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• n  land and the buildings on it
  bread is baked on the premises
  the were evicted from the premises
• n  a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
• v  set forth beforehand, often as an explanation
• v  furnish with a preface or introduction
• v  take something as preexisting and given

• I believe his new book follows much less from his data than from his premises, and yet I admire his determination.
• But before you give your been-there-done-that shrug, and well before Brad and Sarah get it on, director and co-writer Todd Field establishes some very nontraditional premises, both .
• The marchers remained silentbut they did not leave the premises.

• premise
• premiss
• assumption
• precede
• preface
• introduce

News & Articles

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• Integrating the Enterprise's Old and New Worlds
  With nearly every market forecast and growing anecdotal evidence pointing to escalating demand for cloud-based alternatives to traditional on-premises systems and software, the challenges of integrating the new on-demand solutions to existing applications and data sources are becoming even more critical. Data integration continues to be a pivotal part of successful "as a Service" adoption.
  June 15, 2013 - E-Commerce Times
• Landlord concerned about state of lawn
  Landlord concerned about state of lawn Assuming that your rental agreement defines the rental premises of your house to include the lawn and bushes, damage to these items would be included, but only if the tenants were responsible for the landscape maintenance. Absent agreement to the contrary, you would be responsible for this maintenance. Since the landscaping is not a required element of ...
  June 15, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• Mitel Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results Conference Call
  OTTAWA -- Mitel(R) , a leading provider of cloud and premises-based unified communications and collaboration (UCC) solutions, today announced that it will release its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013 ...
  June 14, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Jimmy Carter in Christian Post
  Not one of the critics of my book has contradicted any of the basic premises ...... that is the horrible persecution and oppression of the Palestinian people and secondly that the formula for finding peace in the Middle East already exists,...
• Chris Huhne in USA Today
  There should be strict guidelines about when such secret documents are outside carefully monitored premises,said Chris Huhne with the Liberal Democrats, the third largest opposition party.
• Dale Earnhardt Jr in SI.com
  He was parked up on the hill with all the other fans, and I guess there was no real discussions about whether or not he could participate as a fan and come to the race,Earnhardt said. "They never said he totally had to be off the premises....