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.

His basic premise was that the rival economic theories, based on subjective Cartesian thinking, undermined the unity of society present in Thomistic metaphysics ; neither the liberal capitalists nor the communists concerned themselves with public moral philosophy.

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.

In the first season of most series of Big Brother, the house that the housemates had to live in was very basic.

A formal neurological examination runs through a precisely delineated series of tests, beginning with tests for basic sensorimotor reflexes, and culminating with tests for sophisticated use of language.

Like the PDP-1 before it, the PDP-5 inspired a series of newer models based on the same basic design that would go on to be more famous than its parent.

Clarke has stated that each book of the series takes place in its own universe and, apart from its basic concepts, has no consistent relationship with one another.

Common to all games in the Exile series are 2D graphics and basic sound.

While Mike is usually portrayed as simply dumb ( for example, in A Man of His Convictions in series 2 he writes a letter to media commentator Stuart Littlemore full of basic spelling and grammatical errors ) he occasionally surprises his colleagues with his sneakiness: in Give ' em Enough Rope ( series 2 ) he traps the network owner into admitting to contravening the Broadcasting Act in a live interview, after first getting the owner to publicly commit to allowing him to ask difficult questions without threat to his job.

The Dyson series, the formal solution of an explicitly time-dependent Schrödinger equation by iteration, and the corresponding Dyson time-ordering operator an entity of basic importance in the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, are also named after Dyson.

To this basic plot ( which comes from the Yahwist ) the Priestly source has added a series of covenants dividing history into stages, each with its own distinctive " sign ".

Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms.

The 802. 11 family consists of a series of half-duplex over-the-air modulation techniques that use the same basic protocol.

Some premillennialists, while accepting many of the basic beliefs behind the series, describe problems with specific prophetical teachings in the Left Behind books.

Software development systems for the PDP-8 series began with the most basic front panel entry of raw binary machine code ( booting entry ).

The Philips CD-i 910 is the American version of the CD-i 205, the most basic model in the series.

The combination of high initial cost and lower maintenance cost pushed producers into building these techniques into the basic concept of a series, influencing all the artistic choices.

* In the X-Men series the mutant Gambit incorporates Savate into his basic fighting style and is shown to be extremely proficient in it.

It has produced various basic statistical series on the territories, dealing with population, employment, wages, external trade, national accounts, and various other topics.

While Roger retains his basic appearance and sustains no lasting damage from his swashbucklings and repeated near-mutilations, his hair begins the series brown and changes to blonde in the upgrade between parts III and IV.

A movie adaptation, Escaflowne: The Movie was released on June 24, 2000, but bears only a basic resemblance to the original series.

Each series is headed by the basic signs composed of a vertical stem descending below the line, and a single bow.

These basic signs represent the voiceless stop consonants for that series.

With such characters helping update the basic concept, the " Sickness and Health " series ran until 1992.

It is often separated from the others as the " alkali " or " soda " rocks, and there is a corresponding series of basic rocks.

The product of the basic full-scale deflection current of the movement, and the sum of the series resistance and the movement's own resistance, gives the full-scale voltage of the range.

Faced with “ past technical deficiencies in telecommunications systems and equipment and software … that were traced to basic inadequacies in the application of telecommunication standards and to the lack of a well defined … program for their review, control and implementation ”, the U. S. Department of Defense looked to develop a series of standards that would alleviate the problem.