For years we unknew that all children would not test proficient by 2014 and that a policy premised on that goal would mean that all schools would end up labeled failures.
Policies premised on assimilation gave way in the 1970s to the goal of creating a multicultural society, and cultural diversity or at least areas of ethnic concentration came increasingly to characterize areas of Sydney, where the majority of immigrants settled.
"If their policy is premised on not going it alone, even in response to chemical weapons," said Brian Katulis, a Middle East expert at the Center for American Progress, "you're going to need a lot of people reading from the same song sheet".
I have been writing intermittently for years about the dangers of China's long-term foreign policy aims, premised as they are on its totalitarian domestic attitudes, feeling like a Cassandra the while.
It's a country where nearly 60percentt of the population support a policy approach premised on the idea that "a good criminal is a dead criminal" and where nearly half of citizens are OK with police torture.
Public debate and policy change premised on SHS being a health risk to non-smokers did not commence until the 1980s.
Ghana's free maternal healthcare policy is premised on the notion that financial barriers are one of the most important causes of low and inequitable access to, and use of skilled maternity care services [ 12].
These results suggest an exogenous, preventable acquisition of P. aeruginosa, which should stimulate research on policies of premises decontamination and their impact on P. aeruginosa acquisition.
Then, the hotel we stayed at, Hacienda Encantada Resort & Spa, also had signs up around the resort about its "no cash for purchases on the premises" policy.
Yet energy policy is still premised on the notion that coal and oil must be used for most needs, while carbon-neutral green energy from the sun, wind and biofuel is the main alternative.
