Sentence examples for our presumption that from inspiring English sources

Two months to go and we're rethinking our presumption that the Republican primary voters picked the most stable option.

In "On the Origin of Species," published in the fall of 1859, Darwin heaped scorn on the catastrophist approach: So profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world.

Rather grim and earnest and puritanical not to read with the heart and the mind, I say … When we read sympathetically and attentively – giving over our presumption that we are here somehow to condescend or should tell the author that we know better – these books (quite powerfully) remind us that our contemporary reading experiences carry with them a certain relative poverty".

Our presumption that with larger numbers of nanoparticles, spherical cluster is created which leads to the supposition that at very high concentrations of particles, spherically structured aggregates only attach to each other, without changing their structure.

We laughed at our presumption that our son would have some big moment during Pride, this first Pride after telling us he was gay.

The result confirmed, once more, our presumption that the isolated DNA was Lolium cpDNA and it enabled us to assemble the entire chloroplast genome of L. perenne.

Östlund's films are nasty, funny dramas that deal in skewed self-image and challenge our presumptions that we're rational and civilised.

The visitor is not faced with a presumption that "our" past is being told, nor is its narrative like the typical American one, showing how a people finally "made it" within the larger society.

Sometimes he writes like a poet: We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Many conservatives assume that liberals view conservatives as unsophisticated bigots, a presumption that clearly impedes our efforts to persuade.

Although the state faces a budget deficit of more than 25percentt in the coming year, Tom Epstein, a spokesman for Blue Shield, said that "our presumption is that a new tax dedicated to this purpose would have wide political support".