The couple's relationship had a decidedly shaky premise.
But it's founded on an exceedingly shaky premise, and it's written so broadly that it could give state voters veto power over large but purely local projects in which they have little or no stake.
Petitioners have been on notice since Blair v. Freeman, 125 U.S.App.D.C. 207, 370 F.2d 229 (1966), that nearby differentials were bottomed on a shaky statutory premise.
Racial mixing was something that could never be acknowledged because Jim Crow society teetered on the shaky premise that blacks and whites were separate species, even if a look around proved otherwise.
The second shaky premise is the notion that Republicans are keen on restoring the Bush dynasty.
In two crisp sentences Greig skewers the shaky premise on which the nuclear options rest.
This new US sitcom once again rolls out the cross-dressing cliches, on the supposedly timely but extremely shaky premise that women are now taking all the good jobs, thus forcing its male stars to drag up.
The court relied on the shaky premise that "criminal defendants and the prosecution have equal ability to seek information in confidential personnel records". From this premise, the court concluded that there was no Brady duty to search the personnel files because Brady does not require the prosecutor to learn of, or disclose, something that a reasonably diligent defendant could get on his own.
This is Aeschylus for the modern age, rightly leaving us to draw our own conclusions about the shaky premises on which political leaders go to war.
In a recent series of papers, we lay out a case that much research for the analysis of gene function from network-like data (using Guilt By Association; GBA) is based on somewhat shaky premises.
Perhaps more than any of the other tech giants, Facebook depends on the premise of trust and privacy, even though the social network has a shaky past in those areas.
