One was the universal assumption that explosives were the main threat.
The universal assumption here is that they will name Bush electors.
This seems obvious to us, but it wasn't by any means a universal assumption in those days.
These philosophical questions puzzle scientists because they are used to relying upon Occam's razor as an unstated but universal assumption.
The universal assumption that Lance Armstrong is unbeatable has, Millar believes, made the opening stages of this year's race far less tense than is usually the case.
Indeed, their universal assumption, hardened since 1989, that there are no alternatives to western-style democracy and capitalism – the famous "end of history" – is precisely what has made us incapable of grasping the political phenomena shaking the world today.
Bigots to the right of them, sneering punks to the left, and underlying it all is the all but universal assumption that if it's Christian and it rocks it almost certainly sucks.
Paramount wanted her character, Sister Sunshine, to be a fraud, but both Dolly and I thought she should be a true believer, which made the execs nervous since the universal assumption in Hollywood is that the only true religion is atheism.
The universal assumption that equal distances between response choices represent equal distances on the dimension being measured is essentially erroneous.
The almost universal assumption among historians of logic that the Stoics represented their five (types of) indemonstrables by five modes is false and not supported by textual evidence.
