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His acceptance of 181 was premissed on the assumption that the Palestinians would not accept.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

My problem with DeLong's thesis is that it seems premissed on the assumption that the Chinese Communist Party is primarily concerned with liberalizing Chinese society and not primarily conerned with retaining its hold on power.

I have been remiss ... Frank Wilson 2006

I think it is worth noting that most contemporary environmentalism James Lovelock is presumably an exception seems premissed, not on the Romantic notion, but on the earlier, mechanistic one, that separates man from nature.

Is it wrong ... Frank Wilson 2007

I think it is premissed on a simple-minded notion of God as some everlasting Edison puttering about in his celestial laboratory.

Speaking of Bryan ... Frank Wilson 2007

Responsible treatment of the environment hardly needs to be premissed on arguments for impending catastrophe.

A note of dissent ... Frank Wilson 2007

It would be really cool to live in a world whose international legal regimes ewre not premissed on nation-states.

The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism | Jewschool 2004

"[MADAME,] [985]" My dewitie moist humilie premissed: Your Grace's servand, Maister

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Pardon me, most inforrmed intelligencia, if you are going to post an opinion which is premissed on a quote, particularly found in the Bible, you might want to check your references ....

MoJo Blogs and Articles 2009

Here, again, Berlin's pluralism is opposed to relativism, since it is premissed on a belief that, for human beings, at least some values are intrinsically rather than instrumentally good, and that at least some values are universally valid, even if others aren't ” and even if this universal validity isn't recognised.

Isaiah Berlin Cherniss, Joshua 2008

Yet at bottom, for Yeats too, myth, with its imaginative depths and its heroic actors, is at the heart of the presumed affinity, and he can even talk as if his career were premissed on it: "we Irish poets

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