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Each of them is entitled to the same presumptions and due process rights which are extended to any citizen in these sad circumstances," the statement said.
I wonder whether, having made the film, you feel closer to Nim or further away.We all project onto each other presumptions and expectations, motives that we do or do not have.
He was, he said, "shocked by presumptions of his guilt".The problems experienced by Airbus's new super-jumbo do not threaten the survival of the company, although they are a serious setback.
So you should not prejudge an outcome based on your presumptions about the prime minister's supposed "dependence on the generals".
Microsoft's cross-licences, therefore, are "an effort to portray Microsoft as the protector of intellectual property, while portraying the open-source patent picture as very murky," says Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a consultancy that watches the firm closely.Microsoft, sick of being second-guessed and always considered the bad guy, bristles at such presumptions.
If the new France that she promises were to phase out the "vous" form altogether, at least this would rescue foreigners like myself from frequent gaffes as well as unfounded presumptions of intimacy.
Russian bureaux de change have placed orders for electronic signs with three digits before the decimal point, preparing for rouble-euro exchange rates above 100.The past 15 years of rising oil prices have underwritten Kremlin presumptions of economic stability, even leading to talk of the rouble becoming a reserve currency for other former Soviet republics.
Lydia isn't quite right in her presumptions (I'm trying not to spoil the plot here), and the actual story turns out to be a little less spectacular or surprising than its early promise.
Faced with the "blooming, buzzing confusion" of the real world, policymakers often fall back on the highest-order principles and the broadest presumptions.
First, by educating decision makers about uncertainty in the world and helping them to understand and challenge their own presumptions.
Union leaders reckon that 70% of their new recruits now come from card-check campaigns.The unions' counter-attack is based on two presumptions : that stronger legal rights would reverse their loss of members, and that bigger membership would help workers.
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The word "presumptions" functions primarily as a noun , often plural, referring to beliefs or assumptions that are taken for granted, even without concrete proof. As Ludwig AI confirms, it's a correct term, reflecting its established use in English.
Expression frequency: Very common
