After "Banshee" debuted, Cinemax rolled out "Strike Back," "Hunted" and "The Knick," dramas with very different premises but similar marching orders.
"Whereas the school district rests on a very different foundation or premise: that of educating students.
Toward the end of "Trainwreck," Doyle comes to a point that could serve as the premise for a very different book: "Women, it turns out, are not symbols of anything, other than themselves".
Obama's unarticulated premise was that America needs to let the world run itself a bit more... which was actually George W. Bush's premise, in a very different key.
Don't let the conventional-looking first few minutes, in which Ms. Scranton sets up the premise, fool you; this is a very different view of the war than you'll see on the nightly news.
In moving its products to the cloud, Microsoft is going to have to navigate a very different world one that is often diametrically opposed in both incentive and purpose to the on-premise paradigm it knows so well.
While the United Nations' climate negotiations proceed from the premise that countries must agree to a joint response to an inherently communal problem, geoengineering raises a very different prospect.
A very different proposition.
