After the initial episodes that set up the show's premise ( George and Katherine's wedding, Webster's arrival and the resulting adjustments ), most of the plots became exclusively Webster-driven, even though it was the writers ' intention to include story elements that focused on George and Katherine as much as possible.

His pangenesis theory was criticised for its Lamarckian premise that parents could pass on traits acquired in their lifetime.

While parents were critical of the premise due to its inclusion of medicine in a children's game, Dr. Mario and its re-releases received generally favorable reviews.

Midway through the season, the premise changed and Margaret moved into the basement of her parents ' house.

The situation comedy's premise was set around a semi-retired comedian whose grandchildren were orphaned after their parents were killed in a car accident.

The show's central premise is that Sanjeev's parents have supported his dream of being a TV presenter by having a TV studio built on what used to be their back garden.

Selling safety to parents and teachers has also been a driving force, as home security systems, cellphones, and computer surveillance usage is marketed to parents ; and x-ray machines, metal detectors and closed-circuit television are increasingly sold to schools on the premise that young people are not to be trusted.

The two sets of parents have different ideas of how their children should live their lives, and the constant meddling of the mothers-in-law provides the premise for the series.

Four of the five novels share a similar premise: Henry, the son of an American diplomat, lives abroad with his parents.

The philosophy upon which A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice is written is stated in the foreword: " The premise on which Torah is based is that all aspects of life-leisure no less than business, worship or rites of passage ( birth, bar mitzvah, marriage, divorce, death )-are part of the covenant and mandate under which every Jew is to serve God in everything he does.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the novel is the premise that the " despicable " gossip spread by Hamilton which led to his death by Burr's bullet was that Burr had practiced incest with his beloved daughter, Theodosia.

The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.

Defendants ' position that it does is based on the faulty premise that the right to sue for wrongful death is an exclusive benefit of marriage.

For example, Catherine Clément and Hélène Cixous in " The Newly Born Woman " ( 1975 ) decry the " dual, hierarchical oppositions " set up by the traditional phallogocentric philosophy of determinateness, wherein " death is always at work " as " the premise of woman's abasement ", woman who has been " colonized " by phallogocentric thinking.

The war was so devastating that it ravaged the planet until it was consumed by death, and the only way to restore Cybertron to its former glory was through the retrieval of the AllSpark, which is the premise from which the film series start and progress to its climax.

The premise of the movie is that a mad scientist ( played by Anitra Ford ) has created an army of beauties who seduce men to death.

The character was used by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O ' Neill in their series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, adapted to film in 2003, based on the premise that he faked his death to enjoy a quiet retirement.

These include Machete, in which the FBI hires a mercenary rather than risk their own agents on a potential suicide mission ; Werewolf Women of the SS about a group of women who run a nazi death camp ; Don't, an exploitive horror film ; Thanksgiving, a slasher film in the genre of the Halloween series ; and Hobo With a Shotgun about a vigilante killer similar to the premise of the film Death Wish.

The film is based on the premise that a killer is using the methods of death described in certain urban legends as a means to kill the victims.

Ella Taylor of the L. A. weekly describes it as " A terrific premise is mangled to a pulp, then beaten to death in this forced mockumentary.

After Simpson's death in 1919, the C & MA distanced itself from Pentecostalism, rejecting the premise that speaking in tongues is a necessary indicator of being filled with the Holy Spirit, and instead focused on the deeper Christian life.

Released in 1994, her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, has a historical premise and elaborates on the death of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

At this point, Kane and Undertaker started a feud with each other, the basic premise being Kane and Paul Bearer accusing Undertaker of intentionally starting a fire which resulted in the burning of their funeral home, the scarring of Kane's face, and the death ( fake ) of Undertaker and Kane's mother.

In keeping with its hard-boiled premise, The Punisher included several events rare in Marvel Comics publisher in the mid-1980s: a suicide, the death of an innocent child, and the main character having intercourse.

