France's decision to advance into Cambodia came only when it feared that British and Siamese expansion might threaten its access to the largely unmapped Mekong River, which, it assumed (incorrectly), would provide access to central China.
I had assumed, incorrectly, that the agency would be available to advocate for me and/or advise me during my stay in 'their' apartment, but my assumptions were not wholly correct (I didn't always get a response and, even when I did, it was often inadequate, at least by my 'American' standards) and I would not necessarily book an apartment through an agency again.
Fifty years ago, Jerome A. Barron, of George Washington University Law School, instructed that the marketplace fails because it assumes incorrectly that all citizens have access to it, that truth is always among the ideas in the marketplace, and that citizens are rational and will see the truth, rather than being irrational or simply subjective.
It is sometimes assumed, incorrectly (I was guilty of this, I must admit), that the PC market is on a decline without end, that it will continue to contract until it all but dries up and blows away.
The plaintiffs had assumed, incorrectly, that many other women at the club would support their effort.
The process is often assumed, incorrectly, to be fermentation, which usually implies additives.
Many people have assumed, incorrectly, that the labeling is designed to warn people who get a red wine headache.
Mr. Patterson assumed incorrectly that his financial institution, Ocean Bank, a southern Maine community bank, would cover the unauthorized debits.
Beltway hands thought they knew how to frame the Romney speech because they assumed (incorrectly) that it would build on the historical precedent set by J.F.K.
These include surreal encounters with world leaders who assumed, incorrectly, that whatever they told Mr. le Carré would be passed directly along to British Intelligence.
