With the conception of hybridized atomic orbitals by John C. Slater and Linus Pauling, which rationalized observed molecular geometries, the method was based on the premise that the bonds in any molecule could be described in a manner similar to the bond in H < sub > 2 </ sub >, namely, as overlapping atomic orbitals centered on the atoms involved.

The director pitched the premise of two investment partners getting involved in questionable financial dealings, using each other, and they are tailed by a prosecutor as in Crime and Punishment.

The show's premise involved Doodles dealing with an assignment to stage a no-budget television series using only the discarded costumes, sets, and props left behind by more popular network TV shows away for the summer.

The premise involved Wario's decision to open a game development company to make money, creating short " microgames " as opposed to full-fledged games.

TQM functions on the premise that the quality of products and processes is the responsibility of everyone who is involved with the creation or consumption of the products or services offered by an organization.

The premise here is that employees are involved in understanding organizational purpose and determining production needs.

Notable for running a molly house, an inn or tavern primarily frequented by homosexual men, she was also heavily involved in the ensuing legal battles after her premise was raided and shut down.

A third premise, " Bandi ", involved a small being running about the Enterprise as someone's pet, and which empathically sways the crew's feelings and emotions to comfort Bandi, and if necessary at someone else's expense.

There are other options available as alternatives to the Work for the Dole scheme, such as undertaking part-time work or study and training, the basic premise of the Employment Pathway Plan being to keep the welfare recipient active and involved in seeking full-time work.

The original premise involved the Enterprise and the USS Starseeker approaching an alien lifeform captured by a race called the Annoi and turned into a weapon.

The premise of the six-episode series involved 16 contestants trying to win $ 1 million by participating in various contests, with their performances being judged by Cuban.

Riding the tide of the camp superhero craze of the 1960s, the show's premise involved police chemist Carter Nash ( William Daniels ), a mild-mannered mama's boy who discovered a secret formula that, when taken, transformed him into Captain Nice.

Its premise involved surprising members of the public with long-held wishes, setting up tricks to fool members of the public, prank phone calls to people and reuniting guests with long-lost loved ones.

" Animation historian Jerry Beck described the film as being " for adults and Bakshi completists only ," writing that the film " has a great premise, a great cast, and the best animation he's ever been involved with ," but critiquing it as a " pointless rehash of many of Ralph's favorite themes, and the story literally goes nowhere.

He said that such a premise would have involved deceiving thousands of expertly trained NASA employees, including himself, and that he saw no such evidence of this during his work on the Apollo program or his 20 year directorship of NASA's Goddard Institute.

The premise involved 16 contestants vying to win US $ 1 million from billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

Riding the tide of the camp superhero craze of the 1960s, the show's premise involved police chemist Carter Nash, a mild-mannered mama's boy who discovered a secret formula that, when taken, transformed him into Captain Nice.

Riding the tide of the camp superhero craze of the 1960s, the show's premise involved gas station attendant Stanley Beamish, a mild-mannered scrawny youth who secretly worked to fight crime for a government organization, The Bureau of Secret Projects, in Washington.

You see, the point is they've got nothing to do and the prospect of holding a straight job is so dreary that they join ' the movement ' and start hitting up people for money to live, on the premise that they're involved in critical social change blah blah blah.

The show's premise involved questions asked about celebrity couples ' personal lives.

The premise involved a gay man and his relationship with a single mother and her five year-old daughter whom he invites to live with him.

The show's premise involved a professional football quarterback named Ed Huddles ( voiced by Cliff Norton ) and his neighbor, the team's center Bubba McCoy ( voiced by Mel Blanc ).

It was titled Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle, and its premise involved an unethical lawyer / private detective and his bungling assistant.

The premise involved an ageing rocker ( Jon English ) trying to maintain his music career while living with his son and daughter.

: Made in 1974, Carry On Dick, of the celebrated Carry On series of films, followed the same premise of a country vicar ( Sid James ) who is secretly an outlaw, in this case the highwayman Dick Turpin.

