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Assumption in sentence

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Both of these design for the assumption that people like to create and we want to share.
First assumption: if a choice affects you, then you should be the one to make it.
The assumption then that we do best when the individual self chooses only holds when that self is clearly divided from others.
The second assumption which informs the American view of choice goes something like this.
Let's test this assumption by heading over to Eastern Europe.
Combine this with the assumption that more choices are always better, and you have a group of people for whom every little difference matters and so every choice matters.
This brings me to the third, and perhaps most problematic, assumption: "You must never say no to choice."
With respect to marriage and family: there was a time when the default assumption that almost everyone had is that you got married as soon as you could, and then you started having kids as soon as you could.
All of these concepts, as rhetorically florid as they are, share this basic assumption, which is that an idea is a single thing.
I think there's an assumption amongst most people in the public that if a mother is HIV-positive, she's going to infect her child.
I started watching the movie under the assumption that it would be bad, but I never imagined it would be this bad.
Well to be honest, I've seen this as a kid, and it scared me a bit a lot, simply because I was under aged with the assumption that Pinocchio wouldn't do that, wah wah wah.
We are meant to feel that he is more intelligent than his schoolmates, although sometimes that is a difficult assumption to make.
I was under assumption that this was the cat and mouse duo but it wasn't instead it was something that shouldn't have been made not even for its time.
A made for television version of the Heart of Darkness seemed like a good way to add more insight to the book, well, that was the wrong assumption.
Hopefully, my assumption is wrong.
The scene in which he says to his boss, (paraphrasing) "but you KNOW what my background is," along with another discussion with his mother, suggests that he's had to fight this same assumption in the past.
Of course, Boyce's mistake is the assumption that because the USA is doing bad things, the USSR is the good guy.
I went in with the assumption that if it stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Hilary Swank it had to be at least decent.
Like "Songs of the South" by Walt Disney, it may be the assumption of racial overtones that is preventing the marketing of this cinema.
"Everyone knows that when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you and umption"!!
Though the title may suggest examples of the 10 commandments, it is a definitely incorrect assumption.
It was my assumption that "The Big Bad Swim" was chosen for screening at this festival for the simple reason that it was shot locally in and around Eastern Connecticut.
He must prove his worth and fit into the elite group at the same time live down the assumption he has had an affair with his Commanding Officer's(Walter Pidgeon)wife(Ruth Hussey).
I resent another IMDB user's assumption that anyone who likes this movie has got to have an IQ of 2. What exactly does that mean?
The assumption here is that the character is rushing because someone is in danger.
The story is silly and relies on a lot of coincidences and assumption, it doesn't quite work.
There was an assumption that we were on the protagonist's side, but why deprive us of his human vulnerability as he seeks revenge?
Many people would not have done that so why would anyone go to all the effort of writing the book on the tenuous assumption that Gooding would assume authorship and in the process destroy the original manuscript?
Brilliantly written, Buscemi makes the assumption of just how relationships are all based in fear and the fact of this fear is why the characters act out and react as they do throughout this film but as we all do in the real world as well.
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