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He is often one of the first to leave the premises.

But I have to stand back and question the premise.

And how long have you been in these particular premises?

We will go and see the premises with our own eyes.

Five men were on the premises with her, day and night.

They might not yet even know he'd left the premises.

And for now I will thank you to leave the premises.

His body is still here on the premises, of course.

And really their whole premise is exactly what you were talking about.

Or, even more likely, you have started out on a wrong premise.

I want the lot of you off these premises within five minutes.

Why did she have to take one from these premises?

Then she left the premises and was never heard of again.

They later set up their own company and buy the premises.

The mother house of the order is also on the premises.

In 2003, the school moved to its current premises outside the University.

Especially the question of premises was quite difficult for many years.

Today, the premise is being run by a private company.

Once I got the premise, everything else made sense half a second later.

One of the most important things to think about when you start up in business is your premises.

She could not leave the premises or make phone calls.

The paper said there were three premises for a deal.

The last thing he wanted to do was to test that premise.

Did that mean the other half was on the premises?

Everyone else on the premises has turned up for a meeting.

Once the major premisses have been established the principles fall into place.

The main point, however, is not simply that the premisses are largely matters of choice.

Kant tried to show how they were taken from the three possible major premisses of syllogisms.

The recommendations of the Royal Commission were based upon three premisses.

These key considerations define the most important premisses for the further development of statutory frameworks.

I suspected that he was cheating, that the questions were based on false premisses.

He then provides his responses to each of these premisses, numbered according to the same system (the numbers being utilized throughout the book).

It is in their attitude to agrarian reform that the premisses of liberalism emerge most clearly.

Both seek to argue logically from certain abstract premisses.

Sheep and the I take your premisses themselves Goats.

They do not give commands and they are not premisses from which many or important conclusions follow.

Let us now write out, all together, our two Premisses and our brace of Conclusions.

Why is it of no consequence to us, as Logicians, whether the Premisses are true or false?

But the premisses of action are of two kinds, of the good and of the possible.

Liberal premisses produced divergent theories of empire on different sides of the Atlantic.

Both of these premisses warrant careful examination.

Our programme was, then, to discover some faculty of reasoning about any theme put before us from the most generally accepted premisses that there are.

The premisses of a proof in logic or mathematics entail the conclusions: causes compel their effects.

When models are constructed from such premisses, for example, there is a tendency to view government as a restrictive and even as a repressive agency.

But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses.

In 1952 he attained a degree in philosophy for a dissertation "Truth and its ontological premisses".

Altogether, a most unsatisfactory Pair of Premisses!

Some thinkers, accepting both premisses, viz.

This socialist president that people elected under false premisses (or promises) is quickly bankrupting us by spending money that we do not have.

Madam President, the few words I wish to say on this sensitive issue can be summed up by way of two premisses and three specific proposals.