Under this assumption, if more than roughly 42.5 percent of shareholders vote no, the deal will not happen.
"He is assuming that Hispanics will vote for the Hispanic, and that is a good assumption if they vote at all," said the legislator, who is a Democrat.
But there could still have been a lively discussion — without feeding a faulty assumption — if the question had been phrased differently.
In short, a wacky tree hugger, an assumption, if you hear Ms. Miller describing the Conservatory Garden as her third child or referring to the "gloooo-rious" chrysanthemums, you might make.
This is his other central and unquestioned assumption: If you do well in high school and on your SAT's, then you're the best and the brightest and deserve to be among the elite.
It was a reasonable assumption; if I was the health correspondent, or wrote about education, I have no doubt I would have enabled visits to hospitals or schools for foreign hacks wanting to see how things are done here.
Of course, the diary form prevents us from knowing if this is indirect dialogue or the diarist's assumption, if Pinter or Fraser was the one who made the unfortunate mental leap from marriage to murder.
Perhaps you could drain your retirement accounts and sell your home or take out a reverse mortgage to pay for the $800,000 in care that was part of this assumption, if it came to that.
The program, to be announced today, tests the assumption, if not conventional wisdom, that environmentalism and fitness are luxuries of the well-off, inaccessible to a vast number of the nation's working class because of hectic schedules, stretched budgets and bad habits.
From the first day of deliberations — in accordance with the process, called negotiated rulemaking — the parties operated under this assumption: If this balanced group of stakeholders and the government could agree on a standard, then OSHA would publish it in the Federal Register as its proposed rule.
But that is a modern assumption: if we had asked Shakespeare or any of his company what to think about Shylock, we would have been told that it's a great part — giving full scope to human behavior, a mirror held up to nature — but not that he's a sympathetic man.
