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Most official discussions have been premised on the notion that D.A.I. will not be reached until CO2 levels hit four hundred and fifty parts per million.
For one thing, the book that Henry, the writer, was dissuaded from publishing seems to have been premised on precisely this cavalier attitude to reality.
"It has finally come to light that the F.I.S.C.'s authorizations of this vast collection program have been premised on a flawed depiction of how the N.S.A. uses" the phone call data.
Decades of punditry, pop sociology and prejudice have been premised on this neat division — from the religious right's Reagan-era claim to be a "Moral Majority" oppressed by a secular elite, to Barack Obama's unfortunate description of heartland America "clinging" to religion.
The British invasions of the past – cultural invasions, I mean, not actual invasions – have been premised on national archetypes such as the bounder (see Terry Thomas, David Niven), the fop (Hugh Grant, Colin Firth), or the cheeky chappie (Michael Caine, The Beatles).
If Ghomeshi is guilty of these assaults, he must have believed that he could get away with them for ever, and his preemptive strike against the credibility of his victims must have been premised on the confidence he would keep getting away with them.
Their lives had been premised on a frankly elitist idea: an attorney was above the fray.
I think that's because they've failed to realise that this acceleration of debt and credit and the ability to actually service that debt has been premised on this abundant availability of cheap fossil fuels.
"Our entire campaign has been premised that the president will make good on his promises and rhetoric on climate change," said Dan Kessler, a spokesman for 350.org, a group waging a campaign against construction of the pipeline.
Judge Gerard Hogan said the initial decision by the watchdog had been premised on the validity of the safe harbour agreement, which was recently declared invalid by the ECJ after another, separate two-year case by Schrems against Facebook.
"The comfort level that exists with embryonic stem cell research has been premised on the idea that the embryos would be lost anyway," said R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin.
