(n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
(n.) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
(n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
(n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
(n.) To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
(n.) To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
(v. i.) To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
(2) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(3) There are far too many fast-food premises near schools.
(4) Each case must be assessed on its own premises: the substitution need, the availability of a transplant, the long-term prognosis, and the advantages and disadvantages of a solution with autotransplantation versus solutions without autotransplantation.
(5) Neuronal models in temperature regulation are primarily considered explicit statements of assumptions and premises used in design of experiments and development of descriptive equations concerning the relationships between thermal inputs and control actions.
(6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
(7) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(8) The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.
(9) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
(10) If that premise is accepted, there is much that academic institutions can do to foster utilization of their biotechnological discoveries.
(11) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
(12) As a smaller, weaker, standalone company, it would struggle to invest as much as it does currently.” The company said the UK was repeatedly ranked the best for broadband speeds in the EU and claimed 90% of UK premises had access to fibre optic connections.
(13) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(14) The higher-cost practices were those that maintained donors on the premises specifically for blood donation purposes.
(15) This paper concentrates on the applications of the Project used in Health Centres, where General Practitioners share premises with District Nurses, Health Visitors, Social Workers and other members of the Community Health Care Team.
(16) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
(17) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(18) Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy is Ealing's neatest, and its trippiest; the product of lurid new colour stock (including some alarming back-projection ) and a hallucinatory premise.
(19) Further study is needed to verify this latter premise.
(20) Mr Clarke said tonight that the premises will "now be thoroughly searched, and that is a process that will take some time".
Sumption
Definition:
(n.) A taking.
(n.) The major premise of a syllogism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sumption's letter implies that Neuberger did not believe that Witness B was acting alone and that the judge believed that Witness B's conduct was "characteristic of the service as a whole".
(2) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
(3) In Mr Sumption's summary, a senior judge had initially found that there was such a "culture of suppression" within MI5 that it undermined any government assurances on its behalf.
(4) Sumption realised early on that the key to the case was character, and convincing the judge Berezovsky was a wrong 'un.
(5) This debate cannot be resolved here, but possibility of positive discrimination in the appointments process does, as Sumption suggests, deserve an airing, even if (and this is by no means clear) we – like Sumption – end up rejecting it.
(6) But Sumption failed to identify one of the prime causal factors: institutional sexism.
(7) Jonathan Sumption’s views exemplify perfectly what is wrong with the way women in the legal profession are viewed by those in the highest echelons of power.
(8) 11.14am BST Lord Sumption also issued an additional judgment.
(9) Concluding his speech, Sumption commented: "I am not going to suggest that the fabric of society will break down because judges, whether sitting in London, Strasbourg, Washington or anywhere else, make law for which there is no democratic mandate.
(10) Excepting the supreme court justice Lord Sumption, who has deep reservations about the extension of the judge-made law which flows from the extension of judicial review as well as from human rights law, this autumn has seen what amounts to a judicial conversation about the relationship between Strasbourg and the UK courts, the conclusion of which is that the fault lies less with Europe or the Human Rights Act than with our judges themselves.
(11) Lord Sumption looks around at the higher reaches of the bar and believes there are not enough women at the top of the profession who are up to the job of being a senior judge.
(12) One of the judges, Lord Sumption, said Catt regularly took part in demonstrations against the Brighton arms factory, owned by the manufacturer EDO MBM, which police had said were “amongst the most violent in the UK”.
(13) Gideon Sumption of Stacks Property Search, a buying agency, said: "Some people who perhaps retired in their mid- to late-50s and whose children had left home downsized to a smaller house.
(14) In his judgment on the Nicklinson case, Lord Sumption argued that the law is considerably more humane and flexible than many of those who argue for reform appear to recognise.
(15) How much money was Jonathan Sumption QC paid to represent Tony Blair at the Hutton inquiry?
(16) The court was effectively about to rule, Mr Sumption revealed, that MI5 had treated basic rights with contempt and had lied to the parliamentary watchdog which provides its only oversight.
(17) Delivering the Kuttan Menon memorial lecture, Hale agreed with many of the conclusions reached on improving judicial diversity by another supreme court justice, Lord Sumption, last year.
(18) In a sustained broadside, Lord Sumption, a UK supreme court justice, raised fundamental questions about the court – which has issued landmark but controversial judgements against the UK on the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland and on the right of prisoners to vote.
(19) Adopting an unfashionable argument, Sumption also asserted that politicians are far better than judges at reaching compromises over competing interests.
(20) Since losing in the high court, David Millband has instructed one of the country's most expensive advocates, Jonathan Sumption QC, to represent his position.