These theories work from the central premise that effective learners are active agents who construct knowledge by setting goals, analyzing tasks, planning strategies and monitoring their understanding.

* James Gurney's Dinotopia: Land Apart from Time is based on the premise that it is the diary of Arthur Dennison, who gets shipwrecked on the island of Dinotopia.

The premise of the sketch is that the joke is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter.

On the basis of this premise, he is the person who from 1245 to 1250 became known as Pedro Hispano ( because he came from Hispania, the Iberian Peninsula ), and taught medicine at the University of Siena.

He supported his premise by showing that their marriages, in which husband was the head, were arranged according to the rules of good management: those who are in command ( quae principantur ) in their society were always singular, while subordinates ( subiecta ) were multiple.

Astronomical models of the universe were proposed soon after astronomy began with the Babylonian astronomers, who viewed the universe as a flat disk floating in the ocean, and this forms the premise for early Greek maps like those of Anaximander and Hecataeus of Miletus.

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.

In April 2004, the premise of the film was described as having Hasselhoff reprise his role as Michael Knight, though he would be an elder statesman who would serve as a mentor to the protagonist in the same way that Devon Miles mentored Knight in the TV series.

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.

It uses the premise of a murderous carnival game to produce a revue-style portrayal of men and women who attempted ( successfully or otherwise ) to assassinate Presidents of the United States.

" He faulted Metropolis for its premise that automation created drudgery rather than relieving it, wondered who was buying the machines ' output if not the workers, and found parts of the story derivative of Shelley's Frankenstein, Karel Čapek's robot stories, and his own The Sleeper Awakes.

Race had already been established as a premise for exclusion among the colonial parliaments, so the main question for debate was who exactly the new Commonwealth ought to exclude, with the Labor Party rejecting Britain's calls to placate the populations of its non-white colonies and allow " aboriginal natives of Asia, Africa, or the islands thereof ".

Its central premise is that ideas do not develop in isolation from the people who create and use them and that one must study ideas not as abstract propositions but in terms of the culture, lives and historical contexts that produced them.

A polymath who had jumped from project to project without settling on a thesis topic, he found the premise behind BackRub fascinating.

The example's first premise is false – there are people who eat steak and are not quarterbacks – but the conclusion must be true, so long as the premises are true ( i. e. it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false ).

This seemed to support literary critics like Van Wyck Brooks and Vernon Parrington who had condemned James's expatriation and criticised his work as effeminate and deracinated ; Leon Edel used it as the premise of his influential biography which held the field for many years.

The show's premise is based on the fictional Seaver family, who reside at 15 Robin Hood Lane in Huntington, Long Island, New York, Dr. Jason Seaver ( Alan Thicke ), a psychiatrist, works from home because his wife, Maggie ( Joanna Kerns ), has gone back to work as a reporter.

The film's premise features a band of pre-teens who live in the " Goon Docks " neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon attempting to save their homes from demolition, and in doing so, discover an old Spanish map that leads them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willie, a legendary 17th-century pirate.

" 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.

because the first one is that of logic … and as I cannot object to the premise " that all people have the right to eat ", I must defer to all the conclusions …. The second of the two compelling voices, of which I am talking, is even more powerful than the first, because it is the voice of hatred, the hatred I dedicate to this common enemy that constitutes the most distinctive contrast to communism and that will oppose the angry giant already at the first instance – I am talking about the party of the so-called advocates of nationality in Germany, about those false patriots whose love for the fatherland only exists in the shape of imbecile distaste of foreign countries and neighbouring peoples and who daily pour their bile especially on France ".

The pre-1935 U. S. territorial administration, or Insular Government, was headed by a governor general who was appointed by the president of the U. S. In December 1932, the U. S. Congress passed the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act with the premise of granting Filipinos independence.

The main premise deals with the obsessive relationship between two teenage girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, who murder Parker's mother.

Peckinpah has been criticized by fans of the show, who argue that his involvement caused the show to " jump the shark ", despite new executive producer Marc Scott Zicree's decision to restore Tracy Tormé's original " alternate history " premise for the series in season 4.