But an implicit premise is that only worthless things are given away freely.

His implicit premise is that the present is ordained by the past.

The altruist-collectivist premise, implicit in that question, is that men are "their brothers' keepers" and that the misfortune of some is a mortgage on others.

Mrs. Clinton's implicit premise is that Federal subsidies can offset Federal regulation.

News reporting conforms to the same implicit premises.

The implicit premise of the book was that the change was permanent: that the Organization Man and all he represented would henceforth define the American character.

It's the implicit premise of all those "reality" shows on television, which can transform a corpulent corporate consultant into a People cover boy.

Had the authors stuck with this theme - and explained it quickly - this could have been a helpful book, because their implicit premises are correct.

First, there is an implicit premise that the very fact of there being an international dimension to some policy area of itself justifies a common European approach.

Second, there's an implicit premise that if the FCC were to look at the future of the media, that would represent a dramatic new role for the government.