Traditional water planning and management assume inevitable, continuing, lockstep growth in demand for water as populations and economies expand.
Negative stereotypes of ageing assume inevitable physical decline, reflected by incapability, frailty, weakness, sickness, helplessness and dependency.
Naturally, one assumes its inevitable, fiery demise.
Interestingly, most writing on the benefits of failure assumes an inevitable payoff with future success (like Thomas Edison inventing the lightbulb after 1,000 attempts).
In Crown of Thistles, Linda Porter tells the backstories of England and Scotland as they head towards a union which we often assume was inevitable.
But can we cut her some slack for a moment please, as she steels herself up to assume her inevitable position as Public Enemy Number 1, post the announcement of her break-up from Sir Paul?
The PSOE and the UGT were based on a simple form of Marxism, one that assumed an inevitable revolution, and were isolationist in character.
It also assumes that the inevitable recession in Europe and the expected slowdown in China will be shallow and pose no real threat to the United States recovery.
In the current irrational frenzy they are the ones being accused of wanting a "core-vote strategy", one that assumes defeat is inevitable, when they are virtually the only members of the cabinet who believe they can win.
As for marriage and children, he always assumed they were inevitable.
