Sentence examples for premise questions from inspiring English sources

Luke Holland Giles Coren hosts a new gameshow with a simple premise: questions are propelled at a contestant until three consecutive answers prove incorrect, at which point they're replaced.

From such a viewpoint, how beautiful to see fundamental mechanisms of the American political life suddenly in motion, basic premises questioned, the strutting actors on our political stage obliged to inspect and defend their usual ways of doing and saying things.

He would attack the premise of questions...and this made the president's supporters stand up and cheer.

Lynch called that premise into question.

No police on the premises, no questions asked and no more than 10 people in the lobby at a time.

Whether or not one accepts the cost-shift premise, the question arises of whether price discrimination in health care has served the United States well.

But Ramzi Kassem, a City University of New York law professor who is helping represent the detainees, said the letter from Mr. Karzai's chief of staff called that premise into question.

The premise behind Question Box is that many barriers keep most of the developing world from taking advantage of the wealth of knowledge available through Web search engines, said Rose Shuman, the service's creator.

The success of their strategy depends on the plausibility of the original entailment intuitions turning on our implicitly assuming the additional premise in question.

But a lifetime of tossing and turning leads to a basic, premise-undermining question: Since when does watching someone else sleep make a person sleepy?

At all times, he was concerned to ensure that he understood the precise question, and the precise premise underlying the question which he was being asked.