People with the disease are commonly assumed to have brought it upon themselves by smoking.
At 39¼ Adrian is not, strictly speaking, in that red zone of life: commonly assumed to be a man's late 60s onwards.
There hasn't been a confirmed sighting of the ivory bill for more than half a century, and it has been commonly assumed to be extinct.
In addition to concerns about the effect on neighborhoods, some opponents worry about repercussions for school districts, because elderly voters are commonly assumed to oppose school budgets.
Reason is commonly assumed to be conscious; disembodied; dispassionate; literal (fits the world directly); logical (leads from facts to correct conclusions); universal; and self-interested.
Second, human rights are commonly assumed to refer, in some vague sense, to "fundamental," as distinct from "nonessential," claims or "goods".
Thus, 35 years ago, when he compiled "Equality of Educational Opportunity," Coleman naturally measured the resources that were easy to measure and that were commonly assumed to matter -- physics labs, academic curricula, teacher qualifications and so forth.
Mr. Krause will play Quentin, the tortured lawyer who is usually considered a stand-in for Mr. Miller in this play, commonly assumed to be based on his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.
You may lament that Wharton's work is still commonly assumed to be as dated as the hats she wore, or that several generations of high-school graduates know her chiefly through her frosty minor novel "Ethan Frome".
Spike trains, on the other hand, are commonly assumed to follow similarly irregular dynamics across neocortex.
Canopy-forming bioengineer species are commonly assumed to increase local species richness and diversity.
