"premise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But an implicit premise is that only worthless things are given away freely.
- His implicit premise is that the present is ordained by the past.
- The altruist-collectivist premise, implicit in that question, is that men are "their brothers' keepers" and that the misfortune of some is a mortgage on others.
- Mrs. Clinton's implicit premise is that Federal subsidies can offset Federal regulation.
- News reporting conforms to the same implicit premises.
- The implicit premise of the book was that the change was permanent: that the Organization Man and all he represented would henceforth define the American character.
- It's the implicit premise of all those "reality" shows on television, which can transform a corpulent corporate consultant into a People cover boy.
- Had the authors stuck with this theme - and explained it quickly - this could have been a helpful book, because their implicit premises are correct.
- First, there is an implicit premise that the very fact of there being an international dimension to some policy area of itself justifies a common European approach.
- Second, there's an implicit premise that if the FCC were to look at the future of the media, that would represent a dramatic new role for the government.
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