Sentence examples for countering assumptions from inspiring English sources

"I like countering assumptions," Ms. Slemmons said in an interview at her studio in Chicago.

She has spent her life countering assumptions, including in the media, that she must be a Muslim.

[Bloomberg News] Countering assumptions, the most thorough study to date on the effects of biofuel production from West Coast forests indicates that it would increase carbon dioxide emissions from those forests by at least 14 percent — and that's if the efficiency of the operations is optimal.

Education of lesbians and their care providers should counter assumptions that sex between women confers no risk for transmission of sexually transmitted infections, and lesbians should receive Pap smears according to current guidelines.

"I think they do a better job of countering the assumptions of the other candidate than fact-checkers".

This high turnover rate will have important implications for the effectiveness of communications and decisions with respect to countering incorrect assumptions among the general public and preventing slips due to improper cleaning practices.

There were also attempts to transform attitudes among policy elites about the beneficiaries of contraception, highlighting the benefits for men, children, low-income families, and the nation at large, countering popular assumptions that contraception is a 'women's issue' (APHRC 2005).

Professors Madigan and Levenson are particularly interested in countering the assumption that resurrection is solely a Christian belief, rather than one deeply rooted in the Judaism from which Jesus emerged.

Countering this assumption, rapid evolutionary dynamics are increasingly documented in biological systems, e.g. in the context of predator prey interactions, species coexistence and invasion.

For years, it was assumed that translational dysfunction early in development was not compatible with life; however, a growing number of rare disease mutations have been identified in translational constituents, countering this assumption (7).

Clearly, a voice of reason and firmness was essential here to counter such assumptions.