Delingpole's scepticism has to be premised on the bad faith of his opponents.
But, at this point, any contested Convention would have to be premised on a gimmick a rule change, for example—or a true upheaval in the Party.
As Lee (1999) aptly puts it, the Singapore education system appears to be premised upon 'education for earning, not learning'.
Efforts to better support and sustain educators and the workforce therefore need to be premised on attracting and retaining adequate numbers of appropriately qualified and capable educators.
In fact, trust-research "appears to be premised on the general idea that actors (ie, individuals, groups or organizations) become, in some ways, vulnerable to one another as they interact in social situations, relationships and systems" (Bigley and Pearce 1998).
Planning needed to be premised on a team approach that included family physicians throughout the district: "(Family medicine) is not going to work unless there is visible evidence that there's a proper caring structure at the district level….
The World Health Organization recommends a public health strategy for palliative care development [ 3], with key foundation measures, such as policy and education, needing to be premised on local need and evidence [ 4, 5].
That also happens to be the premise of most sitcoms.
ED: Do you want there to be a premise here or what?
But the past is either boring or incomprehensible: that, at least, would seem to be the premise of Foley and Porter.
Which, don't forget, is supposed to be the premise of this whole thing.
