Sentence examples for assumed outright from inspiring English sources

Bonds, whose 39 home runs entering the weekend put him on pace to reach 74, has long been considered one of baseball's two nastiest players, a title he assumed outright with the recent retirement of Albert Belle.

"But I was never allowed to see it and the volume was always turned down for the introduction to the news bulletins [because of the risk of hearing un-Islamic music]." Despite their common beginnings, the women's husbands had risen through the ranks of the insurgency and assumed outright control for much of the mayhem in Mesopotamia since mid-2006.

Her own brother -- a corporate lawyer for a top New York firm -- has ripped into her about the abduction study for assuming outright that none of the abductions occurred.

And I assume the outright abolition of the USPS is out of the question politically.

For lifetime gifts, most lawyers assume an outright gift (as opposed to one made to a trust) will simply revert back to the donor.

Birdies at the 12th and 15th saw the Northern Irishman assume the lead outright before he spectacularly holed his bunker shot for a birdie on the last to confirm the win.

I had assumed you to be an outright and noble gay, fighting to tell us our real and true early American history, unencumbered by all your fucking theories.

Typically, though, if not always, they tried to avoid outright, provable lies, which it was commonly assumed would be politically damaging if exposed.

It had been widely assumed that the Muslim Brotherhood would capture a plurality rather than an outright majority of votes, much as its cousins, Nahda in Tunisia and the Justice and Development Party in Morocco, have recently done.

An outright sale, assuming the price was high, would allow esure to show a nice turn on last year's £95m buy-in of the stake.

"So accustomed do we become to the violence and obscenity of Mr. Price's world," he wrote, "that any act short of outright murder assumes a quality of near-Chekhovian understatement".