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Example sentences for "assume that"

  • Leslie, "and, even if it were, you have no right to assume that that is the reality of it.

  • And meantime," I said, "you have not even the right to assume that it is a good thing to endeavour to ascertain it.

  • Where this taste exists, it is fair to assume that it is in some degree elevated.

  • Every school necessarily imposes some restraint upon the pupils; and I assume that no child under five years of age should be subject to such restraints.

  • From the views and facts presented, as well as from the daily observation and experience of men, I assume that ignorance is the ally of crime, and that education is favorable to virtue.

  • That would be to assume that my experience of all natural phenomena was perfect.

  • And even although it often happens that intermediate deposits which are absent in one part of the world are present in another, we have no right to assume that such is always the case.

  • Moreover, as Darwin says, "we probably take a quite erroneous view when we assume that sediment is being deposited over nearly the whole bed of the sea, at a rate sufficiently quick to embed and preserve fossil remains.

  • We must, of course, assume that deficiency in education is not in itself a reason for doubting the witness, or for holding an individual inclined to crime.

  • Assume that such a stupidity is impossible, and the explanation of the case is also impossible.

  • If we do not find it we assume that such a motive is absent and take the accusation, at least for the time, to be true.

  • If, in church, anybody hears a dull, weak tone, he will believe that the organ is beginning to sound, because it is appropriate to assume that.

  • I assume that he is everywhere made much of, and I do not regard too closely the effect of this reception on his reason; I assume it can stand it.

  • It is also safe to assume that a fleet built expressly on uniform tactical principles represents a more powerful fighting force than we have to-day in an equal number of heterogeneous battleships.

  • If we look at France first, we are entitled to assume that single-handed she is not a match for us, but can only be dangerous to us as a member of a coalition.

  • Whatever it is, we are compelled to assume that it satisfies and transcends the deepest and furthest reach of personal vision in all the souls that approach it.

  • We are compelled to assume that it exists, though in a state of suppression, even in the souls of the immortals.

  • Or let us assume that we had discovered an end set by Nature.

  • Such a ground we should have, if we could venture to assume that all the bodies of the Solar System are inhabited;--if we could proceed upon such a principle, we might reject or postpone the difficulties of particular cases.

  • There seems no valid reason to assume that it would not.

  • It would be a mistake, however, to assume that Russia's motives had been entirely or even largely altruistic.

  • As we cannot comply with the wishes of Germany, we have no alternative but to hasten on our own military preparations and to assume that war is probably inevitable.

  • We venture to assume that a word so attested must at least be entitled to its place in the Gospel.

  • We will, with the Reader's permission, assume that all he tells us is historically true: is an authentic narrative of what actually did take place.

  • In fundamental contrast with those saws which assume that sleep is disturbed by dreams, we hold the dream as the guardian of sleep.

  • I do not, however, think it necessary to assume that, up to the time of becoming conscious, the dream processes really follow the temporal sequence which we have described, viz.

  • If we assume that Nature is uniform, then it is probable that what has often happened will happen again.

  • It is a mistake to assume that because a citizen is an Alderman he is not human and amiably domestic in his tastes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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