The common assumption is that elites are always hiding something.
The night seemed to upend the common assumption that young Russians are apathetic.
"The common assumption is that it's bad for stability, but I'm not so sure," Lankov said.
The researchers found no evidence for the winter blues, the common assumption that short winter days contribute to negative moods.
While the common assumption was that indigenous Tasmanians were extinct, Tasmanian Aborigines had indeed retained their identity.
In BEFORE THE POISON (Morrow/ HarperCollins $25.99), Peter Robinson refutes the common assumption that romantic suspense is a woman's game.
The film also takes up the common assumption that African-American prowess in sports like track or basketball is somehow a result of genetics or biology.
Or more precisely, as opposed to the common assumption that 'everything is different now after Sept. 11,' almost everything has stayed the same, albeit in sharper relief".
It also contests in advance the common assumption that the novel is some kind of allegory of the state of South Africa.
Mr. Gore also confronted head on the common assumption, backed up in polls, that voters prefer Mr. Bush's personality, warning that the presidency was not a "popularity contest".
That, at least, is the common assumption based on the belief that decarceration is a zero-sum game and unions benefit from mass incarceration.
