Sentence examples for collective assumptions from inspiring English sources

We have intense conversations in my house about apportioning responsibility, because neither my husband nor I wants to assume roles based on messed-up collective assumptions about gender dynamics.

The descriptions of events in Oregon appear to reflect the usual shape of our collective assumptions about the relationship between race and guilt — or religion and violent extremism — in the United States.

In spite of all collective assumptions and wishes to the contrary, youthfulness has nothing whatsoever to do with looking younger than one's actual age.

The state was bankrupt, the economy was collapsing, the political class was discredited, the governing institutions were in chaos and the people were demoralised by the evaporation of the collective assumptions that had underpinned their society for 40 years.

Given the history of our nation, the pervasive ways that we are taught to associate whiteness with innocence and blackness with criminality, we need to shift our collective assumptions about racial bias in the entire judicial system, including legal education.

What's so lame about this is that it reaffirms the most dangerous of collective assumptions in the political process: that democracy is not a live, fluxing collective of thoughts to be interacted with freely by everyone, but an intimidating concept which is rationed to a bemused public by qualified commentators.

Until very recently, our collective assumption was that oil was running out.

Pilots have a big job to do, and they often overexplain characters and situations; let's hope that these new "Twilight Zone -like series will cast off their collective assumption that the TV audience suffers from intelligence-deficit disorder — I don't think I have ever seen so many captions telling us where we are, and when.

We'd replace a collective assumption of value with... the collective assumption of value.

Historical experience, which formulates perceptions, serves among other things to enhance the sense of identity of "who we really are," a formative collective assumption that sits at the bedrock of both key players and drives functional and dysfunctional behavior.

But Zionism has always focused on the collective, its assumption being that national redemption would also promote personal redemption.