The News Night duo's utter indifference toward their friend's profession and pending commission on the sale -- save for Jim's incredulity at hearing one Alexander McQueen dress's five-figure price tag ("That's three times what I paid for my car!" he balks )-- underscores the characters' larger presumption that fashion is pretty much a nonissue for serious journalists like themselves.
Are they, too, in on the larger presumption that no one wants to be there because schools are broken and the work that takes place there is not valued?
But if it only considered colour sensations to be its own states of being, and took pleasure or pain only in their chromatic qualities and not in their shapes (a rather large presumption that Condillac seems not to have realized making), it would have no reason to notice that colours have shapes or even that they have particular locations relative to one another.
As peoples of varying ethnicity and language occupied Campania in the Roman Iron Age, the etymology depends to a large degree on the presumption of what language was spoken there at the time.
There's the presumption that the beauty-care industry would have had a larger share of women CEOs than it has.
To a large extent that may be because of the widely held presumption that nothing more will come of the case.
However, most experts believe that making such presumption probably would leave us in 25 years with still a large contingent of coal-fired power plants worldwide.
That presumption is well illustrated by one case in which Mr. Reich represents the owners in a large luxury building that he had hoped the attorney general would see to.
If a company signs a large support contract that will be serviced on a recurring basis, and tells its investors, they model under that presumption.
The design studio, at the heart of design education everywhere, embodies the underlying presumption that students who work side by side, and often in collaboration, benefit from being exposed to a large number of ideas of peers and instructors.
The existence of a moral right establishes a presumption in favour of the establishment of a legal right, but that presumption can be overturned by other considerations.
