Sentence examples for presumption has been from inspiring English sources

The presumption has been that they will actually help reduce the serious health problems, like heart disease, that are associated with obesity.

"The presumption has been loosely that elite fliers at least had the experience to know what the drill is in an emergency, which is basically that you have to be prepared to get that door popped open," said Joe Brancatelli, who publishes the subscription business-travel Web site Joesentme.com.com

For over fifty years the common presumption has been that computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and experimental fluid dynamics (EFD) were mutually exclusive and competitive.

Until now the presumption has been that cutting down the trees near a dam actually increased the amount of water flowing into the dams.

The presumption has been made that the mechanism of the Cd II) effect consists in selective adsorption of Cdad on faces of PbSe crystals and inhibition of underpotential deposition of Pbad.

The general presumption has been that minimum-wage effects on total employment are so small that there is little need to focus on this measure as an outcome variable, hence the focus of minimum wage studies on low-wage markets such as those for teens and restaurant workers.

The presumption had been that the lieutenant governor must also give voters the chance to select a replacement.

If the Tsarnaevs had managed to carry out a gun massacre unharmed and escaped, their identities unknown, would the first presumption have been that the shooters were Islamic extremists?

Lisa P. Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator, said in an interview that she had reversed the ruling by her predecessor, Stephen L. Johnson, because the traditional presumption had been that California, with its history of air pollution, had grounds to establish rules that exceed federal requirements.

The presumptions have been gloomy, verging on alarmist, as they so often are when the talk is of Russia.

It's a presumption that has been borne out in police misconduct trials time and again.