The phrase "assuming less" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that you are taking a more cautious or conservative approach in your assumptions or expectations.
Example: "In our analysis, we should focus on the data we have, assuming less about external factors that could influence the results."
Alternatives: "making fewer assumptions" or "taking less for granted."
When rates decline and the investment climate improves, the spread narrows between interest rates on riskier fixed-income investments and safer ones, like Treasuries, as investors demand less premium for assuming less risk.
By assuming less restrictive conditions on the function f, we see that there exist two monotone sequences which converge quadratically to the solution of PBVP (2.1).
The local government preferred a 'wait and see' approach during the early phases of the emergency, assuming less serious impacts from the eruption, which resulted in deferral of UK-funded public housing construction in the north.
"We are listening more, assuming less".
Assuming less load and rolling friction, Raepsaet, in contrast, calculates a maximum pulling force of 27 kN, which would have needed a slightly smaller towing crew.
Sites suitable for further phylogenetic analyses were extracted from the alignments with Gblocks 0.91b assuming less stringent criteria (Castresana 2000).
(Conforming mortgages meet specific guidelines of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which repurchase the loans and resell them to investors. Because lenders assume less risk, interest rates for conforming loans typically have been lower than for nonconforming).
Cinergy simply provides the gateway, the pipes, to consumer's homes and therefore assumes less risk.
ρ can be assumed less than 1 to avoid the singularity.
Hybrid holders assume less risk than equity investors, but often there may be nothing to recover if the venture fails.
I've assumed less capital leverage but still come up with earning power over $20 a share.
