Sentence examples for instead of presuming from inspiring English sources

"Be quiet and listen instead of presuming or assuming".

Theories and descriptions of hypothetical stages of evolution generally, and of unilinear evolution specifically, were heavily criticized as racist; instead of presuming that some peoples were more evolved than others, the new trend was to regard all cultures as unique in time and place.

Instead of presuming that secret motivations for buying detergent lurked in the traumatised subconscious, it seemed safer and wiser to study behaviour and create mathematical models based on income and geography.Meanwhile the development of the cognitive sciences from the late 1950s through to the 1970s offered new empirical methods for considering such things as memory and problem-solving.

Instead of presuming a multi-level perspective, transition studies could analyse the multi-actor politics of translations in arenas of development.

So instead of presuming cyberthreats are stopped purely by building bigger and better "walls," Darktrace claims to mimic the human immune system by accepting that bad stuff will get in but, powered by the company's "advanced mathematics and machine learning techniques," the resulting harm can be stopped in its tracks.

Ask if you can wipe or dab the mouth when food is stuck around the mouth, instead of just presuming.

The instrument may simply measure the devastating consequences of any form of pain instead of the presumed hypothesis.

They win the competition by building an airplane instead of the presumed go-cart and, in doing so, underscore the educational benefits of the 4Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.

More reserved members of the Council asked for the land reform law not to be applied for a duration of three years, instead of the presumed April 1865 deadline, and Cuza agreed.

This week's once-a-decade White House Conference on Aging troubled me for a number of reasons, prime among them was about how the conversation seemed to skirt the biggest issue facing us: how to change our culture so that "old age" is a time of productivity and activity instead of being presumed dead-while-still-breathing.

We consider intervals of alternatives with single-peaked preferences instead, and presume positive correlation of local voters.