Mr. De Palma's premise, implicit in his choice of title and stated in many interviews and public pronouncements, is that the truth about Iraq has been edited and obscured, kept away from the American public.
That was the explicit premise; the implicit part, gradually to become clear to the audience, was that flies have infested not only this particular dwelling but the world at large, and that their presence is a symptom of climate change.
It may, for example, assign the argument the implicit premise that "The French have the same attitude to their appearance that I have witnessed in the many French I have met in the course of my work there".
Relying on the sheet music exposes a generational bias, too — implicit in the premise of the case is that Mr. Gaye's version of songwriting is somehow more serious than what Mr. Williams does, since it is the one that the law is designed to protect.
As a result of our analysis, we found that arguments in the selected papers rely on two types of premises: openly stated premises, and implicit, unstated premises.
"Oh, I like you," she says, the consolation of it undercut by her implicit acceptance of the premise.
One might fill out this analysis by noting that the move from the premise to the conclusion depends on an implicit premise/assumption which we might summarize as the proposition that "A life of cosmopolitan excitement is highly desirable".
The principles of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) are based on the premise that the properties of a chemical are implicit in its molecular structure.
The FDA's position — and the implicit premise of the relevant Tobacco Act provisions — is that producers must be barred from making statements that might mislead consumers.
Implicit in this constitutional safeguard is the premise that the law must be one that carries an understandable meaning with legal standards that courts must enforce.
