Sentence examples for historical premises from inspiring English sources

Their historical premises are not without doubt and, at the very least, are overstated.

In academic writings, and in many of the scholarly amicus briefs filed to assist the Court in this case, there are fundamental criticisms of the historical premises relied upon by the majority and concurring opinions in Bowers.

Helmut Schmidt, the former German chancellor and a close friend of many former Republican officeholders, recently wrote an analysis of the historical premises of American foreign policy, which he finds in the competing strains of isolationism, internationalism and, most worrisome, unilateral imperialism.

Such nationalistic muscle-flexing not only rests on sometimes dubious historical premises, but also on a myopic understanding of culture itself, which has never confined itself to national limits.

Both of the books' historical premises and practical prescriptions have been challenged.

His argument was made before the Orange's snub last season, and was based upon a more historical premise.

If the setup sounds familiar, that is because "The Silence of the Lambs" was a more audaciously fictional take on the same historical premise.

Excuses, one and all, to bother and berate people on some flimsy historical premise until they burst out crying, and have the narrator conclude: "Well, I guess we've really learned something".

But Elton spends so long setting up both his rickety historical premise and the cod physics of time travel that he forgets to make Stanton's dislocations emotionally meaningful, let alone thrilling.

"I'm a bit nervous about the word 'close'; when you say that to Aboriginal people in Australia, the hair stands up on the back of their necks because it has an historical premise, because we were forced off our land in 1930s and 1940s," he said.

It's a dubious art historical premise.