Sentence examples for assumed rather than from inspiring English sources

Even so, specific laws are often assumed rather than predicted.

The six move through their rondelay without credible motive, their various attractions assumed rather than explained.

The rise of new atheism has attracted significant attention but its novelty is often assumed rather than explained.

Their positions are simply assumed – rather than widely scrutinised for flaws or contradictions – and politicians and public opinion adjust accordingly.

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".

Solutionists err by assuming, rather than investigating, the problems they set out to tackle.

The film follows the novel (and many others like it) in assuming, rather than proving, that its hero's selfishness and failure offer clues to the human condition, rather than evidence of individual limitation.

In practice, Mount simply assumes rather than dramatizes Gus's passivity; there seem to be pieces missing not only from the character but also from the characterization, as though he's thinner than he's meant to be.

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.

As Studtmann (2007) puts it, Aristotle " assumes rather than defends a posture of realism with respect to the metaphysical structures of the world".