His approach to opera is predicated on what he sees as its straightforward similarities to classical theater.
An infield is like a chamber music group: in both cases, he said, "their instincts are predicated on what they know their teammates are going to do".
Our newfound bullishness on Tate has been predicated on what we think has been a very strong sweetener (HFCS) Calendar 2016 pricing round in the US.
Whether it was a more relaxed attitude to gay rights, attempts to make Britain more ethnically inclusive or an assumption that the age of deference was over, much was predicated on what had been witnessed after Diana's death.
The wealth and power of hedge funds, and those handsome fees, were predicated on what now sounds like a hollow promise: to make money year in and year out.
According to past and present military and intelligence officials, however, Washington's support for the pardon of Khan was predicated on what Musharraf has agreed to do next: look the other way as the U.S. hunts for Osama bin Laden in a tribal area of northwest Pakistan dominated by the forbidding Hindu Kush mountain range, where he is believed to be operating.
Of course, they are smart and they'll likely go to college, but so much of their experience and ability is predicated on what suddenly becomes a rather esoteric skill.
The report argues that interconnection's importance is predicated on what it allows companies to do: namely, to scale at rates that are otherwise impossible, empowering the type of online enterprise growth we now all expect.
For G2 Crowd co-founder and serial entrepreneur Godard Abel, the decision to start the company was predicated on what he perceived as a huge hole in the enterprise market.
As we have seen, given common knowledge of the game and of rationality, forward induction reasoning can lead the agents to an apparent contradiction: The classical argument for backwards induction is predicated on what agents predict they would do at nodes in the tree that are never reached.
