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Assumption in sentence

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In either case, the film works as a satire on the small-minded attitudes of rural America, and the assumption, fuelled by Christianity, that sex is dirty and sinful.
Well, that brusque blow-off assumption is wrong.
And apparently she is correct in her assumption since the film is narrated by her fresh corpse on a morgue slab.
Therein lies the fault of Kickin' It Old School, its assumption that there is something virtuous in acting like a 13 year old, and an immature one at that, especially when it's writers are thirty something, and throwing their best material into the mix.
Perhaps the assumption that something could be made of Dodsworth is understandable (given the right script, which he never got, Dodsworth might have been a very effective character) but the return of this utterly repulsive sidekick is totally mystifying.
Instead, I see on the show when the idiot asks for more hot sauce in Mexico there was no please and no thank you, just an assumption and very little effort put in to speak the native language.
Upon finally giving in and watching the series, it becomes all the more apparent that this an assumption that's not totally true.
This is ab assumption, but it could be a fact.... Anyway, it's great to see a movie with different distributors with different ideas.
Next, contrary to possible popular belief or assumption, Che is not your typical biopic film.
The theory of rational expectations makes the heroic assumption that market participants as a group are in a position to discount the future accurately.
That assumption may yield a hypothetical equilibrium, but has little relevance to actual market behavior, and neither market operators nor regulators fully accept the theory because they are rational people.
The assumption is that a crucial goal for Britain would be to negotiate a trading relationship as close as possible to the free-trade relationships that exist today.
The assumption is that if news outlets were to report only the “facts,” readers and viewers would always reach the right conclusion about a given story.
Reagan captured this assumption well, recalling the sixth-century BC Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu’s famous words: “Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish: too much handling will spoil it.”
That assumption has yet to be proved.
This approach is based on the assumption that we can trust the candidates’ judgment.
On the contrary, nowadays many are questioning the assumption that greater market efficiency is always and everywhere a public good.
Or it could also mean that economists’ baseline model of the international economy – especially the assumption of “uncovered interest parity,” which holds that foreign interest income expressed in the domestic currency should equal the domestic interest rate – is simply wrong.
The underlying assumption is that the new rules, unlike the previous rules, will be enforced.
But the system rests on the assumption that the government will set accurate benchmark interest rates for risk-free assets.
As the recent crises in advanced countries demonstrated, this is not a safe assumption: Unsustainable public debt and fiscal deficits forced central banks to expand their balance sheets massively, causing benchmark rates to turn negative in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
That assumption is the heart of democracy; it is a revolution for diplomacy.
And Hamilton needed Congress to approve the federal government’s assumption of the states’ debts, which at first seemed unlikely.
As a result, many states feared federal assumption would mean that their taxes would go to pay northern speculators or to retire the debt of big borrowers, like Massachusetts.
Virginia and several other southern states that owed little or had repaid what they owed voted against Hamilton’s first assumption bill and defeated it.
Jefferson and Madison, the southern leaders, opposed Hamilton’s assumption plan, and Madison was critical in blocking it in Congress.
It was none other than the founder of the Zionist fundamentalist right, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, who warned in 1924 against “the naive assumption that the aspiration of the Palestinians…will be paralyzed by such means as subsidies, economic advantages, or bribery.”
Part of the problem is the deep-seated assumption that women are meant to attend to men's needs.
Now, however, it appears that the authorities wanted only a small, managed opening, on the assumption that they could control the outcome.
Models of MadnessMental health services around the world are largely based on the assumption that being upset or disoriented is a sort of condition like medical illnesses.
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