Sentence examples for startling assumption from inspiring English sources
Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous seven degrees by the end of this century.
The relativity of simultaneity is a consequence of two startling assumptions.
As that quotation suggests, Mr. White, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and Mr. Wildavsky, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, begin with a startling and - sadly - unconventional assumption: that politicians are neither driven by evil or weak motives, nor are they all, beneath the surface, conniving and dishonest.
Too often, though, it offers a road not to insight, but to a startling blindness about our own norms and assumptions.
More important, recent and startling findings that "Dimming the Sun" describes subvert assumptions about global warming without discrediting them.
While that profile is not startling - real-estate developers and marketers have been working on that assumption for several years - the large down payments New Yorker buyers were forced to make was surprising.
But it is an illegitimate assumption: normative theorists must be open to the possibility, startling and disturbing as it might be, that this pervasive human practice cannot be justified.
In the closing pages, Appleby chronicles the startling rise of China, which has challenged all the usual assumptions about the inevitable linkage of democracy and capitalism.
Most startling of all is a document that suggests we might have to revise our most basic assumptions about the man behind the moustache.
The results were very startling.
