Слово "proposition". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

"That's the proposition," he repeated to himself; "what will they-all do when the play is close and down to brass tacks?"

Now, I know some of you in this room find this to be a risky proposition.

Excitement was at its height among the Musketeers and their allies, and they even began to deliberate whether they should not set fire to the hotel to punish the insolence of M. de la Tremouille's domestics in daring to make a SORTIE upon the king's Musketeers. The proposition had been made, and received with enthusiasm, when fortunately eleven o'clock struck.

Little by little he drifted into liberalism, and then passed to the mildly sceptical proposition that no honesty or modesty was possible in our literature, or indeed in any other, that there could be nothing but “slashing at one another,” especially where the system of signed articles was prevalent.

Of course there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false".

He had accepted too long the proposition that he was the only normal person left.

This was a different proposition from crouching in frozen fear while the unknown lurked just alongside.

"That's where this music proposition started," said Kinney.

She particularly wanted to get Rosaleen alone, without David, rightly judging that Rosaleen alone would be a far easier proposition.