Sentence examples for cannot presume to from inspiring English sources
"One cannot presume to cover the waterfront without a chart.
"I am optimistic that we will be successful, but I cannot presume to know the outcome.
I cannot presume to know what is best for him and his wife.
Where the record is silent, we cannot presume to declare that there is such similarity, or to say that a state is prohibited from making any distinction in the length of time within which suit must be brought.
Would anyone in this day and age dare to say that we cannot presume to know a dog's mind, that a dog cannot tell us if it is happy or sad, frustrated, lonely or bored?
We cannot presume they build nests to have a place in which to lay, hold, incubate, or protect eggs (untestable hypotheses, unlike the first part of this sentence).
One cannot presume a Batman Begins-to -Dark Knight level upsurge in respective opening weekends, although Paramount is probably expecting one for Star Trek 2 next summer.
Primary care initiatives are a viable option for health systems trying to tackle the growing burden of diabetes care but we cannot presume or rely on special interest to improve the quality of care for all patients.
Hydrological and socio-economic evaluations at these levels, or at the basin level, cannot be presumed to be concordant with the differentiation of poverty or livelihood vulnerability at more local levels.
In my discipline, one of the touchstones of the demonstration that textual sources cannot be presumed to be either complete or unedited came from Michel-Rolph Trouillet's book Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.
