Assume in sentence

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It's just that for those of us dealing with scale, for those of us tasked with keeping people safe, we have to assume the worst will happen, because for us, a one-in-a-million chance is pretty good odds.

If you show a tiger to an American, they're much more likely to assume that it's female and not male.

We unwittingly assume that values like justice, beauty, kindness, are akin to scientific quantities, like length, mass and weight.

As post-Enlightenment creatures, we tend to assume that scientific thinking holds the key to everything of importance in our world, but the world of value is different from the world of science.

We shouldn't assume that the world of is, of lengths and weights, has the same structure as the world of ought, of what we should do.

And it feels like, and I'm biased, it feels like they're trying to make you memorize the whole encyclopedia before they let you go out and play, and to me, I've got Wikipedia on my cell phone, and it feels like they assume you're going to be on top of some mountain all by yourself with a number 2 pencil trying to figure out what to do when in fact you're always going to be connected, you're always going to have friends, and you can pull Wikipedia up whenever you need it, and what you need to learn is how to learn.

One would assume that I'm comfortable in the public sphere and comfortable here, speaking to you guys.

And he looks at us and says, "Well, when a 350-pound man walks in the emergency room and says he can't breath, you assume he's having a heart attack and you ask questions later."

So we cannot assume that part of the web, part of the deal with the web, is when I use the web, it's just a transparent, neutral medium.

So as soon as I see a question about things I'm afraid of, which might be earthquakes, other religions, maybe I'm afraid of terrorists or sharks, anything that makes me feel, assume you're going to exaggerate the problem.

And what made him so excited about this discovery was that that would mean that the prisoners would have to assume that they were being watched at any given moment, which would be the ultimate enforcer for obedience and compliance.

We have all read about the arrest of your partner, David Miranda in London, and other difficulties, but I assume that in terms of personal engagement and risk, that the pressure on you is not that easy to take on the biggest sovereign organizations in the world.

But the point is, if you start with this first principle of benefiting everyone, then elegant solutions may become more obvious than you assume.

We have to prepare for the following performance, and I have a question for you, and the question is this: You show up in places like the ones you just have shown us, and you are carrying a camera and I assume that you are welcome but you are not always absolutely welcome.

So if companies really want accountability, they should assume that that is a given.

So when mathematicians are asked what math is for, they tend to fall into two groups: 54.51 percent of mathematicians will assume an attacking position, and 44.77 percent of mathematicians will take a defensive position.

One cannot assume this.

On the left here, you see video of a person's wrist, and on the right, you see video of a sleeping infant, but if I didn't tell you that these were videos, you might assume that you were looking at two regular images, because in both cases, these videos appear to be almost completely still.

So Lord Mansfield decided that he would assume, without deciding, that James Somerset was indeed a legal person, and he issued the writ of habeus corpus, and James's body was brought in by the captain of the ship.

Perhaps it is because the trio doesn't assume conventional notions associated with love, romance or partnership.

And I assume you didn't only have friendly reactions on Twitter.

I don't know why he had a posh English accent, but I assume he did.

But when it comes to the really big stuff, like what's our career path going to be or who should we marry, why should we assume that our intuitions are better calibrated for these than slow, proper analysis?

Assume that one had a piece of paper that was very fine, like the kind they typically use to print the Bible.

Let's also assume that you have a big piece of paper, like a page out of the newspaper.

Assume we continue folding the paper in half.

Since our own sex is determined by genes, and we do know of these other animals that have their sex determined by genes, it's easy to assume that for all animals the sex of their babies still must be determined by genetics.

What it is fair to say is: how we can we organize ourselves to assume our international responsibilities?

For now, we assume that several factors are the cause.

Assume overhead sunlight falling on a sloping curve.

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