The word "supposing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adverb that means "assuming that something is true, especially as a basis for argument or an experiment". For example: "Supposing the sun were to never rise, how would that affect the living things on Earth?".
To turn to the living, and recently ignored in favour of men, the Queen and her secretary have (supposing the honour was not refused) turned their noses up at, listing a few of the most obvious names, Mary Warnock, AS Byatt, Lisa Jardine, Onora O'Neill, Mary Beard, Claire Tomalin, Hilary Mantel, Diana Athill and JK Rowling.
The FTSE 100 finished down 68.07 points at 6495.58, with travel companies falling sharply on the virus news, on the basis that travel restrictions could be enforced, even supposing people want to leave their own countries.
Supposing that the evidence did suggest that rearranging consultants' hours in order to spread them over a seven-day week would be beneficial, the implications of such a shift would be immense.
The sword is associated with "courage" in the poem's first line, and angrily rejected in the last: Supposing that I should have the courage To let a red sword of virtue Plunge into my heart, Letting to the weeds of the ground My sinful blood, What can you offer me?
But, even supposing that those issues can be addressed and solved, Brown's departure also raises a wider question of such a government's legitimacy.
Supposing that actual and projected public spending justified higher taxation, Mr Parry's analysis strongly suggests that the country would have been better off paying for it through income taxes than through a punitive petrol tax.
Some see crassly commercial motives, supposing that the firm has stopped crying foul on censorship in order to woo back the Chinese government on behalf of its business interests.
The decision, he predicted, supposing diplomacy to be excluded, would come through famine, not through fighting.During the whole of the week beginning on June 25th a constant bombardment, of unparalleled intensity, along the British and French front prepared the way for the offensive.
"I may be in trouble for saying this," he begins self-deprecatingly, but "supposing Tower Hamlets or parts of Bradford were to become governed by [Muslim] religious zealots?"Ahead looms a no-holds-barred contest.
This is another way of saying that the problem is (lack of) demand, not supply.Fiscal folliesAt this point one faction of the pessimists makes a different argument: supposing that demand is indeed part of the problem, they say, the government is powerless, for one reason or another, to use fiscal and monetary policy to address it.
Even supposing the 35% of the population who say they don't want extra channels had been persuaded to buy a set-top box, there is still the little problem of all those second and third televisions that end up in bedrooms and kitchens.
