Sentence examples for supposition to from inspiring English sources

"Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power," Mr. Galbraith wrote.

Continuing down this trail of supposition to identify the person who stood to profit most from the subterfuge, Junquera zeroed in on the grandson -- Javier's only son, Mariano.

We have already been scapegoated by Mr Trump, so it is no supposition to suggest that worse may be to come.

An observation that very nearly agrees with prediction, but not quite, does not necessarily show the initial supposition to be mistaken.

Setting out the lessons that future governments should take from the dossier episode, Chilcot emphasised "the need for vigilance to avoid unwittingly crossing the line from supposition to certainty" and "the need to be scrupulous in discriminating between facts and knowledge on the one hand and opinion, judgment and belief on the other".

Being reasonable, if one works in any job – cab driver, van driver and so on – which requires one's daily confinement behind the steering wheel, it isn't a fascist supposition to wonder how the roads will cope with the booming migrant population.

Mr. Latchford said that the government lawyers, desperate to seize a high-profile antiquity, were "weaving together suppositions" to inflate his role.

This is also the view of Peretz's ideological opposites, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett, who twist the facts into a remarkable contortion of perverse interpretations, narrow legalisms, and ill-informed suppositions to prove what they must have wanted to believe from the outset.

For as the cause ought only to be proportioned to the effect, and the effect, so far as it falls under our cognisance, is not infinite; what pretensions have we, upon your suppositions, to ascribe that attribute to the divine Being?

When Newton extended his theory regarding an inverse-square attractive force, which colligated facts of planetary motion and lunar motion, to the class of "tidal activity," he did not need to add any new suppositions to the theory in order to colligate correctly the facts about particular tides.

While the socioeconomic unfairness of such companies is rankling, I particularly object to the supposition that to be a competitive college applicant, students must undertake a regimen of stealth tutoring to beat their classmates.