Did you think Estrella was?" It seemed Estrella had put the lighter, which she always polished, near a box of things in the hallway that was to be thrown out: the old telephone book, and other things not good enough for the sale... the houseguest had, for some reason, assumed a lot of things and combined the lighter with the trash, which she'd placed in the backseat of Estrella's station wagon.
We used a formula that, for practical reasons, assumed a linear change over time between measurements.
With her dream of becoming America's first black, female concert pianist crushed, Simone turned to performing in bars to earn a living, a job she regarded as such a humiliating defeat that one reason she assumed a stage name was so that her mother wouldn't find out what she was up to.
For the same reason, we assumed a higher mating frequency for successful males than for females despite paternal care.
For this reason we assumed a high prevalence (4%), to be sure that the calculation of the sample size was sufficient.
Some moral theorists do assume that a reason to believe that an act is immoral cannot be adequate unless it also provides a reason not to do that act.
Gentle in his phrasing, but clear in his warning, Morgenthau noted that "the diplomatic overture" of Obama's April handshake with Chavez "is not a reason to assume a diminished threat from our neighbor to the south".
"I'd assume a lot of the reason they'd want to change their primary residence is because we don't".
But many liberals, assuming a false view of reason, think that such a messaging system for ideas they believe in would be illegitimate -- doing the things that the conservatives do that they consider underhanded.
Such cosmopolitanism and optimism are such a major element that, against all prejudices about American broadcasting, they must be assumed to be a reason for the series's endurance.
