Sentence examples for supposition in from inspiring English sources

But Kuczynski's objective-subjective straddle can be compromising; at the very least, it argues against the supposition, in this age of the memoir, that one's vanity is expiated by self-exposure.

He demonstrated his supposition in a lecture to the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861 by projecting through filters a colour photograph of a tartan ribbon that had been taken by this method.

Seafood industry representatives say there is enough uncertainty to raise doubts that the shrimp harvest will recover by 2012, a supposition in a report that Kenneth R. Feinberg, the administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the spill, used in his formula for determining final settlements.

The next subsection will discuss that supposition in detail.

The first principle was a common supposition in Bayle's day, and so obviously caused no controversy.

The monistic supposition in (8) is tantamount to the claim that there is but one way of being true.

Edith Wharton rose to prominence through laying into Victorian suppositions in The House of Mirth.

Pincher first made this accusation in a 1981 book called "Their Trade Is Treachery," and though his case is far from airtight, full of suppositions in places where you'd want dispositive evidence he has made it relentlessly ever since.

Pincher first made this accusation in a 1981 book called "Their Trade Is Treachery," and — though his case is far from airtight, full of suppositions in places where you'd want dispositive evidence — he has made it relentlessly ever since.

"People who care about American history, professionally and otherwise, will no doubt weigh in on the accuracy of its particulars and the validity of its interpretation; they will also, I hope, revisit some of their own suppositions in light of its unsparing and uncompromised imagining of the past," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.

The last inequality follows as and by suppositions in the lemma.