The word 'premise' is correct and usable in written English. It is a noun that means a statement or idea that is used as a basis for an argument or an action. You can use it when introducing an idea or when referring to the basis of a particular argument or action. For example: The premise behind my argument is that taxes should be lowered to stimulate economic growth.
The premise is simple.
The first, based on the premise of retaining yes and no as response options, is the format currently in the referendum bill.
As Maggie O'Farrell put it in her Guardian review: "The stories wrap themselves around the wholly disconcerting premise that catastrophes can rear up in anyone's life without warning".
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"In addition, the executing officer or a person assisting is empowered to leave a warrant premise temporarily and subsequently re-enter to continue the execution of the warrant in certain instances where, for example, the occupier returns home and the covert nature of the warrant is at risk.
The premise of the show is that Adam West plays an out-of work actor who used to be a cop on television.
With polls suggesting that a guiding premise of Obama's foreign policy – "Don't do stupid shit" – fell out of favour with the American public almost two years ago, the questions 19 months from Election Day start at Foggy Bottom and spread across the globe: how far might candidate Clinton go to distance herself from secretary Clinton?
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