Sentence examples for peculiar assumption from inspiring English sources

Then, too, there's the peculiar assumption that 60 Minutes, once the crème de la crème of television news, and among the most august (and sonorous) voices of authority in the US, was still a great establishment pinnacle worthy and ready for a takedown.

The peculiar assumption behind this claim is that landscape and habitat which has taken centuries to evolve can be created in an entirely new setting – that plants, insects and birds can be imported as if they were being introduced into a suburban garden for a TV makeover programme.

Even under the peculiar assumptions of the Feldstein-Samwick paper, the stuff that is supposed to save Social Security -- higher revenue, redemptions of personal accounts that cut the system's outlays -- comes far in the future.

I bought it in London in 1975,' he'll say with that peculiar Nigerian assumption that anything purchased abroad is superior.

(b.4) Socrates provides a seemingly more palatable alternative in the Ion, one that is echoed in the Phaedrus (245a); this is the "peculiar, saving assumption" mentioned above.

Essentially, he attempts to show that Ion is committed to several theses that are not compatible with one another, unless a rather peculiar, saving assumption is introduced.

But even if Fuller is right in his unargued assumption, the "peculiar quality" whose existence he doubts is a familiar feature of many moral practices.

To propose the basic assumption, we illustrate peculiar properties of the degenerate nonlinear viscosity term.

The former case involves the assumption that the supposedly peculiar pygidium of P. dumerilii may have arisen in evolutionary history by the fusion of the ancestral non-segmental annelid pygidium and a reduced body segment.

After all, your assumptions will surely look peculiar: a continuum of goods all with identical production functions, entering symmetrically into utility?

The selective imitation task crucially rests on the assumption that a nonpreferred or peculiar action is copied (imitated) only in a causally opaque situation, that is no constraints were present to explain the demonstrator's ineffective choice.