Sentence examples for standard assumption from inspiring English sources

The standard assumption is that discounts destroy a brand.

It is a standard assumption that the president's party almost always does badly in midterm elections.

The standard assumption is that an affair is a symptom either of marital dysfunction or of some pathology on the part of the perpetrator.

Behavioral economics sprang up about three decades ago as a radical critique of the standard assumption that human beings behaved in economically rational ways.

It's a standard assumption in the metals world that no one will ever again build a new blast furnace in the rich, industrialised countries.

The κ2 distribution was calculated with a wobbling-in-cone model36 and compared to the standard assumption of 〈κ2〉 = 2/3 (Supplementary Fig. 3).

A standard assumption in coastal engineering is that the porosity of natural beach sand (non-cohesive) is 40%.

The standard assumption is likely to be reasonable for systems which are both weakly coupled and reverberant.

The standard assumption is that the City prefers the Tories; certainly the return from equities since Labour took office in May 1997 has been pretty pathetic.

The need to put people back to work?"This year's election has turned a standard assumption about American electoral politics on its head.

The predictions are based on the standard assumption -- which some experts say should be revised -- that by 2100, carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere will be double what they were at the start of the Industrial Revolution.