Sentence examples for a premise on from inspiring English sources

The need for active, purposeful management of the Earth's systems clashes with a premise on which much of modernity, including environmentalism, is founded, namely, that man stands apart from nature.

This post-national and post-racial view of culture is certainly a direct critique of the MCP's core assumptions, and allows us to centre the policy on common bonds, which must prevail over differences as a premise on which to formulate policies.

This "contamination" by current affairs is something the novel deftly achieves as it alternates between past and present, echoing a premise on the first page that "the present is dry, but add reverb and you can hear time reverse its flow, slipping on into the past, into echo and disaster".

This "contamination" by current affairs is something the novel deftly achieves as it alternates between past and present, echoing a premise on the first page that "the present is dry, but add reverb and you can hear time reverse its flow, slipping on into the past, into echo and disaster".

This is a premise on which randomised controlled trials are based.

We thus examined whether our data set has the property that the frequencies of indels and substitutions are positively correlated, a premise on which the study of Chen et al. (2009) was based.

Inspectors visiting a premises on official business must offer proper identification.

A couple of years ago, a VICE intern was staying at a premises on Greek Street in Soho – centre of town, baby! aha – for £250.

It's like watching a rapid-fire game show premised on calling out archaeological bluff.

In the meantime, an airy premise on a trendy street in Tirana has been rented and renovations are going full speed ahead.

It's hard to work as a journalist in a system premised on propaganda one day and then think of yourself as Sy Hersh the next day.