Sentence examples for the basic premise of a from inspiring English sources

What would Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, so strongly influenced by Dickens, have made with the basic premise of A Christmas Carol?

If you make something new, they usually eat you… The basic premise of a Jurassic Park movie is that dinosaurs chase people and they eat them.

While there have always been pronounced differences about how proactive government should be, few Europeans question the basic premise of a welfare state.

The basic premise of a transaction is that it contains data that is structured and scoped to resolve or respond to a functional request.

Arthur Brisbane: Ms. Zimic's letter exposes an awkward reality underlying the basic premise of a newspaper: that it aspires to truth-telling in its news coverage while selling advertising that aspires to put the best possible face on a service or product.

As Simon Hopkins, the managing director of London's Fortune Asset Management, puts it: "The basic premise of a convertible investment is that it's a safe haven with an equity option.

First of all, you don't need to know much about annuities in general to understand the basic premise of an index annuity.

The basic premise of an unchanged lifetime risk of breast cancer in the absence of overdiagnosis is, however, the same.

2 4 6–8 The basic premise of an ED-based early pregnancy assessment clinic/early pregnancy assessment service (EPAC/EPAS) is to improve timeliness of care delivery and to provide continuity of care to women presenting to the ED who are <20 weeks gestation and have pain and/or vaginal bleeding.

The basic premise of all pension obligation bonds is that a municipality can borrow at a lower rate of interest than the rate its pension fund assumes its assets will earn on average over the long term.

Tommy Schenck, the vice president and general manager of the Fox affiliate WRAZ-TV/Fox 50, said in a statement that the network had provided the management with an advance copy of the program and that "the basic premise of finding a birth parent on a TV game show, with money at stake, does not in my opinion reflect prevailing standards of good taste for our local community".