That way of thinking fails to demonstrate that strong abatement is necessary; in effect, it merely assumes it to be necessary.
And if you think I'm merely assuming that they do, you're wrong.
When I confronted him back home, grinding my back molars, he merely said airily, "I just assumed you had other plans".
It was merely assumed to be invincible.
Moreover, in most of the cases reciting the Agins formula, the Court has merely assumed its validity when referring to it in dicta.
So Sharpe James merely assumed a pose like a batter when he was warned that a verbal curveball was headed his way.
Mr. Justice WHITE's assertion that § 241 encompasses the same rights as § 242 is based in par upon dicta in opinions that have merely assumed this fact without reasoned consideration of the legislative history.
Although the Seventh Circuit merely assumed that the ADA applies to professional golf tournaments, and therefore did not disagree with the Ninth on the threshold coverage issue, our grant of certiorari, 530 U.S. 1306 (2000), encompasses that question as well as the conflict between those courts.
Under these circumstances, it should not be controlling whether plaintiff selected the machine because of the statements in the brochure, or because of the machine's own appearance of excellence that belied the defect lurking beneath the surface, or because he merely assumed that it would safely do the jobs it was built to do.
It cannot be merely assumed that the amendments were immaterial, and, in the absence of any proof of their nature and extent, the date of refiling, which was after they were made, must be taken as the time to which rights under the approved map relate.
Instead of analyzing the serious questions the case presents, however, the court merely assumed "that there was federal constitutional error committed as a consequence of the in camera conversations between Fagan and the trial judge in that neither [respondent] nor [his] counsel were present". Id., at 23.
