Sentence examples for premise posed from inspiring English sources

"The Watermelon Seed," by Greg Pizzoli, has a juicy premise posed as a question: "Have you ever swallowed a seed?" The fear of swallowing something you're not supposed to has a rich tradition in children's song and literature (flies, bubblegum) and in real life.

Still, the premise poses a few problems.

Such were the premises posed by the choreographer Claire Porter at the Ailey Citigroup Theater on Wednesday night as part of the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival.

"EMC has concluded that concealed handguns on school premises pose a heightened liability risk," the company wrote in a letter in 2013.

Given that premise, we posed the question: Which of these predominates in humans?

Most Christian mystic-poets, from Dante to George Herbert, have accepted unworldliness as at least a poetic premise, or pose: our community of believers in here, your bad world out there.

In theory, these types of premises may pose the greatest risk for disease transmission due to large numbers of horses at the same site owned and cared for by different people.

His first picture as director, The Major and the Minor (1942), was a comedy with the daring premise of Ginger Rogers posing as a child to get a reduced railway ticket and becoming the toast of the schoolboys at a military academy and the Lolita-like object of desire for the academy's senior officer, Ray Milland.

The basic premise for the instrument development posed by the authors is that teachers' beliefs about the nature of science and of the teaching and learning of science serve as a filter for, and thus strongly influence how they enact, reform-based curricula in their classrooms.

"I don't think the premise is accurate," Mayor Bronin said when I posed the question of whether Hartford's use of technology was related to its racial makeup, noting community involvement in the decision to purchase the technology.

These premises were in a truly appalling state and posed an unacceptable danger to public health.