Sentence examples for I once supposed from inspiring English sources

Disappointingly, it is not officially named, as I once supposed, after the great poet John Milton and the economist John Maynard Keynes.

Occasionally, they can even be sublimely terrifying: While reviewing an exhibition about the building of the Empire State Building, for example, I was led past a locked door on the 103rd floor to an outdoor ledge where dirigibles were once supposed to anchor: I stood clinging with white knuckles to a handle on the wall, as the wind whipped around me.

After all, as Reagan is once supposed to have said, Latinos are natural Republicans.

He made more concessions to nationalist-expansionist feeling and to military demands than were once supposed.

Close mating may be more harmful to a family's prospects than was once supposed.

Scientists once supposed that giant squid and the colossal squid were relatively passive creatures, zeppelins of the deep.

Heavily armed "Special Weapons and Tactics" (SWAT) teams were once supposed to deal with hostage-takers, active shooters or sieges.

Mr. Schur said it was a misconception that the show was once supposed to be forever about the hole.

It turned out, though, that the politics of the orgasm wasn't as straightforward as Reich once supposed.

It was once supposed that the neurophysiological mechanisms subserving consciousness and the higher mental processes must reside in the cortex.

Criminologists once supposed that immigrants got into crime because other avenues to advancement were closed, and that once they entered the mainstream they would quickly "go straight".