Proponents hold that concept begins with the premise that when an unmarried woman becomes pregnant, she has the option of abortion, adoption, or parenthood ; and argues, in the context of legally recognized gender equality, that in the earliest stages of pregnancy the putative ( alleged ) father should have the same human rights to relinquish all future parental rights and financial responsibility — leaving the informed mother with the same three options.

The effort toward national metrication is based on the premise that the U. S. industrial and commercial productivity, mathematics and science education, and the competitiveness of its products and services in world markets would be enhanced by the adoption of the metric system.

For the show's premise, an adult who had been put up for adoption as an infant was placed in a room with 25 men, one of whom was their biological father.

Kierkegaard's argument can be made clearer if one extracts the premise " I think " into two further premises:

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

Marx then extended this premise by asserting the importance of the fact that, in order to carry out production and exchange, people have to enter into very definite social relations, most fundamentally " production relations ".

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

" is uttered, and this premise is negated ( by the fact of a person being murdered ), the speaker is not to change his sentence upon observation of this into: " Kill other people!

Though one may claim that Occam's razor is invalid as a premise helping to regulate theories, putting this doubt into practice would mean doubting whether every step forward will result in locomotion or a nuclear explosion.

1935's Hoi Polloi utilized the Pygmalion premise of a stuffy professor waging a bet that he can transform the uncultured trio into refined gentlemen ; the plotline worked so well that it was reused twice, as Half-Wits Holiday and Pies and Guys.

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.

Other examples are My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss ( modeled after The Apprentice ), My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Hell Date ( modeled after Blind Date ), Superstar USA ( modeled after American Idol ), Space Cadets ( which convinced the hoax targets that they were being flown into space ), Punk'd ( involving celebrities in staged crises ), Invasion Iowa ( in which a town was convinced that William Shatner was filming a movie there ), and Reality Hell ( different target and premise every episode ).

The premise of reality shows has been called into question.

Often the premise ' a ' is only one of many premises that go into proving that ' a ' is true as a conclusion.

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.

Bob made his second major appearance in season three's " Black Widower "; the writers echoed the premise of the Coyote chasing the Road Runner by having Bob unexpectedly insert himself into Bart's life and attempt to kill him.

For season three's " Black Widower ", the writers echoed the premise of Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner from Looney Tunes cartoons by having Bob unexpectedly insert himself into Bart's life and attempt to kill him.

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.

Warren Ellis's comic book series Planetary has a similar premise of fitting many different superhero, science fiction, and fantasy elements into the same universe.

In 1985, writer Alan Moore gave a somewhat darker glimpse into the world of Krypton in his story " For the Man Who Has Everything " ( in Superman Annual # 11 ), the premise being an elaborate dream of Superman's in which Krypton had not exploded and he'd grown to adulthood there.

Nearly always, this translated into a civilizing mission rooted in the premise that ' the barbarians could be culturally assimilated '"; namely laihua 來化 " come and be transformed " or Hanhua 漢化 " become Chinese ; be sinicized.

The next day he would present each premise until Feldstein found one that he thought he could develop into a story.

Lastly, a premise can be converted or obverted to fall into a specific valid case.

The premise of the series is that, in about April 2000, irresponsible aliens ( accidentally ) exchanged a sphere with a radius of about three miles ( 5 km ) centered on Grantville with an equally sized chunk of Thuringia from 1631, plunging the town into the midst of the Thirty Years ' War.

From this premise, it was reasoned that the transmutation of one metal into another could be affected by the rearrangement of its basic qualities.

* The premise for the TV series Now and Again ( 1999 – 2000 ) was the transplantation of lead character Michael Wiseman's brain into a genetically-engineered body to make him into a top-secret super-agent.

With Murder She Wrote debuting on Sunday, September 30, 1984, the producers were able to parlay their " mystery writer / amateur detective " premise into a 12-year hit for CBS.