Sentence examples for like presumption from inspiring English sources

It may seem like presumption on my part to have considered the possibility, but it doesn't matter how old you are, how intelligent you are, or how philosophical - or how much you tell yourself that the Man Booker Prize is, as Julian Barnes once memorably put it, "posh bingo".

Does "Lock her up" sound like presumption of innocence?

White scholars in African-American studies can face their own charges of Miss Anne-like presumption.

Mr Raab would like a presumption in favour of asset freezes and UK visa bans for officials of the Russian state and other countries where there was evidence linking them to such abuses.

The Securities Industry Association, its lobby, issued a letter signed by current or former top executives at 15 major firms blasting the proposal for providing special privileges to rating agencies and the media (to which companies can disclose anything they like, on the presumption that they are conduits to the public).

What was once a daydream stance has become something like a presumption.

He said they provided for considerations like the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

The council said the proposal was contrary to French constitutional principles, like the presumption of innocence and freedom of speech.

Russia instituted a new criminal code last week that introduced habeas corpus and other fundamental concepts of justice, like the presumption of innocence.

But Commonwealth countries have not always offered an open environment; among the things they learned from British mentors along with ideals like the presumption of innocence was how to protect the profession from pesky competitors.

Approaches that punish the homeless, like a presumption against bail if you have no fixed address, are unlikely to be wound back soon and fall disproportionately on Indigenous Australians.