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 ".

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.

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.

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.

Literally petitio principii means " assuming the premise " or " assuming the original point ," or, alternately, " a request for the beginning or premise ;" that is, the premise depends on the truth of the very matter in question.

Gavin Collinson of the British Film Institute's website Screenonline wrote " The premise of Blake's 7 held nothing remotely original.

The 2001 film Gosford Park paid homage to the classic whodunit premise, while at the same time presenting an original story.

*" For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky ", an episode of the original Star Trek with a similar premise.

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.

All of the sequels repeated the premise of the original, so the filmmakers made tweaks to provide freshness.

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.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise elaborated on the premise of the original series ' " Mirror " universe and developed multi-episode story arcs based on the premise.

The siblings have acknowledged that they are satisfied with Maeda's version, apparently despite concerns that the premise contradicts that of the original film by showing the origins of the Matrix and the human / machine war, of which character Morphehis own likeness.

The show is a " contemporary take " on the original premise, with new performers and musical performances.

0, this flaw is evident again in line 7, where one must divide by b ( 0 ) in order to produce the fallacy ( not to mention that the only possible solution denies the original premise that a and b are nonzero ).

; since such a sequence cannot go on infinitely, the original premise that such a triangle exists must be wrong.

Invisible War is set twenty years after Deus Ex, and is based on the premise that a combination of all three of the original game's possible endings occurred.

By the time the show was ready to open, however, Borglum had resigned from the committee, feeling that the emphasis on avant-garde works had co-opted the original premise of the show and made traditional artists like himself look provincial.

The basic premise of this technique is that, once a person complies with a small request ( e. g. filling in a short questionnaire ), he / she will be more likely to comply with a more substantial request which is related to the original request ( e. g. buying the related product ).

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 1943 war-time story " Nothing But Gingerbread Left ", written decades before by science fiction writer Henry Kuttner, has a very close premise.

Two novels titled Hard Crash and Prophet's Power were published, expanding on the premise and story first introduced in Unreal.

The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written.

This story is set in 1995, current events having invalidated the premise during production of the series.

" 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.

The short story also asserts the premise that while currently trapped in R ' lyeh, Cthulhu will eventually return, with worshipers often repeating the phrase Ph ' nglui mglw ' nafh Cthulhu R ' lyeh wgah ' nagl fhtagn: " In his house at R ' lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming ".

The love story between Berenice and Titus is also the premise of La clemenza di Tito ( 1734 ), an Italian opera by Antonio Caldara ( mus.

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.

The premise of this story is that Hereward was an alias adopted by King Harold after surviving the Battle of Hastings.

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

This is the premise of I of Persistence, a human life-extension manifesto and science fiction story.

( Newman has said that if he had realised he would get so many sequels out of the premise, he would have saved Kolchak up for a story set in the character's native 1970s.

It states the basic premise of the show, and provides a brief back story.

In his autobiography, On Writing, King attributes the basic premise to the short story " The Colour Out of Space " by H. P. Lovecraft.

The breakdown of this identification of two points into one is the premise of H. G. Wells story " The Remarkable Case of Davidson ’ s Eyes " ( 1895 ).

The premise of Ride with the Devil is based on the true story of pro-Confederate guerrillas who fought against Union troops under the leadership of William Clarke Quantrill.

Other films inspired by Gloria include Ultraviolet ( 2006 ), which uses the premise of a woman on the run with a little boy and transposes the story to a dystopian futuristic setting, and Erick Zonca's 2008 film Julia, starring Tilda Swinton.

He had been impressed with her previous works and had written to her, courtesy of The Sketch magazine ( publishers of many of her short stories at that time ) with an idea and notes for a story whose basic premise mirrored the Watts suggestion.

But, for all that, his basic premise of fear fired by menace is so thin and so utterly unconvincing that the story just does not stand.

The film Year Of The Comet, a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film, is based on this premise and tells the story of the pursuit of a contemporarily discovered bottle of wine from the year of the Great Comet bottled for Napoleon.

After the first chapter, which simply outlines past ideas and accepted rules regarding the heart and lungs, Harvey moves on to a fundamental premise to his treatise, stating that it was extremely important to study the heart when it was active in order to truly comprehend its true movement ; a task which even he found of great difficulty, as he says: