Sentence examples for the prevailing assumption from inspiring English sources

Since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the prevailing assumption has been that capitalism faces no serious rival; no viable alternative system is on offer.

But not entirely: the prevailing assumption in financial markets and among foreign investors is that eventually Britain will give up the pound.

Did it float over on ocean currents from Africa, the prevailing assumption until about 10 years ago, or did humans carry the plant with them when they walked across the Bering land bridge from Asia? "It was a real puzzle," says Bruce Smith, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

The prevailing assumption ― and one that Beymer himself admits having subscribed to for a long time ― was that the social safety net existed for freeloaders mooching off of the government.

Because of this, the prevailing assumption has been that Jerusalem would come last in negotiations, once the issues of borders, security the settlements and even Palestinian refugees were resolved.

Interpreted under the prevailing assumption of substantial introgressive hybridization between M and S, these results suggested that the genes responsible for ecological and reproductive isolation were few in number and mainly confined to three isolated "speciation islands," the largest two of which coincided with low recombination regions near centromeres on chromosome 2 and the X.

Paulson's story also casts a harsh light on the prevailing assumptions behind corporate compensation policies.

It showed that--contrary to the prevailing assumption--sustaining a pregnancy does not depend on the mother's immune system recognizing the fetus as foreign.

Rouhani and his delegation accomplished "about 75% of the goal" that brought them to New York, Maloney said, which was to shake up the prevailing assumptions about Iran, its relations with the outside world and its intentions in developing nuclear technologies.

It was shown that, under the prevailing assumptions, the reduction in prevalence at a given R' does not depend on the rate of loss of immunity λ and the rate of conversion of latently infected animals to the infectious state ν.

Until more evidence is sought and presented to disprove the apparently prevailing assumption of the null hypothesis that the e-interventions do not introduce risk, it is premature to conclude that we can fail to reject it.