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Example sentences for: premise

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Buchanan's premise is as a continental nation America has few vital national interests beyond our own shores and still fewer outside our own hemisphere.
So Morris tries to apply the premise to the astonishing turnaround of the 1980s.
The friendship between an honest New York cop (Harrison Ford) and an Irish Republican Army terrorist (Pitt) eschews the "black-and-white formulas" typical of suspense films, says Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty, on the other hand, finds the premise "an astonishingly banal male-bonding motif."
But the (factually correct) premise of Victorian morality was that one person's transgression, if unpunished, invites emulation.
Gattaca 's premise is the creation, in the not-so-distant future, of a genetic elite whose DNA has been rejiggered at the embryo stage to eliminate dispositions to such traits as premature baldness and attention-deficit disorder while heightening cheekbones and IQs.