It can be safely assumed that history's most famous people spend more time dead than alive.
It's dynamic: "everything that isn't zigging", as has been said of Norms, "can safely assumed to be zagging".
It can be safely assumed, though, that the US delegation won't be reprimanded for their unflagging efforts to render such values meaningless.
When Michael Jackson died last Thursday it was safely assumed that his back catalogue would get a significant, coffer-filling boost in sales.
The same ones, it can be safely assumed, who didn't fancy him much for the Scotland job in the first place.
It is obviously not possible to identify special occurrences or forms of such higher beings during the Paleolithic Period, but their general features may be safely assumed.
If the resulting image perfectly matched that of a clean hull stored in the robot's memory, it could be safely assumed that there were no mines attached.
Although it is not clear where exactly the faecal waste that has been collected ends up, it can be safely assumed that most of it pollutes fields, rivers and tourist beaches as most of it never reaches a treatment facility.
This can be safely assumed for figurines that show an obvious indication of fertility or are connected with children, and even more for shrines containing figures with sculptured pairs of breasts, and figures on the walls of women in childbirth.
At present this is the only known Chinese enamelled ware made before the 14th century, but it can be safely assumed from this piece that the art of cloisonné was developed to a respectable height in the Tang dynasty.
Since it can be safely assumed that Eoin Morgan was not in town for the quarterly board meeting of the International Cricket Council, his presence merely seemed to encapsulate the low regard for the way his adopted country plays a game they invented – and the number of tricks they have missed as its power, influence, reach and financial clout have grown inexorably.
