One might cavil at Mr. Duijker's consistently upbeat comments on the wines of the 2,000 chateaus, but since there are said to be 9,000 chateaus in the Bordeaux region, one has to assume he left out the ones he didn't like.
His replacement, assuming he's leaving, should be someone who tries harder to keep the promises Obama made as a candidate in 2008.
Mr. Craig has been treated politely but coolly by his colleagues since his return, with many of them assuming he would leave if the court rejected his effort to withdraw his plea, which was considered likely from the beginning.
Nothing concrete had developed by the time the professor offered him the postdoc, so Owen accepted the position, assuming he could leave when something better came along.
Ivan V. Fedoseyev, 76, their next-door neighbor, noticed that Mr. Skripal was gone and assumed he had left his wife, Lyudmila, for another woman.
Although I assumed he'd left the building, I decided to double check.
A disappointed Michael finds a glove he assumes she left behind and takes it, hoping she will come back for it.
When the board of Children's Place ousted its chief executive, Ezra Dabah, several weeks ago over supposed violations of the company's code of conduct, the clothing retailer assumed he would leave quietly.
Friday and assumed he'd leave at some point that night.
Commenting on the situation, a source close to Stevens said "Brad doesn't understand why people would assume he's leaving".
When he assumed office, he left the program untouched on "Day One" and side-stepped it when issuing an executive order in January that ramped up deportation efforts.
