Sentence examples for predicated on something from inspiring English sources

Creative writing teaching is predicated on something like that model.

A legally binding commitment predicated on something as wildly unpredictable as economic performance –  "in normal times" forsooth; when are times ever normal?

QUESTION FROM GREGORY: Are you familiar with John Bradshaw's argument in his book Dog Sense that the notion that dogs are descendants of wolves is incorrect and thus our entire notion of how to train and react to dogs in terms of their behavior is predicated on something that is not scientific (the idea of pack mentality, the idea of dominance)?

(And if it's going to be predicated on something else, such as paid services, then those products will need to be built, too).

But philosophy, which values reason first and foremost, is led to the unpleasant truth that it is in fact predicated on something that is and remains unevident: that the human question for knowledge is the right life.

M. Stanton Evans, a colleague of Chambers and Buckley also cited in Bogus' book, weighed in on the explicitly anti-Christian message of Ayn Rand's version of these premises, appealing to Christian faith as a belief system "predicated on something more than mere survival".

Gardner's game is predicated on speed, something the Yankees do not have, so that makes him distinctive.

I think like, intimacy is predicated on telling somebody something that you wouldn't tell anyone else or that you haven't told anyone else.

But they are all predicated on one thing — speed.

"Muslim bans" are last-ditch efforts at self-preservation under the guise of protection, and there is a type of protection being offered here … but it's one that is predicated on the fear of something that doesn't exist (i.e., lack of proper vetting) or of losing something that will have little consequence in reality (i.e., the concept of "a Christian nation").

"My teaching philosophy has always been predicated on catching students doing something right," he told the magazine The Brass Herald in 2013.