One's presumption, on learning that Michel Hazanavicius had constructed a black-and-white silent movie, set in the era that it celebrates, was that it would appeal largely, if not solely, to the kind of movie nut who used to get into fistfights about whether the Fredric March version of "A Star is Born" is, or is not, trumped by the James Mason one.
Showing extraordinary focus and quiet certainty, Mr. Obama swept away one political presumption after another to defeat first Hillary Clinton, who wanted to be president so badly that she lost her bearings, and then John McCain, who forsook his principles for a campaign built on anger and fear.
According to some researchers [ 12, 14, 15], the main motivating factor that mobilizes prospective donors is their awareness of the patients' need for blood in combination to one's presumption that one day they may also find themselves in need of blood transfusion.
The first attempts to incorporate marker information into predictions were based on the presumption that one can localize causative mutations underlying genetic variation.
On the one hand, the presumption of septic prosthetic loosening can be ruled out with a negative PET result, since the sensitivity of the test is high.
If a body turned up bearing signs of torture or execution, officials said, even honest detectives moved on to the next case on the presumption that this one could not be solved.
Any action or decision made on a presumption is accepted in law and science as one based on judgement of a provisional situation.
That is a dangerous presumption, one that offers soap to an unwashed public as yet unworthy of his greatness.
"What you're balancing here is a very imperative need to move forward with the process of governing while avoiding any sense of presumption," one adviser said.
