Sentence examples for premise of lay from inspiring English sources

Students of jury behavior, for example, question Daubert's underlying premise of lay incompetence (Vidmar 1995), which provided much of the justification for a threshold screening by judges to keep "junk science" out of the courtroom (Huber 1991).

Their premise is that the most important source of power for addressing many problems facing families and communities is the untapped energy and talent of lay citizens.

This prior premise turns on his definition of lying as one's assertion of what one believes to be false.

— The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge The whole premise of secrets and lies is so vivid and vibrant in Hardinge's novel.

The proportion of empty shops in Britain is climbing – 10.1% of premises lie vacant, according to an August report from the British Retail Consortium and Springboard.

For there is a pattern here: of lying and then quietly recanting some of the lies, a pattern that reinforces ignorance and prejudice by working on the premise that the lie, if repeated often enough, will be remembered while the single recantation will be forgotten or ignored.

Document instances of lying.

In the process of explaining precisely why it is that we have "all the stuff", Diamond brilliantly exposed the suppressed racist premise that lies behind all sorts of Weird thinking: that we are somehow smarter and more able than the losers in the world economy.

Critics see a problem with this formulation in premise 8. Whereas behind premise 1 lies the ancient Parmenidean contention that out of nothing nothing comes, it is alleged that no principle directly connects finitude with causation.

At the nucleus of this advert's premise lies a troubling question that should haunt us all: just what, exactly, is Ryan Reynolds running from?

The premise of this work was to lay the foundation for different blade geometries and to understand the pressure and stress distribution as well as rigidity of geometries.