Sentence examples for held assumption from inspiring English sources

The local election results kill off what had been, until recently, a widely held assumption.

It is a commonly held assumption that Americans don't like to read authors who write in languages they don't understand.

The roots of this issue lie in the deeply held assumption of the beneficial quality of French civilisation for humankind.

She says this very firmly, as if countering a wrong but widely held assumption about 55-year-olds in general.

The widely held assumption that people would volunteer for AIDS-tests in droves once treatment became available was wrong.

The goal of ensuring adequate nutrition could easily be missed because of a commonly held assumption that hunger and nutrition are the same thing.

These findings provide some of the first experimental evidence to support the long-held assumption that wild herbivores compete with cattle for food.

One long-held assumption — that Americans have bad memories of dirty, smoky, unreliable diesels of the '70s and '80s — isn't supported by current research, automakers say.

The long-held assumption is that being overweight probably means you're not in the best shape.

The conditions are upsetting the long-held assumption that used cars are always better deals than new ones.

But ethically, the new surveillance tools seem to puncture a long-held assumption that it is possible -- and often desirable -- to lose oneself in the crowd.