Sentence examples for assume rather than from inspiring English sources
I'm not sure what the sanction would have been had I turned out to have one; a course of antibiotics and being sent to the back of the queue, I assume, rather than deportation.
Micheline Maynard, a business correspondent at The New York Times, largely ducks these questions in "The Selling of the American Economy," a book-length paean to the wonders of foreign investment that tends to assume, rather than question, the distinction between domestic and foreign companies.
Patrick Henry argued, in contrast, that the legislature must be firmly informed "of the extent of the rights retained by the people... being in a state of uncertainty, they will assume rather than give up powers by implication".
The six move through their rondelay without credible motive, their various attractions assumed rather than explained.
Solutionists err by assuming, rather than investigating, the problems they set out to tackle.
Here an S1-earthquake (maximum design earthquake) is currently assumed, rather than an S2-earthquake (extreme design earthquake).
The love between Sonny and Carol, which might violate the rules against workplace fraternization, is assumed rather than dramatized.
Charles's practice of writing regularly to ministers was an "innovation", "something he has assumed rather than inherited".
If there was a more political aspect to the Italians' works, it was ambiguous, assumed rather than expressed.
Their positions are simply assumed – rather than widely scrutinised for flaws or contradictions – and politicians and public opinion adjust accordingly.
