Sentence examples for premise advanced from inspiring English sources

This collection of original essays confronts the premise, advanced by black intellectuals, that the Obama administration marked the start of a "post-racial" era in the United States.

If you can accept the notion of murder as an art and the serial killer as an artist -- the premise advanced by Joyce Carol Oates, writing as Rosamond Smith, in THE BARRENS (Otto Penzler/Carroll & Graf, $25) -- then it should not seem repellent or even strange that a murderer's savage creations could transform a man's life.

That's the premise advanced in The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough, a great book by Cornell University professor Samuel Bacharach.

Unfiltered and without interlocutor, the premise advanced by Zavarzadeh was terrifying; if we cannot privilege or deprivilege individuated realities as exhibiting greater or less fidelity to the epistemology of real-time human action and interaction, how in any sense can fiction or any of the other literary arts continue to function?

The premise was advanced, but simple.

Both attempts have revolved round the premise that advanced post-modern technology, innovative urban planning, reliance on renewable energy, and emphasis on 'total' reuse can combine to achieve 'zero carbon zero waste' existence.

Worse still is the premise, typically advanced by the fiscal Puritans, that to achieve fiscal austerity (narrower budget deficits), policymakers should raise taxes on the private sector.

In the wake of the state's new concealed carry law being approved earlier this year, a plan that would require all bars and restaurants in Chicago that serve alcohol to post "gun-free zone" signs on their premises was advanced Friday by a City Council committee.

Diplomats meeting here said they were hoping to produce a document early this week that would allow trade ministers from throughout the Americas and the Caribbean to agree on the basic premise of advancing discussions toward creating a Free Trade Area of the Americas by early 2005, enabling them to remain on their original schedule.

Conservative reform plans must reject the liberals' entire premise, and advance a system under which the federal government treats all citizens the same, and requires all non-disabled adults to support themselves and their dependents, accounted over the entire course of their roughly 50-year (18 to 68) working lifetimes.

In proposing one of these alternatives, Jill is not reporting her suppressed premise; she is advancing a premise she is willing to put forward now as what she would — or, perhaps, should — have thought or said then if the question of formal validity had been raised.