Even when I did the formal interviews in 2009, he was almost assuming the position.
For years, it has been almost assumed that Piazza was staying behind the plate solely to break Carlton Fisk's record for home runs as a catcher.
"At least a sizable chunk of the Menatep stake may go back to the state -- that's almost assumed at this point," Mr. Collison added.
swiftly proposed a successor who was almost universally assumed to be a man of integrity.
In the months and then years after 9/11, as noted at the outset, it was almost universally assumed that the terrorist event was a harbinger rather than an aberration.
In the early 20th century it was almost universally assumed that traditional cultures would be completely assimilated into colonial cultures within a few decades, thus undermining the strict application of comparative anthropology.
The Cold War had been almost universally assumed to be a permanent condition.
"Conrad was more preoccupied with rotten Western values, the white man's inhumanity to the black man than, as is almost always assumed today, black savagery," she writes.
It is salutary to be reminded that music was not employed simply for atmospheric effect: 'Instrumental music is almost always assumed to be audible to the characters on stage.' Discussion of the interpretative effect of music is hampered by deficiencies in stage directions and by the fact that very little of the music used in the theatre of Shakespeare's time survives.
The role of the Chief Executive Officer (hereafter, CEO) in financial reporting is almost universally assumed to be significant (Carcello, Neal, Palmrose & Scholz, 2011; Cohen, Krishnamoorthy, & Wright, 2002; Connelly, 2005; Paredes, 2004).
