To neither of these propositions could the United States assent.
The denial by this Government of the Colombian propositionsdid not, however, imply the admission of a belligerent status on the part of the insurgents.
Our treaty is now terminable on one year's notice, but propositions to abrogate it would be, in my judgment, most ill advised.
Cakes are nice", which is the last of the three Propositions at the head of this Section.
Mark, in a large Diagram, the following pairs of Propositions from the preceding Section: then mark a small Diagram in accordance with it, &c.
Two more remarks about Propositions need to be made.
What two partialPropositions make up, when taken together, "all x are y"?
In such treatises, Propositions have quite different meanings from what they have in our 'Game of Logic', and it will be well to understand exactly what the difference is.
Rutledge, to learn the propositionsof the commissioners, by whom authorized, and to whom addressed.
The rest of your friend's reasonings and propositionsappear to me truly just and judicious; I will therefore only add, that I am as desirous of his acquaintance and intimacy, as he was of my opinion.
The propositions had been examined and discussed in the Sioux villages, and the bark which we found contained their answer.
Propositions leading to a peace were made and accepted, and the simplicity of the mode could only be equalled by the distinctness of the representations, and by the ease with which they were understood.
In order, however, plainly to authorize the construction of highways in the Adirondacks, our Association caused two alternative propositions to be introduced in the Legislature of 1910.
Four great reservoir projects have been located and surveyed; many other propositions have been tentatively examined, so that all water storage possibilities of the State are approximately known.
Applause) Now, I want to state a few propositionsas to each of the four great categories of the natural resources, which seem to me to include not all but a very considerable proportion of the fundamental things that Conservation people seek.
Persons who devote their brains and energies in the direction of furthering worthy mining propositions do really "promote" the interests of such companies.
Bancroft when he says, "To my mind, there is more credit due to those who take up the hard propositions and make them pay than to those who exploit bonanzas along purely scientific lines.
Many gold mines have become worthless propositions merely through changes in the ore that have rendered further work unremunerative.
When all the propositionswe have drawn up have been realized by social legislation, the difference which now exists between marriage and free love will be little more than a form.
These propositions have only a legal value, and will only be required when the conjoints cannot come to a mutual understanding.
Various propositions have been made to give more dignity to the unions of free love, which now exist and which always have existed.
I do not pretend to build a new social system on this idea, for many propositions of the kind have already been made.
The permission or prohibition of marriage is a delicate question at the present day, but will be less so in the future, if our propositions are realized.
Then the propositions of Euclid contain affirmations as to the relations of practically-rigid bodies.
All other propositions of geometry are logical inferences from the axioms (which are to be taken in the nominalistic sense only).
The closer connection in sentiment between the first two propositions has led to a conventional visual representation that must not deceive the analytic spirit.
We shall find these propositions verified in the history of Spain.
Also the Parliament, at the Scots' request, sent propositionsof peace to him, and these proposals were promptly enforced by the Scots.
Before entering on this it may be proper to state distinctly certain propositions which it is admitted on all hands are essential to prove the obligations of the Government.
Not only Buffon, but also Taine and his successors, have, from a few individual cases, deduced general propositions which are not of general application.
At the end of two years subordinate propositions were correctly employed.
Grabon's propositions and conclusions were referred to Antonio, Cardinal of Verona, who submitted them to Cardinal Peter d'Ailly and Chancellor Gerson.
He wrote to the pope that certain propositions of accommodation entertained by the cardinal-legate were disgraceful, and spoke hopefully of negotiations which he was carrying on with the German princes for a new crusade against the Hussites.
Resolved, That those persons in the North who do not subscribe to the foregoing propositions are too insignificant in numbers and influence to excite the serious attention or alarm of any portion of the people of the Republic.
But, to the honor of the islanders, these propositions met with little favor.
And in such reasoning, the truth of the following propositions is too evident to require demonstration: 1st.
Holding propositions is not necessarily believing them, no matter how tenaciously they may be adhered to.
All he knows is that the propositions he has been taught to regard as a full and perfect statement of Christianity have little or nothing to do with his everyday experience; they seem to belong to a different world.
This is why venerable propositions which seem obscurantist to us originally possessed vital significance to their framers; the ethical and emotional content were greater than the form of statement, as they always must be.
The concessions they had made for many years and the propositions which followed secession proved their desire to preserve the peace.
Neutrality, Peaceful, of a State, all propositions for, refused by the Government of the United States, 2.
How unlike this were all the propositions offered to us, will be seen in the proceedings which took place in the conferences, and in the terms of surrender offered to our soldiers.
Grant expressed himself as satisfied with them, and Lee requested that he would formally reduce the propositions to writing.
These propositions call for a notice as well because of their fallacy as their enormity.
As this dilemma is an evident consequence of the principle, that every idea arises from a similar impression, so our decision betwixt the propositions of the dilemma is no more doubtful.
And we may here add, that these propositions are equally true in the inverse, and that whatever objects are separable are also distinguishable, and that whatever objects are distinguishable, are also different.
Now since these ideas are so loose and uncertain, I would fain ask any mathematician what infallible assurance he has, not only of the more intricate, and obscure propositions of his science, but of the most vulgar and obvious principles?
In that case God would be dependent on His work; it would be co-eternal with Him; and so we fall back into one of the propositions most antagonistic to God.
This being so, am I not justified in saying to you: 'One of the two propositionsunder which God is annihilated before the tribunal of our reason must be true, the other is false.
Cardinal Cajetan, after making vain representations to Luther, finally demanded the withdrawal of two propositions which he had plainly taught and acknowledged as his.
In these Disputations propositions drawn up either by himself or by his colleagues, were defended by his pupils under his own direction.
Yet in these propositions we read: “Man, who has become a rotten tree, can will and do only what is evil.
It seems therefore desirable to examine the propositions 'that Law ought to be obeyed' and 'that promises ought to be kept,' considered as independent principles.
I do not, however, think that any of these propositions can on reflection be maintained to be self-evident.
We may of course form general propositions by induction from these particular conscientious judgments, and arrange them systematically: but any interest which such a system may have will be purely speculative.
But this qualification seems to render the propositions first laid down unimportant from our present practical point of view, whatever may be their theoretical value.
I have other propositions for a book, but have doubted the propriety of interfering with good newspaper engagements, except my way as an author could be demonstrated to be plain before me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propositions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
