Sentence examples for solid assumptions from inspiring English sources

When Ms. Quinn, the Council speaker, entered the race in March, her candidacy was guided by a set of seemingly solid assumptions: that most voters were happy with the direction of the city; that her sizable lead was stable; and that the political embrace of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was assured.

At least, that is now the solid assumption in Brussels and other European capitals, where the start of a new era in Greece – highly volatile, highly unpredictable – is taken as a given.

In multi-solid (MS) wax models developed by Lira-Galeana et al. (1996), each solid phase is considered as a pure component which does not mix with other solid phases and can exist as a pure solid (solid assumption).

This performance metric facilitates the extension of the results into larger systems, assuming the linear dependence of the system throughput with respect to the number of beams; a solid assumption for conventional systems [1].

That was a very solid assumption since the birth of the internal combustion engine but now that we have electric cars and solar and wind power - it's no longer such a direct correlation.

Thus, the present results indicate that transition-transversion bias is not a solid assumption.

In the final weeks of a campaign marked by widespread voter disillusionment and growing economic distress, and after Pope Benedict XVI's decision to step down on Feb. 28 upended once-solid assumptions, Mr. Grillo's Five Star Movement has surged ahead, surprising the experts almost as much as Pope Benedict did.

In the year since he took office, President Donald Trump has challenged rock-solid assumptions about U.S. foreign policy and jeopardized relations with a series of key allies.