Carlos's older brother, Andy Anderson Ramon Carelala – was a drug dealer, and the neighborhood guys more or less assumed that Carlos would follow in his brother's footsteps.
Up until the middle of the last century, it was more or less assumed that the underlying consensus in America was some form of Protestant Christianity.
Even longtime admirers of Richter's work, including me, have more or less assumed that it speaks to arcane, insider concerns and tastes.
I also more or less assumed that the thunder and the lightning that day were Creation tipping its hat to him, as if to say, Glad to see you here in the stands, Reverend — or maybe, Why, Reverend, what in this grieving world are you doing here at a sporting event?
When a woman says she is single by choice, it's more or less assumed that she is not respectable.
I had always more or less assumed that everyone in the world was consumed with murderous rages and fits of physical loathing so strong they left you exhausted.
I know, I know: If you live in Colorado and consider yourself active, it's more or less assumed that you love mountain biking, right?
Individual candidates don't have to endorse all of the positions described by the platform, but the guys who wrote it are important party officials and you can more or less assume that it represents "normal" Republican views.
Nor is Cathie Black some sort of doctrinaire feminist -- though she was at Ms. magazine in the years when it was more or less assumed that its employees burned their bras and braided their underarm hair.
Transitivity more or less assumes that patients could be randomized to any of the treatment arms in the network.
