Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

The successful show enjoyed a five-year run, and functioned as a curtain-raiser for The Carol Burnett Show, remembered today for its abrupt season-to-season changes in casting and premise.

The original premise was for the couple to portray Lucy and Larry Lopez, a successful show business couple whose glamorous careers interfered with their efforts to maintain a normal marriage.

* Episode 114 of the Howie Mandel show Howie Do It repeated the experiment with a single pair of subjects using the premise of a Japanese game show.

The premise of the show would feature contestants in a " physically demanding competition with multiple rounds of elimination set in an indoor obstacle course.

To show that it is plausible, subsequent versions tend to expand on this premise, such as this modern example:

The show featured a very similar premise to the show Ground Force, in which a team of gardeners employed by the show descend on a supposedly worthy individual's place and improve the garden for the cameras within a specified time limit.

He attempts to show readers how to perceive reality outside their own experience and embrace such paradoxical questions by rejecting the premise — a strategy also called " unasking ".

The band name was a continuation of the regional premise of the TV show.

The initial premise of the show was to present viewers with a " slice of life " from the goings-on and happenings of the life of Ellie Riggs, a Southern California jazz singer.

Technicians use these surveys to help determine whether a trend will continue or if a reversal could develop ; they are most likely to anticipate a change when the surveys report extreme investor sentiment Surveys that show overwhelming bullishness, for example, are evidence that an uptrend may reverse ; the premise being that if most investors are bullish they have already bought the market ( anticipating higher prices ).

Oppenheimer, Pugh, and Davis began fine-tuning the premise of the show and writing the series ' first scripts.

The basic premise of the show is that " SCTV " is an independent television station in the city of Melonville.

The core premise of the show allowed for tremendous variety in presentation, but unlike Monty Python, which often would cut from one sketch to another without any resolution, the SCTV format required television style bridges.

As Rob, Buddy, and Sally write for a comedy show, the premise provides a built-in forum for them to be making jokes constantly.

In 1973, the Kroffts successfully sued McDonald's, arguing that the entire McDonaldland premise was essentially a ripoff of their television show.

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.

The theme song and opening sequence set the premise of the show.

The show acknowledged this attempt to restore its original premise, with the third season's hour-long opener titled Putting The Ork Back in Mork.

The show changed premise in seasons six and seven, when Delta Burke's character of Suzanne moved to Japan and sold her part of the design business to her wealthy cousin Allison Sugarbaker ( Julia Duffy ).

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

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

The possibility, as he asserted, that the Russians may get ahead of us or come closer to us because of their tests does not supply the needed ethical premise -- unless, of course, we have unwittingly become so brutalized that nuclear superiority is now taken as a moral demand.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

An axiom is a premise or starting point of reasoning.

As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy.

Here the premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

Bidding is based on the premise that the lowest contract available to bidders starts with the proposition to take seven tricks, i. e. one cannot contract to make less than seven tricks.

The return from exile is the theological premise of prophet's visions in chapters 1-6.

Unlike similar constructed languages like aUI, Blissymbolics was conceived as a purely visual, speech-less language, on the premise that “ interlinguistic communication is mainly carried on by reading and writing ”.

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

The premise of mainstream cognitive behavioral therapy is that changing maladaptive thinking leads to change in affect and in behavior but recent variants emphasize changes in one's relationship to maladaptive thinking rather than changes in thinking itself.

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

Secondly, the premise of causality has been arrived at via a posteriori ( inductive ) reasoning, which is dependent on experience.

This is rather different to the modern version known in Wicca, though they have the same premise, that of the rules given by a great Mother Goddess to her faithful.

Even though the three processes mentioned above proved to be equivalent, the fundamental premise behind the thesis — the notion of what it means for a function to be effectively calculable — is " a somewhat vague intuitive one ".

" The contention is that this is a syllogistic inference, for it appears to require the extra premise: " Whatever has the property of thinking, exists ", a premise Descartes did not justify.

In fact, he conceded that there would indeed be an extra premise needed, but denied that the cogito is a syllogism ( see below ).

His instruction was based on the premise that Buddhist ideology is eternal, and that Buddha would send emanations to complete the missions he had initiated.

The fundamental premise in all instances is the same: a phantasmal, spectral group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting, with horses and hounds in mad pursuit across the skies or along the ground, or just above it.

In 1908, Lewis Boss reported almost 25 years of observations to support this premise, arguing for the existence of a co-moving group of stars that he called the Taurus Stream ( now generally known as the Hyades Stream or Hyades Supercluster ).

In addition, some authors depart from the premise of a mother-child dyad as the core of a human group where the grandmother was the central ancestress with her children and grandchildren clustered around her in an extended family.

All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of our galaxy, a human civilization lives on a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol.

About this time a small group of protesters began to oppose the project on the premise sewers in Kildeer would promote and accelerate development in and around the village.

Hanstead House was for many years a training centre for HSBC but closed officially on 23 December 2011, on the premise that future training needs for the group will be accommodated in other venues.

The history of group dynamics ( or group processes ) has a consistent, underlying premise: ' the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The basic premise of most Dragon Quest titles is to play a hero who is out to save the land from peril at the hands of a powerful evil enemy, with the hero usually accompanied by a group of party members.

A peer group is a primary group of people, typically informal, who share a similar or equal status and who are usually of roughly the same age, tended to travel around and interact within the social aggregate Members of a particular peer group often have similar interests and backgrounds, bonded by the premise of sameness.

The phrase is intended to set forth the four marks, or identifying signs, of the Christian Church — unity, holiness, universality, and apostolicity — and is based on the premise that all true Christians form a single united group founded by the apostles.

Simple induction proceeds from a premise about a sample group to a conclusion about another individual.

Mitsurugi Hanagata, the effeminate gay acquaintance who has a crush on Otaru and whose reckless driving more or less sets the premise of the show, also bands together with the group on their travels and as their neighbor when his mansion is burned down.

The premise of the film is stated by a group of four writers conversing over dinner at the beginning of the film.

The fundamental premise of the hunt is usually the same, a group of phantasmal huntsmen in mad pursuit across the skies.

The premise of the series is that Buffy is a Slayer, a young girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight evil, which she accomplishes with the help of a small group of friends and family, called the Scooby Gang.

Written and directed by Amando de Ossorio, the premise of the movie is that a group of African explorers run afoul of a native cult.

The associated reductive Lie groups are of significant interest: the Langlands program is based on the premise that what is done for one reductive Lie group should be done for all.

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.

Having a similar premise to the 1980s American film RoboCop and the 1970s tokusatsu Robot Detective, Jiban is a rookie cop gunned down and reborn as a fighting machine against the Criminal Syndicate Bioron, a group of bio-genetic freaks.

The neomodern artist group was founded in 1997 by Guy Denning on the premise that the diversity of contemporary art was being stifled by the state supported art institutions and organisations.

Basic features of the group will be the radical independence and the attempt to create a single nationalist front, as a collaborative effort of all in that goal-independence nationalists on the premise of collaborating with anti parties Spaniards.