proposition

We were maintaining households on both sides of the Atlantic, an expensive proposition.

"And the American interest is not the interest of some abstract utopia or matrix of propositions and ideas, but the American people."

Californians passed propositions in the 1990s that sought to make life miserable for undocumented immigrants, ended government-sponsored affirmative action and banned bilingual education.

That is still a defensible proposition, despite everything that has happened.

He helped get California’s first propositions to ban indoor smoking on the ballot in the late ’70s.