Sentence examples for dominant presumption from inspiring English sources
His comments, although posed in the form of questions, are a challenge to current family justice policies and the dominant presumption, particularly since the Baby P scandal, that more children should be taken out of homes where they may be exposed to violence.
Always, however, the dominant presumption was towards the positive.
The world has changed; just as classic-era Hollywood, with its unchallenged prejudices on matters of ethnicity and gender, reflected the dominant presumptions and exclusions of the time, so the endurance of suffering during a rough-and-tumble period when many more Americans did physically hard and dangerous work found its reflection in a comedy of danger.
The FCC skewed its presentation of the data in a way that bolsters its presumption that telephone companies are dominant in the market for business data services.
Therein lies a maddening irony: our top colleges and universities expend unimaginable sums of money per student to supply the very best academic resources American higher education has to offer while admitting scores of students who — by virtue of their own presumption or, in some cases, the dominant peer culture — regard using said resources as an indication of deficiency.
Understanding the unfamiliar requires a different mentality: rather than superiority, hubris and presumption, which have I think been the dominant Western attitudes towards China, we'll need respect, humility and modesty.
"Don't do as we do; just do as we say!" The sheer presumption that the U.S. economy today still occupies the dominant position that it did in 1945 must have made serious Europeans shake their heads, and the Chinese giggle.
Together, the proof of dominant market share and the existence of a substantial barrier to effective entry create the presumption that Microsoft enjoys monopoly power.
Revisions might include dismissing the presumption that nonhorizontal mergers are pro-competitive, paying special attention to acquisitions by dominant firms, and placing the burden of proof on the merging parties to demonstrate pro-consumer effects.
The FCC based this presumption on its determination, made in its first competitive carrier order issued in 1980, that incumbent telcos were dominant providers of special access services, because incumbent telcos then served approximately 92% of the market for special access services.
