"a core premise" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a fundamental belief or idea that is central to a particular argument or message that is being communicated. Example: In his speech, the politician presented the core premise of his campaign: that education is the key to a prosperous and peaceful society.
The word "novel" implies something fresh, unprecedented, but it's a core premise of traditional Judaism that after biblical times, nothing really new ever occurs.
We are witnessing a blatant ploy to undercut a core premise of our constitutional democracy — that the people (and party) leaving office have an obligation to transfer their powers peacefully and professionally.
Utych found that a core premise of both political operatives and political scientists — that "moderate candidates should be more electable in a general election than ideologically extreme candidates" — is no longer true.
MARJA, Afghanistan — As American Marines and Afghan soldiers have fought their way into this Taliban stronghold, the performance of the Afghan troops has tested a core premise of the American military effort here: in the not-too-distant future, the security of this country can be turned over to indigenous forces created at the cost of American money and blood.
In the past decade, film criticism has become better than ever, by which I don't mean that every critic writing is better than those of the past but that criticism is better over all — more critics than ever have actually seen many classic movies and a wide range of current ones, because cinephilia, an ardor for wide-ranging moviegoing, is now a core premise for even attempting criticism.
It's also a core premise of the Wilsonian perspective on foreign policy (a.k.a. liberal internationalism or liberal interventionism).
He has expanded on its core premise, a concept of musical awareness contingent on physical experience, in subsequent writings, for both an academic and a general readership.
When Notation Capital first launched, it was based on a few core premises.
The film is award one star out of five on the AllRovi website, where reviewer Cavett Binion rules that it is a "fairly standard rip-off" of Alien in spite of the originality of its core premise, with a "rabid, eye-popping performance" from Geeson that is "more than a bit uncomfortable to watch".
Said Channing Tatum/Jamie Foxx release, which was a more progressive/big-hearted take on the core premise, earned $73.1m domestic and $132m worldwide, for a $205m cume but again on a $150m budget.
Those who suggest that the movie's core premise — war as a profit engine — is so five years ago are right in a way.
