Sentence examples for basic assumption was that from inspiring English sources

Gen. Ron Kitrey, said the army's "basic assumption" was that "the year 2001 will be a year of unrest, a year that we have to plan out operations to face the situation of a continuing dispute".

Westmoreland's basic assumption was that U.S. forces, with their enormous and superior firepower, could best be employed in fighting the enemy's strongest units in the jungles and mountains, away from heavily populated areas.

Our basic assumption was that some of the radiation penetrating the solar cell was not converted into electricity.

The basic assumption was that, whereas gods have certain knowledge of visible and invisible events, men have to search for clues and conjectures.

"The basic assumption was that the tide would not go out," says John Lanchester, "and the thing that astonished the world of money and caused the credit crunch - in fact it was the credit crunch - was the fact that the tide went out everywhere simultaneously".

The basic assumption was that in the 800 - 1300 °C temperature range, the most common sensors used in pyrometry are PIN diodes with typical spectral sensitivity characteristics in the spectral range 600 - 1100 nm, as illustrated in Fig. 12 [33–35].

"And the basic assumption is that the pope is a target".

The basic assumption is that one does not have to be sacrificed for the other.

His basic assumption is that there is a single Arab nation stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

The basic assumption is that all art is, to a greater or lesser degree, shaped by other art.

His basic assumption is that the shadow economy works on cash, so more unreported transactions mean greater demand for banknotes.