Sentence examples for first presumption from inspiring English sources

If the Tsarnaevs had managed to carry out a gun massacre unharmed and escaped, their identities unknown, would the first presumption have been that the shooters were Islamic extremists?

This first presumption is tempered by a second: namely, that the bio-cultural groupings of peoples African and of African descent are not homogeneous, racially or otherwise, neither individually nor collectively, but are constituted by differences and dissimilarities as well as by similarities and commonalties.

The first presumption is that knowledgeable clinicians will apply similar and reasonable criteria to diagnose ARDS.

This third presumption in particular implied a collective failing towards every child and adolescent at the school.

A third presumption: Africana philosophy should not be regarded as normatively prescriptive for philosophers identified as African or of African descent, as setting requirements for what their philosophizing must have been, or must be, about and to what ends because of their racial/ethnic identities.

Had the King LT® been placed first the presumption is that it too would have failed (case 3 failure).

This year's Edinburgh was also a chance to catch up with some more established companies, including Uninvited Guests, whose It Is Like It Ought to Be: A Pastoral was a real highlight of the festival, as was Filter's Twelfth Night and Third Angel's Presumption.

He tends to reserve the trademark sneer, loaded first question and presumption of guilt for members of parliament and ministers – even those who, truth be told, wield only the most modest modicum of influence.

Members of his African politics tutorial group, a motley band, were rounded up and the women put in to bat first, on the presumption they would be speedily dispatched to the pavilion.

Fine, except that it was Germany's export dependency and manufacturing bent that made its economy so vulnerable in the first place.The presumption that what is good for exports is good for the economy partly explains why consumer spending in Germany has historically been weak.

I first encountered this presumption in a Project Love workshop I gave a few years ago to teen leaders of ten suburban high schools in Cleveland.