Sentence examples for be forgiven for supposing from inspiring English sources

Anyone observing Britain could be forgiven for supposing that's it for our membership of the EU, that the nation represented by the people of Kent, "the Garden of England", had spoken and we must exit.

If a foreigner had tuned in between 10 P.M. and 11 P.M., which was all the major networks showed, he or she could be forgiven for supposing that the G.O.P. was the party of Latino Americans, African Americans, and female Americans.

After a season's worth of sex scandals--Frank Gifford and a flight attendant, Paula Jones and a President, Kelly Flinn and a married soccer coach, any number of (black male) Army officers and (white female) privates, a Kennedy and a babysitter, a mayor linked to a press aide, and the list goes on--you could be forgiven for supposing that we've been riding a bull market for sexual transgression.

But one might be forgiven for supposing, if the wild ride of the last six years is any guide, that there are more surprises in store between now and January.

"Readers of the football clockwatch might be forgiven for supposing I'd be all out of brain vomit by now, but a new Hollywood Anna Karenina, yeah?" says Phil Podolsky.

The stationmaster checks the time as he sips on a cup of milky tea, but anyone could be forgiven for supposing he is waiting for a train that departed decades ago.

The Libyans could have been forgiven for supposing that they had been picked out as a matter of political convenience at a time when the West did not want to offend either Syria or Iran at the start of the Gulf war against Iraq.

Smash isn't going to change the face of television, though anyone bombarded with commercials for it while innocently watching 30 Rock could be forgiven for thinking it was supposed to.

Yet anyone left bruised and battered by their journey to work today could be forgiven for wondering whether the supposed remote working revolution is just a load of hype.

But with potentially growing support in Washington for launching a preventative war against the North, South Koreans could be forgiven for wondering whose interests their supposed American friends have in mind.

As he happens to be president of France, I suppose she can be forgiven for settling down, but I'm dying to ask the new Mme Sarkozy: is cheating on yourself the new black?