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 premise of the show is that a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world.

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.

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 ).

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 unstated premise was that the surviving brother would be king.

The British Museum has refused to return these artefacts, stating that the " restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world ".

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.

Work on expert systems ( computer software designed to provide an answer to a problem, or clarify uncertainties where normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted ) typically is grounded on the premise that expertise is based on acquired repertoires of rules and frameworks for decision making which can be elicited as the basis for computer supported judgment and decision-making.

Godwin advocated individualism, proposing that all cooperation in labour be eliminated on the premise that this would be most conducive with the general good.

Then note how the meaning would change if the second premise were parallel to the rest of the syllogism:

Since said premise describes the objects ; red and number, anyone with an adequate understanding of English would notice the falseness of such description and the falseness of said statement.

The original plot and premise of Preacher was spun out of Ennis ' run on Hellblazer, which postulated what would happen if an angel and a demon mated, and the spirit of their offspring ended up in a mortal man.

He'd been trying obliquely to sell a comic book premise to DC or Marvel, but neither company would allow Aragonés to retain the copyright.

He argues that, if God's existence and the existence of evil are to be logically inconsistent, a premise must be provided which, if true, would make them inconsistent ; as none has been provided, the existence of God and evil must be consistent.

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.

It would become a fallacy if one proceeded from the first premise to argue, for example, that drunk driving is immoral or bad for society.

She was given a ballroom studio with the premise that she would sing in the lobby every Saturday.

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.

U. S. President Ronald Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, if it had ever been deployed ( and proven successful ), would have undermined the fundamental premise of mutual assured destruction ( the inevitable outcome of equal and unacceptable destruction for both sides in the event of nuclear war ), removing the incentive for the US not to strike first.

The premise of the argument is that if God existed ( and wanted humanity to know it ), he would have brought about a situation in which every reasonable person believed in him ; however, there are reasonable unbelievers, and therefore, this weighs against God's existence.

In fact, the first premise semantically does not predicate an attribute of the subject, as would for instance the assertion

This premise would differentiate JKD from other " sport " oriented martial arts systems that were geared towards " tournament " or " point systems ".

This premise became known as the Buscetta theorem and would be recognised legally with the confirmation of the Maxi Trial sentence in January 1992.

This was done so that first-time viewers would instantly understand the premise.

Tad Stones was directed to come up with a series around the premise, as an executive liked the title Double-O Duck ; Stones was initially reluctant as he felt this would have " no heart or a sense of family " but created a pitch, with GizmoDuck, a character from the final season of DuckTales, as the sidekick ( Gizmoduck would end up as a recurring guest star ).