And then the field trip was over: thousands of fans filed into the lobby, where Rev. Ike's words of wisdom hung, and then into the streets to head (one presumes) back downtown or back to Brooklyn, making a night commute that will become more common in the coming months.
To crush the rebels, the Khartoum government has given an Arab militia, the janjaweed, a licence to rape, murder and terrorise black Africans in Darfur, who are presumed to back the rebels.
To crush the rebels, the government in Khartoum, the capital, has given an Arab militia, the janjaweed, a licence to rape, murder and terrorise black Africans in Darfur, who are presumed to back the rebels.
A list of Mr. Obama's top fund-raisers released Sunday showed the extent to which the Democratic Party establishment, once presumed to back Mrs. Clinton, has become more fragmented and drifted into her rival's camp, lending the early stages of the Democratic primary campaign the feeling of a family feud.
When it comes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the presumed government backing is called an "implicit guarantee".
As Ms. Dickerman notes in her catalog essay, "The incongruous alliance of financiers and leftist artists points to the way that in the 1930s capitalism and communism intertwined in far less antipodal ways than might be presumed looking back through the lens of the cold war".
(Until the Kiryat Malachi incident, no Israeli had been killed this year by a rocket or missile fired from Gaza).That is one reason why Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, more cautious than is often presumed, held back from ordering a ground attack and occupation, despite the call-up of 75,000 reservists and the massing of tanks, artillery and infantry on the border with Gaza.
In it, the speaker tells of how the heady scent of a cup of almond tea takes her (we presume her) back with a Proustian jerk to "the yellow time / of trouble, with blood tests, and cellular madness, and my presence required // on the slab for surgery".
The presumed sighting led back to a massage therapist who had seen some Hispanic children in the center's day care and thought they might be orphans.
The shock was not merely that Bowie – long since presumed retired – was back, with an album, The Next Day, to follow in March; it was that one of the biggest stars in the history of rock music had managed to spend two years making a record without even a hint of rumour reaching the wider world.
