Sentence examples for cardinal premise from inspiring English sources
The Herald Tribune pieces were sophomoric enough, but they were predicated firmly on the cardinal premise of all journalism, which is that a cat may look at a king.
In doing so, Mr. Quinn, a Democrat, also ratified the cardinal's belief that religious thought has a place in the formulation of law, a premise the governor's fellow liberals generally resist.
That sort of upset conclave is the premise of "The Shoes of the Fisherman," a 1968 movie in which the cardinals, tired of round after round of ritualized balloting, listen to one of their number talk about the time when, in a Siberian prison camp, he almost killed a man — and decide to elect him Pope.
And with disgraced Scottish cardinal Keith O'Brien lending new weight to charges of hypocrisy against the Church's stance on homosexuality, La Repubblica newspaper noted that the presence of "Italy's best known gay sauna in the premises is an embarrassment".
The Cardinal needed more.
Anathema!" the Cardinal sings.
Of insulting Cardinal Wolsey.
