Back home, his wife, Mary, given the news that Tom was missing, presumed wounded, refused to accept the inevitable.
But when the prime minister's extremism task force reported in December 2013, it did not include any moves towards pre-broadcast censorship and the subject was presumed to have been dropped.
Far-right Republicans have called for an end to such agreements, with government shutdown the presumed result, in protest at President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration and other policies.
Predatory models are already emerging, with established presses offering open-access monographs alongside the print version for an all-inclusive £10,000 charge to offset a presumed (but not proved) fall in revenue: out of the reach for most individual academics, or many institutions.
So we are only a month away from a general election in which Johnson's electoral reach will be tested as never before, and perhaps from a Conservative leadership contest in which his presumed popularity would be a potent factor.
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His opponent, José María Olazábal, who could still halve the hole with a birdie putt of his own, was left waiting on the green while the Americans celebrated their presumed victory.
Farage has reacted to the criticism by hitting back at the "one person in Ukip" opposed to him – presumed to be the party's only MP Douglas Carswell.
With others unaccounted for, two people have been named as missing, presumed to be in the bar: John McGarrigle, 59, a local poet, and Mark O'Prey, a window cleaner.
Pascal and producer Scott Rudin hwere forced to apologise after it emerged they joked about Barack Obama's race and presumed taste in movies in an email conversation, while five of Sony's upcoming films have been released onto free piracy sites before they have taken a single dollar at the box office.
Those charged with, for example, murder, are presumed not entitled to bail.
