I just don't like the assumption that everyone wants areas to develop the same way.
"They certainly don't speak for me," he said of the NRA, "and I don't like the assumption that because I'm a hunter I'm against any kind of gun control and against even talking about gun control".
Equally, I quite liked the assumption from ignorant southerners that I was working class because I said bath instead of baaarth.
In past Republican campaigns, state and county organizations were free to assemble their local efforts any way they liked, the assumption being that they knew more about their own communities than someone in Washington.
Of course, not all vegetarians fit the pretentious stereotype, and they understandably don't like the constant assumptions.
But I don't like the apparent assumption that women without children do not have "an intensity of life experiences, jammed with joys and fears, unpredictability and intimacy, all outside the workplace" unless they can prove otherwise.
To feel that you lack power is to believe that none of your actions has any consequence – which means, perversely, that you give yourself the licence to do what you like, on the assumption that it doesn't matter.
It also debunks popular myths, like the assumption that the area is a monolithic Democratic stronghold.
The British do not like the assumption that God is only on one side of a debate, nor the assumption that morality belongs to one side only.
The Venice show had the advantage that visitors could also see close at hand many of Titian's greatest paintings still in situ, including key works like "The Assumption of the Virgin".
