Sentence examples for supposition the from inspiring English sources

Yet, contrary to popular supposition, the architects who built in a grand, idealizing fashion were not naïve about human nature.

And, contrary to what might be the supposition, the Labor group in Parliament applauded their associate's action.

Contrary to popular supposition the regularly maligned "unelected Eurocrats" – the commission president and council president – do not get a vote at all.

This supposition — the prospect of a shrewd old king looking far beyond the end of his own reign — is made plausible by Penn's gripping account of the Tudor monarch's final hours.

Actually, this is less of a fact than a supposition; the evidence that income inequality creates poor health outcomes (rather than being created by them; or being created by some third factor that also makes people sick) is somewhat less than overwhelming, particularly outside the United States.

In line with the theory's supposition, the factors that influence the students' behaviour in relation to entrepreneurship rest on three variables: attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control.

The Internet-versus-books debate is conducted on the supposition that the medium is the message.

The fund held on to the Baby Bells on the supposition that the rule would be changed.

This supports the supposition that the cathodic reaction in the corrosion process changes gradually from water reduction to oxygen reduction.

The only function of the word 'every' in a sentence, for instance, is to distribute the supposition of the term immediately following it, that is, it produces distributive supposition in the term, as in 'every man is running'.

The data obtained were explained based on the supposition about the radical nature of organophosphorus radical-cations in studied reactions.