The narration is driven by assumptions about natural selection and what separates humans from animals.
Our existing models for predicting the impact of biofuels are inexact and often driven by assumptions.
Our laws, too, are shaped by assumptions about the economic impact of immigration.
I don't know why different editors modernise different words: perhaps they're guided by assumptions about their readers' understanding.
My guess is that liberals are sometimes deceived by assumptions about the scope of liberalising moral progress.
Hampered by assumptions about her slight build and seeming fragility, Tang constantly has to prove herself to both the public and her fellow cops.
But pension-fund balances are influenced not only by assumptions about life expectancy but also by actual investment returns and the current cost of future liabilities.
That step would be determined by assumptions used in the Obama administration's 2014 budget proposal, due early next year, and not the auditor's report.
Still, where'er he wandered, Nigger found his Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness obstructed by assumptions, expectations and misperceptions shaped by Jefferson's Notes.
This example illustrates that applications of probability theory to the physical world are facilitated by assumptions that are not strictly true, although they should be approximately true.
Then he could safely read the reports of others without having his own views influenced by assumptions that he might find difficult to throw off.
