The phrase "a war assuming that" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to introduce a hypothetical situation or condition related to war, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "A war assuming that all parties will adhere to the ceasefire is unlikely to succeed."
Alternatives: "a war predicated on the assumption that" or "a war based on the premise that".
But there is a broader consensus that a war, assuming that it goes well and remains restricted to Iraq, would be neutral or even negative for the economy.
He aims to break even in Europe by March 2004, though that goal would also fall foul of a war, assuming that travellers are scared off for a while.Even with no shots fired in the Gulf, BA has had a taste of the impact to come.
But it has never been vague about the claim that all combatants are liable to attack by other combatants at any time during a state of war (assuming that soldiers who are wounded, have surrendered, or are attempting to surrender have ceased to pose a threat and are thus no longer combatants).
One day, I posed the same hypothetical question to both of my teachers: Let's say that an Ecuadoran soldier has fought valiantly for his country in a war — assume, for instance, that Ecuador invaded France, looking for weapons of mass destruction — and has been gravely wounded.
Most of the models that researchers use to study conflicts like the Iraq war assume that civilians and leaders make a rational calculation: If the total cost of the war is less than the cost of the alternatives, they will support war.
And secondly, opposition to democracy promotion based on the Iraq War assumes that the only way for America to promote democracy and human rights is through war.
The sponsorship appears to be a victory for Pepsi in the never-ending Cola Wars — assuming that viewers take to "X Factor" the way Fox and Pepsi hope they do.
Assuming that political war is our only option would be a tragic mistake - however small we may judge the possibility of a better alternative - because that political war is apt to be profoundly damaging to the nation.
Most of the theories and models that researchers use to study conflicts like the Libyan or Iraq wars assume that civilians and leaders make a rational calculation: If the total cost of the war is less than the cost of the alternatives, they will support war.
After the U.S. Civil War, American feminists assumed that woman suffrage would be included in the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited disfranchisement on the basis of race.
And when military interrogators were unleashed in Guantánamo in 2002, FBI agents opened a file labeled "War Crimes," assuming that eventually a prosecutor would examine the evidence and charge those who had violated the law.
