The phrase "assume support" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is taking for granted that support will be provided or is expected in a situation.
Example: "In this project, we will assume support from the management team to ensure its success."
Alternatives: "presume assistance" or "take for granted support".
If we cannot appeal to class consciousness or assume support for the welfare state, how do we express collectivity or even envision the good life?
Accountants, business planners and English majors would most likely assume support roles, including scrubbing floors around the plants and washing pots and pans at cafeterias now serving the employees.
In particular where planners easily assume support for renewables can be generated by information campaigns emphasising the environmental benefits, whereas opposition to renewable energy schemes can be explained by a selfish 'not in my backyard' attitude.
When talent conversations happen, women who bring forward talented women find that their recommendations are discounted, presumably because their male colleagues assume support is based on gender.
Oh, to answer an implicit question of yours: HTML5 video has a de facto "can assume supported" codec -> H.264. It's available on pretty much all platforms, including free software platforms.
After I posted "Who Does Tulsi Gabbard Represent?" earlier this week at Huffpost and Medium, someone who I assume supports Rep. Gabbard posted a 490 word "comment" at Medium dissecting my questions about whether our current Congresswoman truly supports progressive positions.
But if the benefits are less than has been widely assumed, support is likely to weaken, he said.
Three different assumed support conditions corresponding to no support; rail pads; and rail pads, sleepers and ballast have been modeled.
Council leaders have been irritated, for example, by Mr. Bloomberg's recent comments assuming support for his push to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.
The beta density is a very flexible density, assuming support on the interval (0,1).
The beta regression model was proposed by Paulino [ 3], Ferrari and Cribrari-Neto [ 4], and Smithson and Verkuilen [ 5] for modelling covariate effects on a continuous response variable which assumes support on the interval (0,1).
