Sentence examples for assuming the idea from inspiring English sources

California is moving toward becoming the first state to require companies to have women on their boards –assuming the idea could survive a likely court challenge.

It was an inspiring speech, assuming the idea was to inspire pity rather than patriotism.

Well, no, because I assume the idea of buttering your scone first is an urban myth.

No one has told me to go home for 16 years, and I assumed the idea had been forgotten.

But that assumes the idea is seriously discussed and that he gets through his trial in Dusseldorf.

When I first proposed this column as a monthly glimpse at the doctoral experience, I assumed the idea was so original it would make my editor's eyeballs extend out of their sockets on stalks.

After two months silence, Dr. Collins and Dr. Varmus wrote on Feb. 28 to Celera that they would assume the idea of cooperation was dead unless they heard from Celera by March 6.

I'd always assumed the idea was that if you gently loosened your muscles by stretching, then you wouldn't suddenly pull a hamstring when you ran for a bus or leapt a puddle.

But even if we assume the idea of public reason is coherent, we can plausibly ask why we ought to accept this idea, that is, what is the basis for adopting public reason as the relevant standard to evaluate rules and to govern individual conduct?

"While there have been numerous demonstrations in recent years that the human brain and nervous system may not be as fixed and irreparable as is typically assumed, the idea that brain death could be easily reversed seems very far-fetched," Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist at the United Kingdom's Cardiff University, told The Telegraph.

I'm assuming the NHL got the idea from that TV commercial where the guys in the bar want overtime.