Sentence examples for widespread assumptions from inspiring English sources

I think this shows that some widespread assumptions about human egoism are oversimplified at best.

Contrary to widespread assumptions, it is not the absence of capability but the exclusion of capable people from the government that has hollowed the state from within.

Whatever the truth – and we do not yet know the whole truth, despite widespread assumptions of Russian guilt – there has long been one certainty.

But he has never gotten into the business of reinforcing widespread assumptions of an American acceptance of multipolarity — a notional world of "equal" and competing powers in which the United States concedes loss of its primacy, whatever its many qualifications.

"Despite widespread assumptions that the banks, the Jews or the Mafia run New York," Lindheim began, "the true ruler of the city is its new social class: the hippoisie".

A backlash against America in countries whose citizens were subjected to torture – which the Pentagon and the State Department warned of – has so far failed to materialise, possibly because of a widespread assumptions in those countries that the CIA had been doing this all along.

There is a widespread assumption among knowing New Yorkers that much of the merchandise is stolen.

Worse, there was a widespread assumption that Zuckerman's parents were the models for Carnovsky's.

There is a widespread assumption that natural childbirth is the plucky underdog in cultural attitudes.

Instead, the widespread assumption was that they would be refinanced before the reset ever kicked in.

Let's first consider the widespread assumption that Ukip is about to collapse.