Every keystroke, however strident, that appears in this essay rests upon a single premise: those who believe in basic human rights should assert them universally, and our failure to do so is at the expense of women and Muslim reformers throughout the world.
In his London address upon accepting the prize, Solzhenitsyn summed up his belief that virtually every problem we face in the West can be reduced to a single premise: "men have forgotten God". Broadly, Solzhenitsyn's point was that in our secularistic age, we have overthrown spirituality for materialism but with far-reaching ramifications--including the loss of freedom.
"Their argument is based on a single premise, which I think is flawed," he said.
He said: "The whole of this review has to be based on one single premise – does what we recommend support and facilitate the continuing improvement in standards generated within a school?
Last Saturday's Guardian column by Polly Toynbee boiled down to one single premise – Britain needs a leftwing party, and if Labour won't do the job, then the Lib Dems ought to.
Credibility, then, rests on the single premise that the US recovery will continue to be strong and allow a full, gradual and uninterrupted reduction in the asset-buying programme.
While promoters are certainly no strangers to hyperbole, DuBoef ticked off dozens of factors that come into play, all of which center on a single premise: more visitors spend more money.
This chapter deals with dimensional analysis, which is a method by information about a phenomenon is deduced from the single premise that the phenomenon can be described by a dimensionally correct equation among certain variables.
If a contrary conclusion were reached in the present case, it could rest upon nothing more than the single premise that the amount of the tax is so excessive that it will bring about the destruction of appellant's business, a premise which, standing alone, this court heretofore has uniformly rejected as furnishing no juridical ground for striking down a taxing act.
This is all based on a single premise: An undergraduate education matters.
Patricia Kitcher (2011: 115 18) argues against the single premise about self-consciousness interpretation on historical and textual grounds.
