Is there an event or events in your past that could be considered predicating factors to your losing your sanity?

Thomas noted three forms of descriptive language when predicating: univocal, analogical, and equivocal.

A tendency existed at the time to assume that electricity was altogether safe, while its opponents, predicating their attacks on arc-lighting casualties, insisted it was most dangerous.

While I take Walker's point about the trap involved in always predicating social policies on economic policies and their success, it is clear that any transformation must involve basal change.

One would be to say that the predicating of names like 'white' does not involve classification (taking classification to be the performing of tests indicated by the definition of the general name).

The traditional initial model for all our undertakings, with its invariant axiom predicating the existence of a ramified organization of evildoers, had been shattered into dust, and I was only amazed that I had failed heretofore to recognize its inane complexity in the context of this simple-minded country.

The whole system of international law was predicated upon states.

"My whole career has been predicated on making common cause with other groups."

Until then, women's track and field was predicated on the club system.

But the national security of America and our allies is not predicated on hope.

Any action we vote upon here tonight must be predicated on that.

Your missions would be predicated on where you're most needed.

"Is my arrest predicated on the information in the book?"

The movement of the ball was predicated on what the defense allowed.

The whole 1998 budget was predicated on interest rates of 14 percent and lower.

Further, the plan was predicated on everyone else following those unknown rules as well.

American public education was not predicated on things like this."

The first such journey had been predicated on a lie.

Why, their whole lives had been predicated on the privilege of planning.

All that is predicated, however, on the success of the makeover.

The insurance industry's cost structure is predicated on high margins.

If we're to establish any sort of relationship, it must be predicated on trust.

"The moves are going to be predicated on the opportunities," he said.

That, of course, was entirely predicated on whether or not he survived the next hour.

After all, her friend's stay in the science section was predicated on the number of images he could describe.

Our thinking is predicated on a mass attack by a great many bees.

"I just think it shows that Detroit still has a business model predicated on low energy prices."

"Some people's lives are predicated on a dream and an illusion," she said.

This book is predicated on the assumption that art matters.

It later called for "an Internet predicated on order, rather than chaos."

And predicating our world based on that promise was everyone else's mistake.