Sentence The expression "hold premises" is not a commonly used one in written English, so it is not considered "correct" or "standard" English.
It can be used as informal slang and usually means to "preserve something" or to "maintain an idea or belief". For example: The professor held premises throughout the lecture that all students would later need to memorize for the exam.
"His view of social and political life," Isaiah Berlin wrote, has "an authenticity, a concreteness, and a sense of reality" unusual in philosophy; it is "generously receptive, deeply humane and formed by the truth as he sees it, and not as it ought to be in accordance with dogmatically held premises or overmastering ideology".
To reduce disturbance to the birds, measurements were conducted on the birds' holding premises and the birds were returned to their aviaries immediately after measurements were complete.
These collective observations from our current analysis have potential far-reaching implications regarding the currently held premises related to F-FDG PET/CT oncologic imaging.
As well as examining the number of cattle moving according to day of the year, movements were also grouped by animal holding premises and the number of premises reporting births, deaths or movements on any given day was analysed.
COMMENT FROM JAKE: Do either of you question the commonly held premise that AQ requires a global emir?
Developments in computational techniques including clinical decision support systems, information processing, wireless communication and data mining hold new premises in Personal Health Systems.
Although larger trials will be needed to address the impact of these drugs on ECD prognosis and to select the most effective treatment, targeted therapies hold the premises to drastically change the outcome of this condition.
In his Comment on Carson's retirement, in the issue of June 1 , 1992 Adam Gopnik worried about what the future might hold: The premise of Carson's show was that, given a chance, things happen; the premise of most contemporary television is that everything must be made to happen….
Much as I agree with those who hold the premise of his guilt in war crimes and crimes against humanity, killing him by extra-lawful means would still be wrong.
To be fair, the author does hold the premise that critical information about the genocide has been withheld and calls for archives in Rwanda to be opened.
