Greenwald found his youth "disorienting," having assumed that someone willing to risk his future must be near retirement.
(Frankly, I had no idea what a Boston Butt was, having assumed that it came from the rear).
Having assumed that Mr. Bush would win easily among overseas voters, the Gore strategy was predicated on knocking out overseas votes and fighting for the strictest readings of state law.
Having, until very recently, believed in the consensus, the conventional wisdom on these things and, having assumed that this is a given since my late teens, I'm hugely respectful of people who sincerely believe it.
Having assumed that poor people clamored for aid, she was surprised to find that some needed convincing to apply".I come here and I see people who are knowledgeable, normal, well-spoken, well-dressed," she said.
He was buried underneath a gravestone that had borne his name for the entire 53 years of his life, his parents having assumed that he would soon follow his malnourished three-week-old twin sister into the earth.
