sumption

Behind this false as sumption was my complete misunderstanding of both God and the meaning of total commitment.

Living on the Edge Chip Ingram 2009

For the first time someone had made the correct as - sumption about Stefan's model.

The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

Everyone else would be operating under the as - sumption that Kylen Elessedil and the Elven High Council fully supported the expedition and anticipated its safe and successful return.

Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

SPVs are a form of financial engineering-based on the as - sumption of rising share prices-and use a ring-fenced mechanism whereby a lender takes downside risks when things go wrong.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

Measles increases the con-sumption of vitamin A and often precipitates xerophthalmia.

Chapter 13 1993

In the West, the theology of dispersal to which we have alluded, and the corresponding popular as - sumption that the pre-Babel lingua Adamica was

LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

The underlying as - sumption is that names were consciously invented by an original name-giver, who may well have had more than one reason for a certain choice.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

Their whole argument, however, indicates an implicit as - sumption, similar to Plato's, that language was invented by rational men.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

This whole conception is based frankly on the as - sumption that armed by the insights of Marxist-Lenin - ism, the Communist Party knows better what the true interests of the working class are than the workers know themselves; that it cannot give the workers their head but must, if necessary, restrain or compel them for their own good.

MARXISM SIDNEY HOOK 1968

The tendency to im - mobilize poetry was strengthened by a customary as - sumption in Greek literature (found also in Sanskrit poetry and the Vedas): the first known of its poets is also the greatest.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968