Sentence examples for disputed premise from inspiring English sources
The State House on Friday approved a measure that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, based on the disputed premise that a fetus can feel pain at that point.
The clinic is not challenging another new North Dakota law that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, based on the disputed premise that a fetus can feel pain by then.
Some of this is just a politician's dodge; Love didn't want to answer the question, so she disputed the premise.
In a separate concurring opinion, Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia disputed the premise that the Constitution had anything at all to say about visitation rights or conditions of confinement in general.
During an answer about racial profiling, Mr. Cain disputed the premise of the moderator, Wolf Blitzer, who had asked whether Muslim Americans should be subjected to extra screening at airports.
William E. Brewer Jr., president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, and a practicing lawyer in Raleigh, N.C., disputed the premise of the study that Chapter 13 was always more burdensome and always required debtors to pay more to their creditors.
In recent years, however, many in the scientific community have disputed the premise, pointing out that it fails to take into account increases in emissions that result from changes in land use associated with growing crops for fuel.
But Mr. Komanoff argued that the focus was wrong, and disputed the premise of the Transportation Department's recent report, that lower use of seat belts constituted a public health crisis.
Though it may be disputed, this premise seems plausible.
