Sentence examples for a shared assumption from inspiring English sources

Suddenly there were serious, competing visions of how to help the poor -- and a shared assumption that this was actually a worthwhile thing to do.

His tone has become his trademark and conveys a shared assumption with his readers: this is how things are done in Russia.

But this sense of joint discovery, like all successful collaborations, must be grounded in trust, a shared assumption that what is labeled fact is just that.

But despite apparently contradictory aims, there is a shared assumption by old-master and contemporary artists that food is more than a means to satisfy the pangs of bodily hunger.

"What a revolting development!" "Is there really a need to translate English into Brain Dead American?" "Why not just rewrite Shakespeare in emoticons and text acronyms?" Beneath the opprobrium lay a shared assumption: that Shakespeare's genius inheres not in his complicated characters or carefully orchestrated scenes or subtle ideas but in the singularity of his words.

At times this had to be reinforced through the committees but, in general, there was a shared assumption that the project aims came above individual concerns and research agendas.

For the nation's largest banks, there is a widely shared assumption that the government would be forced to provide a backstop to protect depositors in a crisis, as it did in 2008.

Second, the depiction reflects a widely shared assumption, one which forms part of the backdrop for debates about the nature of moral motivation, namely, that moral motivation is a strikingly regular and reliable phenomenon.

A central, shared assumption of existentialist aesthetics, beyond the stark religious and political differences of the existentialists, is the essential ambiguity of the human condition: I am radically free as consciousness, yet radically determined by my facticity, the physical, social and other circumstances in which my consciousness comes to the world.

Reactions in Israel reflect a widely shared assumption, which developed over the four decades since Israel annexed East Jerusalem and declared it part of "United Jerusalem".

More common threats to fairness include a traditional, widely shared assumption in China that "if evidence points toward an individual, he must be guilty," Mr. Hu said.