Sentence examples for premise does not from inspiring English sources

One leaves having learned only that an intriguing premise does not guarantee an enlightening evening of theater.

Instead, they went nuclear, debate-style, rejecting the education system altogether: Even if higher education in prisons is ethical, Mr. Posas argued, that premise "does not address the basis for true equality within our society that is structured by complex and hierarchal racist, classist and gendered norms that produce the prison-industrial complex".

But this universal ethical premise does not prevent religious Americans (especially on the right) from badgering atheists about goodness without God — even though it would correctly be seen as rude for an atheist to ask her religious neighbors how they can be good with God.

Notice that the premise does not imply that one must act in accordance with the motivation felt.

Because the number 2 does not appear in the subscript on the conclusion, the second "premise" does not really count as a premise.

In the terminology of Montague, find creates an extensional context in which truth of the premise entails truth of the conclusion, while seek creates an intensional context in which truth of the premise does not.

The show's premise doesn't help.

First, the premise doesn't hold water.

A premise doesn't have to be original to be successful, but there should be some flair to the scripts or the characters.

"Basic premise doesn't work," Dr. Michael Rosenbaum, a professor of pediatrics and clinical medicine at Columbia, said in an e-mail to Ms. Nonas on Aug. 18, 2009.

But the premise doesn't even make sense in this instance, since one of the two people has to be intentionally mimicking the other's movements and expressions.