for him, and with that object in view he staved off the case to the next session of their court.

  32. Whipple, of the New York Division, and sent with it a copy of the proposition I had made to J.

  33. If such a proposition were submitted to us in any other domain we would indignantly resent it as an insult to our intelligence.

  34. You're about the freshest proposition I ever came across!

  35. My proposition is-- But can you raise eight thousand?

  36. Packard is ready to make you a better proposition than Blenham's.

  37. Volplaning down to the village is quite a different proposition from a straight-away flight across!

  38. After all, it's a terrific proposition I'm putting up to these simple fishers of the Abyss.

  39. When the proposition was made one evening to Molly, her face lighted and she emitted a sigh of perfect consent.

  40. The proposition received the most enthusiastic support from the Settlement Residents.

  41. This proposition may be accepted with confidence.

  42. In support of the proposition that I maintain, I may mention still another fact.

  43. In this way the proposition is to first measure coca against tea, then coffee against guarana, and finally to compare the four agents, using pure caffeine as a kind of standard to measure by.

  44. In this respect Weismann has amended his original proposition that the germ-cells were immortal, like unicellular organisms.

  45. This is a fundamental proposition of cell-life, not to be doubted, and to be taken into account in the presentation of theories of heredity.

  46. In a strict and literal interpretation such a proposition would be incorrect, for the germ-cells are immortal only so far as they contain the germplasm, the immortal part of the organism.

  47. From the proposition that like begets only like the corollary by no means follows that mother- and daughter-cells must appear identical from the beginning.

  48. I was totally unaware of my name being recorded as voting on the proposition until long after I left the Senate, when of course there was no opportunity to secure a correction of the journal.

  49. It would be difficult to formulate a proposition better calculated to taint the proceedings with a partisan bias than this one by Mr. Drake.

  50. The proposition was put to vote with the following result: Yeas--Messrs.

  51. From what I recollect of it, the thing was that he was making a proposition making suggestions as to what their policy should be.

  52. Confident, sir, that the loyal people of this country demand the adoption of some such proposition as I am about to submit, I am determined that no effort on my part shall be wanting to see that their expectations are not disappointed.

  53. Our minister at Madrid is instructed to renew the proposition and to press it again upon the consideration of Her Catholic Majesty's Government.

  54. And under this proposition and enactment the original contract was made.

  55. To subsume one proposition under another.

  56. The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is affirmed or denied.

  57. You would have to build a railroad to the coast to get your phosphate out to market, and you would have to finish up the county road you are building, which would be a losing proposition from now on.

  58. It is only for some artificial purpose that we ever look at the proposition in the aspect in which the predicate also is thought of as a class-name, either including the subject only, or the subject and something more.

  59. And it is true that what is called a complex proposition is often not a proposition at all, but several propositions, held together by a conjunction.

  60. A proposition being a portion of discourse in which something is affirmed or denied of something, the first division of propositions is into affirmative and negative.

  61. A simple proposition is that in which one predicate is affirmed or denied of one subject.

  62. Like other things, a proposition has attributes which may be predicated of it.

  63. To infer a proposition from a previous proposition or propositions; to give credence to it, or claim credence for it, as a conclusion from something else; is to reason, in the most extensive sense of the term.

  64. If we knew on what other relations to light, or on what peculiarities of structure, opacity depends, we might find that this is only an apparent, not a real, exception to the general proposition in the text.

  65. If we now suppose the subject also to be a connotative name, the meaning expressed by the proposition has advanced a step farther in complication.

  66. I went directly from the interview with Mr. Blair to the office of General Scott; told him of the proposition that had been made to me, and my decision.

  67. His recent proposition of inserting my portrait where the family history is given takes from it a part of my obligation, and if it were believed that such an addition would add to the interest of the book, I should assent.

  68. It was to his publisher's proposition of placing his portrait in the "Introduction" to the new work that he at first objected, and then agreed, as stated in the two letters just given.

  69. Dear Sir: I return you my thanks for the compliment paid me by your proposition to write a history of my life.

  70. I hope that Agnes's neuralgia is better, and as she has not accepted my proposition I presume she declines.

  71. It is gotten up by Miss Mary Jones and other kind people here, and the proposition is so favourably received that I hope a handsome sum will be realised.

  72. To collect it merely for distribution to the States would seem to be highly impolitic, if not as dangerous as the proposition to retain it in the Treasury.

  73. One proposition is that lasting peace requires genuine understanding and active cooperation among the most powerful nations.

  74. One proposition advocated has been the reduction of the tariff as a means of reaching the evils of the trusts which fall within the category I have described.

  75. The truth is that it was not until many years after the origin of the Federal Government that such a proposition was first advanced.

  76. This proposition was accepted, as Congress in February last was informed.

  77. It seemed to be the only proposition which could be devised which would retain even the semblance of equality in our favor.

  78. A council was thereupon called, and it was agreed that the person who had made the proposition should be thrown upon the first coast they should reach.

  79. A third proposition was that there could not be what, if it be not a contradiction in terms, we will call a one-sided correspondence.

  80. Another proposition which Allen established as a rule of conduct was that between two trading towns in the same neighbourhood there must almost of necessity be correspondence.

  81. How could the Court have laid down such a proposition as that?

  82. The scheme as he suggested it was a fair business proposition that might have paid ten per cent.

  83. Looking at it Alan bethought him of his City days and of the hundreds of thousands of pounds capital with which this unique proposition might have been floated.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proposition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advance; affair; affirmation; allegation; announcement; approach; argument; assertion; assumption; attempt; avowal; axiom; basis; broach; business; chat; commitment; conclusion; conjecture; contract; creed; data; deal; declaration; dictate; dictum; doctrine; effort; engagement; enterprise; enunciation; formula; foundation; ground; guesswork; hypothesis; importune; inference; instance; introduce; invitation; launch; law; manifesto; measure; moot; motion; move; obligation; offer; operation; overture; pass; plan; pose; position; postulate; predicate; predication; prefer; premise; presumption; presupposition; principle; proclamation; profession; proffer; program; project; projection; pronouncement; proposal; propose; proposition; propound; prospectus; protest; protestation; purpose; put; question; recommend; request; resolution; rule; say; saying; scenario; scheme; solicit; stance; stand; start; statement; submit; suggest; suggestion; supposing; supposition; surmise; task; tender; theorem; thesis; topic; truism; truth; utterance; venture; vouch; word; work