Sentence examples for assuming rather than from inspiring English sources

Solutionists err by assuming, rather than investigating, the problems they set out to tackle.

The film follows the novel (and many others like it) in assuming, rather than proving, that its hero's selfishness and failure offer clues to the human condition, rather than evidence of individual limitation.

Most of the ethical works of Philodemus are practical in outlook, assuming rather than arguing for the tenets of Epicurean ethical theory, on which they are always founded (Section 2.2.5.1).

Such estimates would have been difficult or impossible with more conventional approaches and would have required assuming rather than estimating the unobserved carriage data.

Even so, specific laws are often assumed rather than predicted.

The six move through their rondelay without credible motive, their various attractions assumed rather than explained.

Here an S1-earthquake (maximum design earthquake) is currently assumed, rather than an S2-earthquake (extreme design earthquake).

The love between Sonny and Carol, which might violate the rules against workplace fraternization, is assumed rather than dramatized.

Charles's practice of writing regularly to ministers was an "innovation", "something he has assumed rather than inherited".

If there was a more political aspect to the Italians' works, it was ambiguous, assumed rather than expressed.

Their positions are simply assumed – rather than widely scrutinised for flaws or contradictions – and politicians and public opinion adjust accordingly.