Sentence examples for standing presumption from inspiring English sources
In most contexts, there is a standing presumption that one does not have access to and may not make use of another's body, property, personal information, or other elements of his or her personal domain.
Citified types sometimes find this music a bit digressive, and there's a standing presumption that it's past its sell-by date, but the twenty-four-year-old Swedish musician Gustav Ejstes has found a way to channel the qualities of the genre into a user-friendly, melodic whole that does not feel like a pathetic trek back to Woodstock.
The version of her that Dan Brown presents in The Da Vinci Code isn't based on any reliable scholarship, but neither is the long-standing presumption that Mary was a prostitute.
Clara quips about Doctor being jealous after his presumption that he not Orson would be the last man standing at the end of the universe.
He's poked at the presumptions of major institutions and systems, including, most recently, standing in opposition to the Catholic church's ban on ordaining women.
The Mayor of London, who will be standing as a Tory MP next year, wants the law to be reversed so there is a "rebuttable presumption" of guilt until people are proved innocent.
This presumption affords those claiming access to this evaluative standpoint the unique but nevertheless illusory privilege of standing outside time and present context in order to pronounce a verdict upon the conditions of the present.
Unfortunately, the widespread recognition that America can't do everything coexists with a set of outdated presumptions and practices, which still dominate many policy discussions in Washington and are already doing considerable harm to the U.S.'s standing.
In a back room, spotlighted like an evil shrine, another canvas depicts the outstretched bare arm of the artist/viewer washing the leg of a preteen boy who, standing in a bathtub, evinces a budding erection... Nancy Shaver is represented by seventeen modest black-and-white photographs picturing toddlers' T-shirts that are imprinted with designs of adult presumption.
