Sentence examples for the shared assumptions from inspiring English sources
It tugs against the shared assumptions of most Democrats and Republicans: that America's future is bright; that change is good.
This piece examines both the variations in assessment practices/emphases suggested by different developmental theories as well as the shared assumptions about growth to which they lead, arguing that these commonalities should guide efforts to foreground development in the assessment of writing.
In exploring Henry James and the mass market, Marcia Jacobson views popular literature as books whose conventions "dramatize the shared assumptions of writer and reader" (7).
Her India has been molded by the shared assumptions of India's "progressive" elite, who have played a decisive role in promoting the liberal socialism of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Suppose that I point to the desk in my office in broad daylight and say 'That desk (if it exists) is made of wood.' Unless the context is highly unusual, the shared assumptions, so the argument goes, uniquely determine what proposition is expressed by the sentence.
The shared assumptions are that standardized testing is both the best measure of educational progress and the goal of education.
The shared assumption behind all of their advice was that her trauma would lead to something more.
This is the shared assumption and common practice in academia, for example, where students often write their own reference letters for harried professors.
From Plato to St. Augustine to Thomas Hobbes, the shared assumption was that human beings are fundamentally passionate creatures and that reason alone is too weak to contain our drives.
The shared assumption is that any change will be for the better, and a new president with a new style will be able to solve all our problems (and the world's) with elegant rhetoric or an open attitude or the stroke of a pen.
According to this shared assumption, the way to find the real or the true Constitution is to identify the core values that the document and the precedents stand for, and to use these as principles to interpret the Constitution correctly.
