It is possible, that Wace intended to convey no farther meaning than that the town was not then fortified, as in his time; and such a supposition would cause every difficulty to vanish.
And thus over great part of the world the fundamental supposition on which rests the above generalization respecting Rent is altogether false.
It goes upon the utterly unmechanical supposition that the approach of a body to the center at any moment depends solely upon the excess of the centripetal over the centrifugal force; and reversely.
It is not necessary for us to dwell much upon this turn of mind; for the whole of our present inquiry goes upon the supposition that an acquaintance with the laws of nature is worth our having for its own sake.
And that at any rate there is nothing inconsistent with our Idea of the Divine Government in the supposition that the history of this world has a Beginning, a Middle and an End.
We cannot refer to the weight for any such assurance; for by supposition the presence and absence of phlogiston makes no difference in the weight.
This challenge has been repeatedly offered, but never in any degree accepted; and I entertain no apprehension that Mr. Mill's supposition will ever be verified by such a performance.
For those arrangements rest on the supposition that the country will continue to desire to depend, in the main, upon private accumulation for capital, and individual ambition for business leadership.
This judgment rests on the supposition that the facts of the industrial situation give promise that industrial recovery will take place even if prices do not drop greatly, and drop gradually rather than sharply.
The second supposition supplies an answer to a question that must be faced in any attempt to formulate a policy of wage settlement for industrial peace in the United States.
The Distances of Place must be suited to Leisure, and Possibility, otherwise the supposition will appear unnatural and absurd.
I speak this only on Supposition that the rest of his Performances are like These.
Afterwards he seems to make the supposition better than the Fact, and argues upon a feign'd Case.
The first supposition makes it dull, and the later, incredible.
And is this a likely Supposition for Sincerity and good Nature?
Her desire had been to deceive herself with the pretty supposition that her own talent must earn luxuries or that they must not be earned at all.
Here, again, I am unable to express any opinion, although the supposition that hæmorrhage from this source took place is natural.
These operations in the early part of the campaign were more freely undertaken on the supposition that rise of temperature and other symptoms of fever pointed to incipient breaking down of the clot.
In several cases incisions were made under the supposition that this had already occurred.
No matter how selfish we may be, it will not do for us to act upon the supposition that the comfort of other people is of less consequence than our own.
On any othersupposition to the general reader it is unintelligible.
The analogy between sleep and natural death is in favour of the supposition that the latter, also, is due to an intoxication much more profound and serious than that which results in sleep.
There is nothing improbable in the supposition that some of the poisons may develop when the seeds are ripening.
There is nothing to warrant the supposition that Shakespeare was on bad terms with his wife.
Many of the Professor's critical remarks can only be explained on the supposition that he assumes that his readers will not take the trouble to verify his references or question his dogmas.
In the great majority of instances such a supposition would be against all analogy.
The present marriage system was based on the general supposition of the economic dependence of the woman on the man, and the consequent necessity for his making provision for her which she can legally enforce.
Really inevitable, if you think of it, on the supposition that the forms of civilization are to continue to hold good.
Surmise inclined to the supposition that the carriage was in the neighbourhood; probably Lady Arkroyd, driving back from Thanes, said the Rector.
But the moment he had recognized the nature of this supposition he had flung it from him, as he had others of a like sort.
The supposition of concealed machinery, possible enough were it question of the magician's own den, is thus effectually precluded.
I was to have gone this week to settle important business with him, but he excused me on the supposition that I would not be allowed to leave Crichton.
We admit frankly that, if the supposition is correct, the censure founded on it, that the author has undertaken something pronounced by Catholic doctrine impossible and unlawful, is just and inevitable.
But there is an individual in question; and this brings me to your second mistake in the matter; namely, in the supposition that the countess never married again.
The first is, in the supposition that your disclosures cannot now serve the countess, since the world has long ago done her full justice.
But then, suddenly he reflected that this latter supposition was not so certain, and he anxiously inquired: "Is the countess at home, professor?
There are but few preachers or religious books which do not go on the supposition that this doctrine is taught in Scripture.
My friend and his family had visited this medium, and had seen things which to them seemed utterly unaccountable, except on the supposition that they were the work of disembodied spirits.
It is well to suspect ourselves sometimes of unknown faults, and to go on the supposition that what appears unkindness in others towards us, may be the result of some unguarded word or inconsiderate action on our part towards them.
In the 1785 paper he proved the correctness of this supposition by showing that when electric sparks are passed through common air there is a shrinkage of volume owing to the nitrogen uniting with the oxygen to form nitric acid.
He is supposed to be a younger contemporary of Rhys Goch Eryri, but there are many facts to warrant a supposition that he lived much later, even as late as 1490.
They are very careful about whom they admit to their community, as there are numerous rakes and idlers who make application on the supposition that it is a harem or Turkish paradise.
For the only alternative supposition is, that man has been specially created--that is to say, has been produced in some quite different way from other animals and altogether independently of them.
In order to understand why we have no record of these changes in any part of the world, we must fall back upon some such supposition as we made in the case of the dicotyledonous plants.
They are so small, and they come in such numbers only in the shower, that the supposition is not a violent one.
A last item in the same memorandum book of 1770 may justify the supposition that still another influence had entered Jefferson's life.
This would tend to give confirmation to the supposition I timidly ventured in the last chapter.
She did not derive as much comfort from this supposition as might be anticipated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supposition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
