Sentence examples for scholars assumed from inspiring English sources

But he had been absent from professional life for so long that some scholars assumed that he was dead.

A collection called Romulus was the basis of most of them; Phaedrus' identity having been lost, some scholars assumed that Romulus was the author.

But the habits of thought -- the strategies people adopted in processing information and making sense of the world around them -- were, Western scholars assumed, the same for everyone, exemplified by, among other things, a devotion to logical reasoning, a penchant for categorization and an urge to understand situations and events in linear terms of cause and effect.

Until recently, most African scholars assumed that the banana, which is native to New Guinea, was not introduced into Africa earlier than about 2000 years ago.

When political scientist Gary King of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and Ph.D. students Jennifer Pan and Margaret Roberts began examining censorship in China in 2011, many scholars assumed that calling for policy changes, criticizing government leaders, and raising sensitive topics like the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 were verboten.

This improved the metal flow and design sharpness so much that early numismatic scholars assumed the reverse was also altered, though in fact no change was made and the Type 2 and Type 3 reverses are identical.

Many scholars assume that moai building played a critical role in the island's deforestation, and that environmental collapse was a factor in the abandonment of the effort.

These facts, known mainly to scholars, assume a new urgency in "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention" at the Jewish Museum.

Most scholars assume that the eschatological assumptions of the apostolic community that the return of Jesus and thus the end of time were imminent rendered social issues secondary.

Some scholars assume that the books of Samuel were composed from two or three continuous sources; others suggest a compilation of independent narratives of varying lengths.

Scholars assume that a simple and uniform liturgy existed in western Europe until the end of the 5th century and that only in the 6th century did the Gallican church develop its own rite and chant with Oriental influences.