Sentence examples for our operating assumption from inspiring English sources

Until they get more evidence, says Aylward, "our operating assumption is that [the shootings] may be related, and that affects how we approach security".

"Our operating assumption is that he is dead," the official said.

"Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast," an official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The New Yorker.

But going forward, it would be wise for all of his inveterate critics in the news media, including me, to treat it as our operating assumption.

Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA's Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, "Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast".

Perhaps no line in the entire six-thousand-word piece attracted as much attention as this declaration by Kenneth Murphy, head of the FEMA division responsible for Cascadia: "Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast".

"We were going to go after the people responsible for the attacks, and the operating assumption was that we would capture a significant number of Al Qaeda operatives," said Pierre-Richard Prosper, the State Department official assigned to lead the group.

At least, that appears to be the operating assumption.

"The operating assumption is Rivera is five years younger, Rivera's the follower.

That, anyway, is an operating assumption behind much of the discussion of social welfare programs.

Now, the operating assumption is that we can blame teachers for students' poor academic performance.