Sentence examples for is usually supposed from inspiring English sources

New York is much older than is usually supposed.

If the euro area's GDP were measured in the same way as America's, its annual growth rate might be up to half a percentage point higher (see article).That is no small matter, especially since the gap between America's and Europe's productivity growth is narrower than is usually supposed.

The theory was first proposed in 1960 by British biologist Sir Alister Hardy, who believed apes descended from the trees to live, not on the savannah as is usually supposed, but in flooded creeks, river banks and sea shores, some of Earth's richest sources of food.

There are times when the rabona can seem like an unnecessary trick, the domain of players who are so one-footed that they will go to absurd lengths not to use the foot that is usually supposed to do nothing more than not fall off – it is debatable whether André Ayew needed to do one.

Nevertheless, fatigue strength is usually supposed to guarantee in-service integrity face to variable amplitude loading.

Hence, we suggest that apes and man have a more recent common ancestry than is usually supposed.

It's about placing writing and language somewhere other than they're usually supposed to go".

In rejecting exemplary damages, Eady said: "They bring the notion of punishment into civil litigation when damages are usually supposed to be about compensation".

Customers buying from an out-of-state retailer are usually supposed to volunteer a "use" tax on the value of that good.

Although wildly imprecise, his reasoning was legitimate and his point well taken: the Earth was far older than was usually supposed by his contemporaries, and, therefore, "What an infinite number of generations... must have succeeded each other in the long roll of years!" Such an argument was crucial in accounting for the necessarily slow pace of his "descent with modification".

Without loss of generality, the mechanical parameters of the pantograph mechanism model (Fig. 1) are usually supposed to be constant and known.