Sentence examples for assumed them from inspiring English sources

The behaviouralists claim to understand people as they are, not as economists hitherto assumed them to be.

"In the light of the debt relief initiative for Iraq, a lot of countries are saying 'we also had debts assumed by people that shouldn't have assumed them'.

But are people really the hideous bigots each of these campaigns has assumed them to be? Are British people really, on the whole, intolerant, unwelcoming, and fearful?

In the cold light of day, hedge funds and private equity funds would be revealed as the financial flim-flam artists that many doubters assumed them to be.

He had long assumed them to be an incremental and selective evolutionary change that began with agriculture and the consumption of grains.

But Glyndebourne was his family's legacy, and one day one of his sons (he has four boys by a previous marriage) might assume the responsibilities of running the place as he assumed them from his father, George, who assumed them from his father, John, who dreamed up the whole enchanted gamble of a country opera house after falling for a soprano, Audrey Mildmay.

In doing so, Anthony is assuming them himself.

Why are millennials not as purpose-oriented as many of us assume them to be?

Listeners routinely hailed them as Aunt Etta and Uncle Person, if not mistakenly assuming them to be husband and wife.

Puppets who slip their strings, puppet masters who assume them: Malik and Rushdie, Malik's dolls and Malik.

There's no real evidence that any of these characters are the gender people assume them to be.