The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

The basic premise of the transactional model of communication is that individuals are simultaneously engaging in the sending and receiving of messages.

The basic premise of all of these is that something caused the Universe to exist, and this First Cause must be God.

Several versions exist, though they all have the same basic premise, that of a set of instructions given by the Great Goddess to her worshippers.

Bradbury expanded the basic premise of " Bright Phoenix " into The Fireman, a novella published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

The basic premise was to divide the players into two teams — attackers and defenders — with each side either assaulting or protecting the castle respectively.

In expanding the basic premise and adding comedic elements, scripter Al Feldstein established the setting as Blytheville, Arkansas.

The basic premise of Mage: The Ascension is that everyone has the capacity, at some level, to shape reality.

This system took as its basic premise the assumption that language is a direct reflection of thought processes and therefore there is a single, most natural way to express a thought.

A basic premise of the setting is that as the world endured the string of state-changing events and conflicts, the political landscape fragmented and reformed.

Aside from the basic premise of angels watching humans, with the opening scene also taking place in a landmark library, and a love story, the 1998 film bears little relation to the original.

The basic premise of Confucianism is the idea that human beings are fundamentally good.

Although the form, usually in quarter-hour episodes, proliferated widely in the middle and late 1930s, they all had the same basic premise: that characters " fell into two categories: 1 ) those in trouble and 2 ) those who helped people in trouble.

: The basic premise underlying the Court ’ s ruling is its iteration, and constant reiteration, of the proposition that the First Amendment bars regulatory distinctions based on a speaker ’ s identity, including its “ identity ” as a corporation.

Kenneth Von Gunden's 1990 novel Starspawn takes the same basic premise into a Medieval setting: England in the time of the Third Crusade is secretly invaded by parasites from space who attach themselves to knights and gain control of castles, and whose plot is eventually foiled by a wise and dedicated monk.

No matter what structure the teacher employs, the basic premise of the seminar / circles is to turn partial control and direction of the classroom over to the students.

The basic premise of the Airborne is that they can arrive with such speed that a coherent defence cannot be mounted quickly.

His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody.

The basic premise of Crisis in the Question of Population is to find what social reforms are needed to allow for individual liberty ( especially for women ) while also promoting child-bearing, and encouraging Swedes to have children.

Puerto Rican playwright, Luis Rafael Sánchez published in 1968 La Pasión según Antígona Pérez, taking the basic premise of the play into a contemporary world, where Creon is the dictator of a fictional Latin American nation, and Antígona and her ' brothers ' are dissident freedom fighters.

The basic premise is that Mickey Mouse and his friends run a dinner theater club called the " House of Mouse " in downtown Toontown, which shows Disney cartoons as part of its floor shows.

His work probably defines the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody.

" As told by Serling, the basic premise is similar, but the earlier version seems to have been more comedic in tone, involving a meek schoolteacher who quite unintentionally gains notoriety as a top gunslinger.

") and Hal Gibney describing the basic premise of the episode.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

The basic difficulty, I suppose, was in my ultimate inability to feel a burden of sin from which I sought relief.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

In 1861, Mr. Brown's attention was called to yet another basic production problem -- the manufacture of twist drills.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

This was not a search for a `` magic formula '', but rather an examination of basic principles pertaining especially to all types of communication in marriage.

Swadesh in short was trying to develop a basic list that was universal ; ;

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.

Official reasoning: the bill was a `` wanton invasion of basic property rights ''.

What Gabriel was being asked to do now, however, was to re-examine all his basic assumptions, make value-judgments on them, and give them new and different powers in his mind to govern his motives.

Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable.

This was a basic number to understand, 7 times 13, a close relation conceived between natural phenomena, the underworld and the cycles of the heavens.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.