Secretary of State George P. Shultz said Friday that setting up a blockade of arms shipments under United Nations auspices would be "a complicated proposition."

This is a complicated proposition for Mohiam, however, because artificial insemination is forbidden in the wake of the Butlerian Jihad.

More complicated propositions can be dealt with on the same lines.

Travel to Bonaire, once a complicated proposition, is simple.

Still, Archie could have wandered out of any number of screwball comedies; Nero Wolfe is a far more complicated proposition.

"The Suburbs of Heaven" so mixes tragedy with low comedy that any response becomes a complicated proposition.

Yes, I realise that this is actually quite a complicated proposition to implement but it's hardly revolutionary.

Keeping it all simple is a fairly complicated proposition, he said, adding: "The idea is that you, as a guest, shouldn't have to think about making something work.

But while drinking at Varietal is a delight, eating is a more complicated proposition - exciting if you hit the best dishes, exasperating if you don't.

We're not introducing any new principles or processes in the weapon itself, aside from the flintlock, which isn't an especially complicated proposition.