Sentence examples for lack of presumption from inspiring English sources

Such was Hepburn's lack of presumption that when Beauchamp asked to photograph her, she declined, explaining that she couldn't afford it.

So his own big speech in Cairo stressed that America "does not presume to know what is best for everyone".That lack of presumption, the neocons now say, was a grave mistake.

That lack of presumption goes beyond gender.

I've spoken out, marched and organized against the lack of a presumption of innocence granted to Tamir Rice, Kalief Browder, Stephon Clark, Chikesia Clemons.

A lack of these presumptions may force modelers to choose linear over non-linear models to minimize the number of parameters to estimate and reduce the search space.

These revelations demonstrate that, even in our age of bioethics and awareness of the wrongs of medical experimentation, we are not immune from the conditions that facilitated compulsory sterilization in the mid-20th century: lack of institutional oversight, presumptions that certain members of society are not "fit" to reproduce, and overzealous and biased physicians.

I wandered around arguing with myself in this vein for a while, then decided that what was confusing me was the presumption, for lack of a better word.

Across this mountainous country, there is relatively little campaign activity, reflecting fears about security, the candidates' lack of money and experience, the presumption that President Hamid Karzai will win and a tribal society in which elders broker deals for blocs of votes.

This advice is based upon the presumption that lack of conception despite evidence of ovulation may be due to anti-estrogenic effects of CC on the endometrium.

And, again, his picture of her corruption was made stranger by his presumption of her lack of real agency or original ideas: "Hillary Clinton is merely a vessel for those global special interests trying to strip our country of its wealth, its jobs, its status" — he emphasized that word — "as a sovereign nation".

"That would be the height of presumption.