Sentence examples for had first assumed from inspiring English sources

When Mubarak had first assumed office, he did more to bring about democracy than most Egyptians thought he would.

But Dr. Tschinkel had first assumed that termites were implicated and went looking for nests of a different species, harvester termites, without success.

Mr. Hyman added that he had first assumed that the stability was because of a mostly elderly population, but that "the biggest surprise to me was there's a lot of kids around".

He had first assumed it as a conscious imposture; it had become habitual to him; the antiquated, worldly-wise moralities which, using that voice, he had found himself obliged to utter, had become his settled opinions.

After the attacks of 22 July last year, many of my Muslim friends would tell me that they, too, had first assumed that these were attacks perpetrated by radical Islamists.

She had first assumed it to be an insect bite, but during the preceding few days the swelling had greatly increased.

We have first assumed that at least one measurement error is positive and then have concluded that the target node position can be found at least inside one ball derived from the measurements.

When I paid a visit to the Davis Middle School, one of Mount Vernon's two junior highs, the principal, Judith Kronin, told me that she had at first assumed that the children would improve their test scores if she assigned more reading and writing exercises.

O'Neill had first of all assumed the global taxpayer would pick up the tab for this extra research and development through easier tax treatment of new antimicrobials.

Sometimes they seem to be placed in difficult, even ungainly, poses, and it is interesting to read in a published interview with the artist that she never places a model in a position that she hasn't first assumed herself.

The impact of the time after recurrence of the ILRR is first assumed to have the functional form mentioned above, i.e. exp (- t -  d)).