Sentence examples for presumptive as from inspiring English sources

Collings treated Hathaway, his heir presumptive, as if she were a boy.

The diagnosis of DILI is therefore virtually always presumptive, as it is based on clinical assessment and exclusion of other possible causes rather than on absolute criteria and specific diagnostic tests.

Presumptive serotonergic as well as dopaminergic DDC neurites, for instance, localize to the VG neuropil above the CI tracts.

Fifth Avenue has presumptive cachet, just as surely as the Grand Concourse will cut you down a few notches.

And all of that is available to Senator McCain, as our presumptive nominee, as of today".

The set of 100 BACs were annotated using FGENESH and resulting predictions were classified as presumptive genes or as TEs using a similarity-based search (see Section "Methods").

Confirmed SNPT cases were defined as those with a positive culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in respiratory specimen; presumptive SNPT as clinical improvement after three months of anti-TB treatment as judged by three different chest physicians in a blinded review.

When empires wane, they live on, as the political scientist David Singh Grewal has argued, by embedding their values, systems and standards in a presumptive heir, as ancient Greece did through Rome and as Britain has done through the United States.

The Democratic frontrunner and former secretary of state made the sobering yet blistering assault in a speech in San Diego on Thursday which sought, in effect, to disqualify the Republican presumptive nominee as a valid candidate.

By proposing policies he has no hope of passing in this Congress, writes the Atlantic's David Frum, Mr Obama's "intent, pretty obviously, is to box in his presumptive successor as head of the Democratic Party".

They left after making a breathtaking ad hoc run at drafting Goldwater for president instead, and taking down the presumptive nominee as an unprincipled sellout.