Don't assume why someone is wearing something.
We assume: "Why can't you go back to being the person who got by for seventeen or eighteen years?" How does someone leave behind the person who completed boot camp, and then survived combat by developing necessary behaviors like hyper-vigilance and hyper-arousal?
Generalisability of these results to other employee sectors and countries could be limited, although there is no particular reason to assume why the joint effects of physical activity and smoking on disability retirement risk would largely differ between, for example, employment sectors or area of living.
The chatterbox will assume why you type or text that you're multi-tasking.
All too often, however, parents and educators enable senioritis by lowering expectations in effort and coursework, giving in to the student who assumes, "Why work hard?
That is why he was so upset with Blair's Wars, and that, I assume, is why it's banned at Guantánamo.
An elderly musician kicked up a solo on stage and the audience started to quiet, but the lights still weren't lowered, which, I assume, is why the middle-aged man to my right didn't turn off his iPad.
It is no longer assumed that why comes first, or that to answer why provides the necessary foundation upon which all else must rest.
(That, one assumes, is why the private-equity firm Lone Star Funds spent almost seven billion dollars, in July, to buy such assets from Merrill Lynch, at a steep discount).
They assumed – and why not? – that we were one of them, although we never rose, never extended our arms to heaven, and never responded "amen".
But, again, he's the ongoing Republican front-runner – which, one assumes, is why the "scoop" that Biden was going to declare his candidacy went to Fox News and not the New York Times.
