The word 'premised' is correct and usable in written English.
It means to state or assume something as the basis of an argument or action. It can be used in formal or technical writing, particularly in legal or philosophical contexts. Example: "The court's decision was premised on the defendant's lack of intent to harm the victim."
Every now and again, a league premised on a gimmick pops up – like the WWE-backed eXtreme Football League, or the way ahead of its time trampoline-and-basketball hybrid Slamball – but there hasn't been a competitor big enough or rich enough to put into question which league boasts the best talent in the world.
Or is there something about Velma's style of explanation that doesn't fully address the continual anxiety on which the series is premised?
But a second would raise them less than 6% - 8000 beds - and a third, premised upon a huge expansion of community health and social care services, would mean a further cut of almost 9% - 12,000 beds.
I think that's because they've failed to realise that this acceleration of debt and credit and the ability to actually service that debt has been premised on this abundant availability of cheap fossil fuels.
Many agents were hired in a frenzy of optimism by the world's most famous insurance firms, which piled into the country, taking minority stakes in joint ventures with local partners (often India's big industrial conglomerates), as the rules require.These firms' strategy was premised on one, beguiling fact.
He writes that in 2009 the court concluded that its initial decision to authorise the phone-record collection "had been premised on a flawed depiction of how the NSA uses [the acquired] metadata…buttressed by repeated inaccurate statements made in the government's submissions".
Here, for example, is Mr Kennedy, writing for the majority:Premised on mistrust of governmental power, the First Amendment stands against attempts to disfavor certain subjects or viewpoints.
This optimism is partly premised on growth Barclays seems to assume investment-banking profits can rise by a quarter from 2010 levels within a few years.
Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinions in Lawrence v Texas and United States v Windsor, two gay-rights cases, were premised on respecting homosexuals' "dignity as free persons".
They may at least take consolation in the fact that their objections are premised on falsehoods.
And alienating industry carries few consequences; companies neither vote nor, in recent years, make many of the large political donations on which the Tories used to rely.Mr Cameron's strategy, though, is premised on distancing the party from business without alienating it.
