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But I'm glad to see that they upheld the general premise that parents have a right to be involved, and have the authority to be involved, and should, in fact, be involved, especially when there's a concern with the minor's health, before they have an abortion.

Phyllis Woods

Our basic premise is to have an informed public so that they can make informed decisions. But we rely on the media to do that.

Steven Boylan

That is a completely false premise, for as 'polarizing' as Katherine may be with Democrats, she is equally energizing with Republicans around Florida. Moderates at the end of the day will see that what Katherine Harris did in 2000 is exactly what the law called for.

Jim Dornan

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Kofi Annan

There are programs like this all over the nation. The premise behind it is improvement of the self ... improvement of the community.

Andrew Speller

The whole premise of the show is that the audience comes in and fills out half a dozen cards before they go into the theater.

Michael Bias

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

The premise is to raise money for the family support groups to use as they see fit.

Wayne Kenton

It has been a labor of love. It's a concept Chesney came up with in carrying out the premise that our museums are repositories of the American experiences.

Marc Doyle

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

Leo Strauss

How can you claim to be the candidate of change, when you have done exactly what you said you wouldn't, seek money from outside the district and so-called special interests? It contradicts the whole premise of his campaign as the anti-establishment, independent voice.

Jim Mcgrath

This whole premise of 'Who would you like [to have] a beer with?' has incredible legs. We envision this as [an industry] platform that can run a long time.

Bob Lachky

I didn't go into this with the underlying premise that I wanted to eliminate the idea of a centralized campus.

Joe Herald

Our whole premise is you have to be able to search inside the audio.

Alex Laats

The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is a difference between eating a hamburger and eating a bowl of cereal. For one of them, a living creature had to be killed. Should we ever become so casual about the eating of meat that we lose sight of that distinction, a part of our humanity will have shriveled and died.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

The state money was based on the premise that there would be economic development and job creation.

Marshall Criser

The flaw in the statute [is] that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

Harry A. Blackmun

We have a 3-yard, 4-yard, 5-yard, 20-yard premise. It's going to be 3, 4, 5, then 3, 4, 5, then we're going to hit a 20. That's how we've done it, and we've hit a lot bigger runs than that. We're stubborn. We know we're going to keep doing what we do.

Alge Crumpler

Sort of to reintroduce life into the country, ... So that's the premise of it. It's got a good idea in it. I like that.

Danny Boyle

This is the third disgruntled parent club. When you form under the premise of 'I'm going to get him,' it won't work.

Orlando Anaya

It's not that on-demand software can't integrate. It's just that the integration tools in traditional on-premise software are better. The more complex the integration requirements, the better off you'll be with onsite software.

Paul Greenberg

I don't know if my question had a premise.

John Warden

We couldn't agree more with that premise. I would add that things are getting worse because of the endless drive to squeeze costs.

Sal Souto

The basic premise is a guy has been in jail for being one of the biggest gangland thugs in many years.

Joe Quesada

It's a very smart move particularly if you buy into the premise that it's actually fixed.

Stuart Rossmiller

The problem with this program is its premise that the state's central bureaucracy should control all facilities construction.

Jim Holt

Their premise is as long as you can make fun of everybody, then everybody is a potential target.

Tony Fox

We've always maintained that the whole premise of her candidacy has been silly. Ms. McFarland is not a serious candidate and once again she's proved it.

Christian Winthrop

Our basic premise is to determine whether a violation of the Fair Housing Act has occurred. We'll be looking at whether their housing of older-people status is valid under the federal law.

Leon Russell

It's not for them to decide whether it is relevant or not. It's for Judge [Joseph] Condon to decide. I believe there is a history of using a premise of a polygraph and supposedly ending up with a confession.

Mark Gummerson

It's a long process. Nothing happens overnight. They're very tight lipped. We don't even know much about the premise of the show we are up for.

Matt Toka

The L7 is really in what we call our 'self-expression portfolio,' where design and style is the key premise behind the product.

Steve Lalla

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Richard Hatch

Let's put it this way: The billboard exceeds the allowable height and area for an on-premise sign, and there are probably other issues that will keep it from being approved. We'll see what the NCC and Cooper work out, but it'll probably be disapproved if they don't come to an agreement of some kind.

David Rice

It has been an underpinning of U.S. policy and a premise of the Perry report that a South-North dialogue is central to peace and stability on the peninsula.

Wendy Sherman

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Walter Lang

This is the basic premise for everything. Gather, purge and sort. This pile is to take to another room where you can look at it later. And this is the indecision pile. Come back when you have another opportunity.

Sue Shipman

I always came back to the one basic premise that I really wanted to coach this team, I really wanted to be with this group. I wanted to follow what we did and continue this job, continue this journey with these kids.

Dave Magarity

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

Robert Brustein

I don't agree with the premise that there are unmet medical needs.

Jack Cassidy

The basic premise is that all our shirts just look damned good. They've all got kind of a street-edge, skater look to them.

Elan Lee

We're going to go on the premise that it could happen. We have to prepare for that. This could happen so that we have to be prepared for that demand for skills and labor.

Elaine Roth

Some of (the concerns) we were able to deal with -- having to do with sensitivities in the portrayal of Islam in the movie, ... But some of which asked us to change the premise of the film, which we were unwilling to do.

Ed Zwick