Sentence examples for the initial premise from inspiring English sources

The initial premise concerned a plot to assassinate Slansky.

The continuing franchise has squeezed the initial premise dry.

I start from the initial premise, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

My problem, and I suspect Don's, with this is that the initial premise is just not true.

Once you accepted the initial premise — in this case, that the market was too conservative in evaluating risk — there was no limit to what you could do.

'The initial premise for the book was Edgar Allen Poe's short stories,' says Chuck, acknowledging an influence that few have picked up on.

Poor test scores are the initial premises in most current arguments for educational reform.

But we can describe a risky thought process as one in which a thinker who accepts certain propositions perhaps tentatively or hypothetically comes to accept, on that basis, a proposition that does not follow from the initial premises.

In the current instance, the essay's constraining initial premise is that the speed limits being so widely ignored are rational and necessary.

The film's initial premise is quite engaging and interestingly mysterious.

It's too bad, because the book's initial premise is exciting.