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The phrase "assumed that it could" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a belief or expectation regarding the potential of something to happen or to be true.
Example: "She assumed that it could be completed by the deadline, but unforeseen circumstances arose."
Alternatives: "believed it was possible" or "expected that it might".
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In Egypt, Iran's leadership -- both spiritual and political -- assumed that it could claim that the youth's revolution mirrored its own Islamic Revolution.
You can see why a lot of people assumed that it could never work.
"Would a baby take care of itself if we assumed that it could?" "Oh, my goodness!" Cora says.
The court said that "without considering the issue at all," the E.P.A. assumed that it could consider only the parts of the Scherer plant that Oglethorpe owned and disregard the other parts, which are the polluters.
The trial judge, Mr Justice Saunders, asked her to clarify whether she was saying that she had thought about the source and assumed that it could not be a public official or whether she was saying that it had never occurred to her that the source might be a public official.
Up to now, China seems to have assumed that it could do separate deals with the Taliban and their allies to exclude Uighur militants, and that it may be able to do the same kind of deal to defend the Aynak mine.
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The lack of explicit criticism from the United States did nothing to dispel the impression that the White House, after discouraging Israel from assuming that it could embrace the Bush doctrine in its battle against Palestinian extremists, was now doing nothing to stop Israel from doing so.
Exxon lost $200 million on its office automation business by implicitly assuming that it could build a direct sales and service support capability to compete head-to-head with IBM and Xerox.
But there are reasons to assume that it could continue as it is or deteriorate further.
So high are the stakes, it seemed sane to assume that it could.
We refer to the former as a service overlay network (SON), and assume that it could be connected to the Internet.
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