Sentence examples for incorrect premises from inspiring English sources
A democracy cannot and should not go to war under false or incorrect premises".
So it has been no surprise to me that the media coverage of Madeleine McCann's disappearance has been clouded by confusion, ignorance and speculation based on incorrect premises.
LLES wrote that Michelet's writings held "a series of magnificently right conclusions drawn from frequently incorrect premises". (See LLES's introduction in Box 21).
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.
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.
University presidents have bought into an incorrect premise, espoused by thinkers like Fareed Zakaria and Kishore Mahbubani, that countries that liberalize economically will also liberalize politically.
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.
