There are scores of gifted food writers, chefs, and broadcasters now working in America — many of them recipients of a James Beard award — but none have has ever assumed the mantle of this tiny group.
"But it's just fallacious to claim that those who ordered and led the 2003 Iraq war lacked access to the necessary information about the complexities of that country's ethnic and religious divisions, or could have ever assumed that they could complete their intervention without rekindling religious bloodshed".
But because I'm a man, few people have ever assumed that my choice to engage in sex work was anything other than a choice – that is, until the US government rounded up the staff at Rentboy.com, claiming that they were an "internet brothel" exploiting poor, stupid sex workers like me.
Poor Monica Seles, with every step she took, ended in a position that no human being has ever willingly assumed.
He made no claim to originality: 'Pragmatism represents a perfectly familiar attitude in philosophy, the empiricist attitude', although he acknowledged that it did so 'in a more radical and in a less objectionable form than it has ever yet assumed' (1907: 31).
At the end of Pete's solo acoustic guitar version of Cole Porter's "Begin The Beguine", Ben turned to me with misty eyes and huskily declared, "That's the best song Pete has ever written!" Assuming he'd sung all the songs, written all the songs, played all the guitar, I wrote him a radioactively glowing review, duh, huh.
"What was the saddest part of it for me was that this had had happened to a lot of businesses but because no one had ever said anything we all just assumed (and myself included) we just assumed we were bad business people.
Although no woman had ever served as Habsburg ruler, most assumed at the time that the succession would pose few problems because of Charles VI's diligent efforts to gain recognition for her.
Something stirs in William when Miller tells him about a time he was trapping beaver in Colorado and stumbled upon a massive herd of buffalo in a valley that Miller assumed no man had ever seen before.
