Sentence examples for given up assuming from inspiring English sources

I've given up assuming that politicians will stop cheating for fear of the inevitable electronic trail, but maybe they will stop seeing marriage as a prerequisite for a successful campaign.

Then, with no options left, Mr. Kline gave up, assuming he had heard the last of the matter.

After an hour or so at the new bar, the friends gave up, assuming Mr. Fisher had changed his mind about joining them.

What justifies the decision is the practical necessity and importance of reassuring the citizens of the United States and the world at large that the United States had not given up the role it assumed after World War II as the chief proponent of the rule of law worldwide.

Now, with a democratic government in place — apartheid in South Africa ended officially in the early 1990s — they have given up their outlaw status to assume their longed-for roles as respectable, even honored, members of an integrated society.

NOTE: At this point I've given up including [sic], but just assume that any spelling errors aren't my fault.

Morsi, who holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Southern California and spent time teaching in the LA area and doing some work for NASA, announced in advance of the vote that he had given up the dictatorial powers he assumed right after brokering last month's Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

By that point, he recalls, his wife assumed he had given up the ghost and was out looking for a regular job.

Men are considered distinguished when their hair turns gray; women are assumed to have given up caring about their appearance.

† Mothers who did not take part in any follow-ups were assumed not to have taken any action to help their husbands to give up.

"She assumed that I'd given up on things".