Sentence examples for presumptions to from inspiring English sources

Élite presumptions to the contrary, the London poor did not enjoy living in squalor.

For both the New York Senate aspirants, a glimpse of frivolity would undermine their perspiring presumptions to high seriousness or inviolable earnestness though it would surely make for a zippier show.

Since Hockney was by then actually putting the book together, those first 200 pages of glorious illustrations were largely organized and annotated with little beyond such presumptions to support the thesis offered, and with apparently little pause for alternative thoughts.

"The aim of a liberal education" the report declared, "is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to reveal what is going on beneath and behind appearances, to disorient young people and to help them to find ways to reorient themselves".

Whatever the merits of that theory at a criminal trial, it makes no sense to afford such presumptions to CEOs who have already spoken widely and are not about to be questioned in the back of a police station, but rather at a decorous hearing with lawyers at their side.

He is extolling an artist's receptiveness to the world -- to its beauty -- to think beyond our presumptions, to live in uncertainty and to not reach "after fact and reason".

He queried American Jewish groups' presumption to intervene in German affairs.

Spielberg's presumption to historical authority is one of Godard's pet peeves.

Two prior convictions raise the presumption to a mandatory life term.

It would be implemented by introducing a "presumption to derogate" from the ECHR in warfare.

So far the government has promised "a presumption to prosecute" in knife crime cases.