Sentence examples for challenges the premise from inspiring English sources

Her version of her father's past challenges the premise of "Father Joe": that Tony Hendra found deliverance through faith and atoning for his failings.

Redefining consumption in this way challenges the premise underlying current market structures, in which legal mechanisms such as confidentiality agreements and intellectual property rights are often invoked to shroud the details of production from the inquiring public.

As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".

(Bernstein challenges the premise of Edward Said's "Orientalism," arguing that "the eroticized vision of the East carries a hard kernel of truth, which the followers of Said are loath to acknowledge").

…Though the theory of intelligent design does not identify the agent responsible for the information the signature in the cell, it does affirm that the ultimate cause of life is personal...The case for intelligent design challenges the premise of the materialist credo and holds out the possibility of reversing the philosophy of despair that flows from it.

The present study is pioneering in the sense that it challenges the premises of former models.

He challenged the premise of the question.

"Let me challenge the premise of your question," Spiegel said.

It's been labeled "mostly true" by the nonpartisan referee Politifact, though others have challenged the premise of the piece.

But I didn't fall for it — I simply challenged the premise of the questions with humor.

When I reached Hernández and asked her what she made of the arrest, she challenged the premise of my question.