In Sydney, Nicola has presumed upon the kindness and care of her niece Iris, like a sick cowbird who beds down in an alien nest.
The digitally remastered re-release of Steven Spielberg's sublime classic after 20 years is a devastating rebuke to anyone who has presumed to patronise this great film-maker.
Outside the Century 21 store, on Church Street, is a seven-year-old Heritage Trail marker -- no one has presumed to take it down -- that eerily refers to the trade center in the present tense.
After a catastrophic visit to a training camp in Pakistan, where they succeed in disgracing themselves utterly, Omar and Waj return gloomily to find that loose-cannon Barry has presumed to make recruitments without clearing it with anyone else.
But Congress has refused to part with it: since its budget of 1997, Congress has presumed that the government would earn $300 million by auctioning off the island in 2002.
But the letter also offered a reminder that the Supreme Court has presumed that acts of Congress are constitutional, and that the executive branch has frequently urged courts to respect the judgments of Congress.
