Sentence examples for incorrect premise from inspiring English sources

The smoke-obsessed board of an Upper West Side co-op seems to be working from an incorrect premise.

But this, I think, works from an incorrect premise: that there is only one sort of child reader.

Experts indeed acknowledge a "ground effect," which increases the wings' lift and thus makes flight somewhat more efficient near the surface; that was not an incorrect premise of Lindbergh's era.

The pioneering Greenwich Village frozen-food store, Penguin Food, was founded on the fatally incorrect premise that people would go to a separate store to buy the new wonder of frozen goods.

Janusz Marszalek, the developer, said the ministry had ordered the provincial governor, Ryszard Maslowski, to reconsider his decision blocking the project, saying it had been based on the incorrect premise that a snack bar, shops and a parking lot already on the camp site would remain.

I received an e-mail reply in less than a day with the news that AreYouGame.com had found Mystery Date, but the price, $100, reminded me that this was one game with a cult following that also had a politically incorrect premise: the winner is the player who amasses the appropriate color-coordinated clothing and accessories before her boyfriend arrives to take her to the prom.

A democracy cannot and should not go to war under false or incorrect premises".

Not only do they originate from incorrect premises, but they generally do not take into account the negative effects it generates for workers and consumers both domestically and across the world.

If Pepper meant to say that Yale had to agree to the $8.5 million departure pay-out to keep Levin from leaving Yale, and it was necessary to the University's well-being for Levin to remain Yale's president for an additional decade, Pepper's justification is based on incorrect premises.

Overall, the issue does not seem to be a lack of logic (Greene 1990; Settlage 1994), but a combination of incorrect underlying premises about mechanisms and deep-seated cognitive biases that influence interpretations.

No, Scott, what hurts the troops the most is when the war they are fighting is founded on a bunch of incorrect, distinctly flawed premises.