Sentence examples for hardly assume from inspiring English sources
"They could hardly assume that role without actually passing a freedom of information law and moving into the 21st century on the issue of transparency," said Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst at the National Security Archive, a Washington-based group that works with declassified documents.
The Pentagon and Energy Department agencies that try to detect fissile material at foreign ports are actually quite well financed and efficient, but given the size of the globe, the number of nations producing nuclear material and the political barriers inherent in working in another nation's territory, we can hardly assume these efforts are a solid defense of our homeland.
Ryan — like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — could hardly assume a position in immediate opposition to a President of his Party, and the leaders of the Republicans in Congress decided to muffle their misgivings and moments of revulsion in service of their conservative agenda: tax cuts, "repeal and replace," and a generalized rollback of the Obama years.
Local governments can hardly assume these tasks either.
We can hardly assume that presidential action is a sure thing.
However, given the high representation of these functional categories in C. trachomatis genome, we can hardly assume that specific metabolic functions underlie the higher clinical prevalence of strains from serovars E and F. Nevertheless, it seems clear that these serovars share a singular genomic makeup.
BERLIN — When 32-year-old German teacher and academic book author Bahar Aslan took to Twitter last week to accuse authorities of not doing enough to investigate an alleged xenophobic murder potentially committed by police officers, she hardly assumed that in doing so she would soon be accused of having broken the law, too.
At least eight abductees are unaccounted for, and North Korea only made things worse last November when it returned what it claimed were the remains of two victims, only to be contradicted by DNA tests in Japan.North Korea, unapologetic as ever, hardly assumed a low profile for the match.
Given that the UK was part of the EU, and also linked by other busy immigration routes to its vast former empire, and to the US, a stable or falling population, as had existed throughout the 1970s – a period of perceived British decline that Thatcher had noisily promised to reverse – could hardly be assumed.
But while the Dominican pianist Michel Camilo, at 58, is the seasoned elder here, it should hardly be assumed that his headlining set will feel less youthful: consult his most recent album, "Mano a Mano" (Decca/Emarcy), for proof of his enduring effervescence.
In general, such fragile states can hardly be assumed to comply with international norms for labour safety or environmental protection.
