Assumptions

Now, you can make certain assumptions from this call. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can't see that either of these assumptions is warranted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Making moves on nothing more than assumptions is generally a very bad idea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So the twin assumptions behind this situation seem to be that (1) the Democrats have a Senate majority to pass an amended bill, and (2) the filibuster would prevent them from doingso. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In some recent comments Salvador Cordova has shown that a particular model entailing young earth assumptions is testable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In doing so it also challenges certain assumptions that we may have about the level of effective literacy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"What the State Department did was to discriminate against her based on her record of MS and their perceptions of her disability by making certain assumptions about her condition and then, based on those assumptions, ruling out certain State Department posts," Schwartz said. ❋ Joe Davidson (2010)

In December 2008, as the financial crisis deepened, TFG established a reserve against potential unrealized losses on its holdings, to reflect Tetragon Financial Management's "more pessimistic set of short-term assumptions." ❋ Margot Patrick (2011)

The other assumptions is that in depicting the "consciousness" of characters, the narrator (as the author's stand-in) is projecting the consciousness of the writer, the characters becoming merely convenient excuses for the writer to engage in commentary and speculation about a whole range of "ideas." ❋ Unknown (2009)

It’s bad enough that her privacy has been invaded, but we shouldn’t blame a bloody student for trying to address a scientific question, no matter how clumsy, tasteless or even proceeding on false assumptions is her effort. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* It allows the state to make key adjustments at the retail and wholesale levels if certain assumptions don't pan out with experience: under the McDonnell plan, once those big up-front fees are paid, the state is very likely out of luck, ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of your assumptions is clearly in error, John; progressives (and liberals) are not interested in telling people whether they should have children, or not. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It may be that this insistence on refining the question, or examining its implicit assumptions, is part of what makes academic criticism less appealing to the 'average intelligent reader,' if what they are after is actually a recommendation .... ❋ Unknown (2010)

The degree to which accommodations are made through the design and construction of the SR 520 project deeply depend on certain assumptions regarding light rail for the corridor that have not yet been made by the City or the region. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though Roosevelt, like most Anglo-Saxon Americans of that time period, still held to certain assumptions of and prejudices against blacks, the fact that he was willing to break bread with a black man – and that his family were present as well – was astounding in a time period where the advances and tentative healing made during Reconstruction were receding to the point of memory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To say that an artist or writer works in a context that has been established by his/her experience of his/her society's practices or assumptions is at best trivial, at worst simply tautological. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You have to make certain assumptions about the policy context in order to predict the affect of rent control. ❋ Unknown (2010)