Mr. Soares's victory makes it clear that the number of people who accept the laws' mistaken premises and shamefully racist results is rapidly decreasing.

For, though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof.

We'll talk about a mistaken premise, Bard.

This advice was based on the mistaken premise that political solutions suitable in the United States would likewise be suitable in any other country.

In a recent editorial, The Times opposed this bill based on a mistaken premise.

Such a strategy, he says, rests upon the mistaken premise that every Christian is called to exercise the gift of evangelism.

But science, true science, does learn from mistakes; theologians like Roger Lambert merely further complicate their own mistaken premises.

If one judged merely from these war-time phenomena, it would be easy to imagine that antisemitism is a quasi-rational thing, founded on mistaken premises.

The BIA must interpret the statute, free from this mistaken legal premise, in the first instance.

I saw in a flash that I'd been working from the beginning on mistaken premises.