"Hold the premises" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the act of maintaining or preserving certain premises (e.g. a set of assumptions, beliefs, or principles). For example, you might say: "The speaker did an admirable job of holding the premises of the argument, even in the face of strong opposition."
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….
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.
Such trials hold the premise of being both 'pragmatic' (enabling the uptake of treatments in daily care by limning to routine clinical decision-making and incorporating the heterogeneity of patients and health care professionals) and 'systematic' (establishing the effectiveness of treatments by means of a scientific method of experimental design and predefined outcome measures).
Just by its title, the "Mobility" Partnership holds the premise of offering greater mobility perspectives to the nationals of the participating third countries.
These conditions reflect the nature of constructivist research which holds the premise that individuals are experts on their own experiences, and that evidence is derived from first-person reports of life experiences [ 8, 11, 13, 15].
The group, DOJ Pride, said the department refused to let it hold the event on the premises, then relented but said the group would be charged $1,035.
According to at least one well-known logic classical logic the relation of logical consequence does indeed hold between the premises and conclusion of the translated argument, making the original argument valid.
Already, they are refusing to hold the event on their premises, citing the potential threat to students.
In both these sorts of demonstration, Grosseteste holds, the major premise and conclusion are per se in the second way, that is, the subject is somehow presupposed in their predicates.
When we launched the Youth Development Hub in partnership with the Fox Family, we started from the premise that youth hold the vision for our collective future.
