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Premise in sentence

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And I hope you'll come with me on my basic premise that words matter, that they shape the way we understand ourselves, the way we interpret the world and the way we treat others.
You know, it basically uses as its central premise Greek mythology.
And it's based on the premise that there are certain things that are easy for people, but really difficult for computers.
Now as seductive as the idea of control sounds, it's a false premise.
For whatever that you do, you begin from the premise that you're human together.
Well it starts from a very basic premise: of course, there's no God.
Because first of all, there's this false premise that such a thing as complete science exists.
But I don't feel that — I still feel that there are some types of women who are not represented that way, and one group that we'll focus on today are teens, because I think teenagers are especially contradictory and still figuring it out, and in the '90s there was "Freaks and Geeks" and "My So-Called Life," and their characters, Lindsay Weir and Angela Chase, I mean, the whole premise of the shows were just them trying to figure themselves out, basically, but those shows only lasted a season each, and I haven't really seen anything like that on TV since.
The second false premise that we make when we're trying to help Africa is that sometimes we think that there is something called a government in Africa that cares about its people, serves the interests of the people, and represents the people.
So after traveling and talking to people in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas, we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.
And the premise of M&Co was, we don't know anything, but that's all right, we're going to do it anyway.
So, the premise in the studio was, there are no boundaries, there is no fear.
Well, to understand that, we need to understand why cities are special, why mayors are so different than prime ministers and presidents, because my premise is that a mayor and a prime minister are at the opposite ends of a political spectrum.
Porter agreed with that premise, but he qualified it.
Rick Perry: Absolutely, I think it's— Paul Bloom: Each of the people onstage agreed with the premise of her question, which is as Americans, we should care more about Americans than about other people.
The premise behind the Mystery Magic Box was the following: 15 dollars buys you 50 dollars worth of magic.
If you've ever seen the show "Intervention," it's a pretty simple premise.
When people take pictures of these buildings out of that context they look really weird, and my premise is that they make a lot more sense when they're photographed or seen in that space.
(Laughter and applause) (Drums) (Cello) Hey! (Looped samples of onstage sounds) (Cello music and looped samples) (Music ends) (Applause and cheers) I recently completed an unsanctioned, unsupervised psychological experiment on my children, (Laughter) the premise of which was $10,000 in cash on the kitchen table and a sign next to it that said 'Don't touch the money yet!', and before I dive into it, you should know that we are a game-playing family.
To which he replied, "The whole premise of your study is wrong.
And I discovered that the premise of transplants is pretty straightforward.
I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested in hearing what they've come up with before they call me.
And the idea, their premise was that we wanted to show pieces of sculpture on the street, and there'd be no subjective decision about what was the best.
That's, in fact, the premise of bounded rationality.
So it's the same premise as bounded rationality, that we have a human mind that is bounded in some sort of way and relying on shortcuts, and that those shortcuts can sometimes lead us astray.
But what if we question the premise itself?
But in this case, the question was more like, "Um, are you kidding?" Because, they said, the premise of all this work was that kids were bored with old libraries, musty old libraries.
They argue that it doesn't reveal anything because its premise is so unrealistic that study participants don't take it seriously.
The premise of the title was that the underwater world was a quiet world.
So premise one is we'd be destroying the world, and then premise two is, why don't we get prepared for it?
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