The key to Sonic Youth's appeal has always been the way its guitars sound, and "Murray Street" is built on this modest premise.
Lacking the excesses or themes that were often criticized in his other works, it offered only the modest premise of Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo as low-level New Jersey hoods who botch a job, earning the ire of the boss (Harvey Keitel).
However, one might instead appeal to the much more modest premise that if an agent judges that some possible action of hers is morally required then she will be motivated to perform that action unless she is practically irrational.
The year after McLennan became general secretary, the CPGB sold its biggest asset, its substantial headquarters in King Street, Covent Garden, bought in the 1920s with money secretly sent by Lenin, and moved into more modest premises.
AJ Inaki Aizpitarte, the self-taught Serge Gainsbourg-like figurehead of the Parisian bistronomic movement (talented young cooks rebelling against Michelin by serving ambitious food in modest premises) is going to be spending a lot of time on the Eurostar this year.
Even though their website is not official – another, IKhwanweb, claims to be the only official English site and is also based in London – this is not the first time the modest premises of World Media Services have attracted attention.
Cowell (N)'s staff of 15 work out of a modest premises in Maida Vale, and the boss is easily identifiable by his close-cropped black hair and familiar, matter-of-fact vocal delivery – though he appears to wear his trousers at a more conventional height than Cowell (S).
From his modest premises near the confluence of two trout streams, the Lambourn and the Kennet, Mr. Barder, 35, is tapping a market built partly on nostalgia for handmade products and partly on the cachet of a rod that anglers associate with the languorous chalk streams of southern England.
Abacus's beginnings were modest — the original premises, which are now a T-Mobile store, were robbed twice in the first year — but it was a good time to start a bank.
Under the premise of modest requirements for the measurement accuracy of the electrostatic force at the micro/nano scale, this method can replace the energy dissipation method and has a great application potential.
The school was founded 11 years ago by Emilio Battz, a local pastor, and his wife, Ester, who live in a modest home on the premises with their three children.
