How To Use Assume In A Sentence

Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
The old, merry Whiting looked sideways at Richard, then the round face assumed an expression of diffident humility for Mr. Hanks. Morgan’s Run
But that is much more easily done if Cassell can reassume his role as the offensive ignition.

Second, lump sum payments are worked out on the basis of an assumed life expectancy.
Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
To believe that Obama is a socialist merely assumes his continued commitment to a world he has long described as his lodestar. Radical-In-Chief
Montresor assumed an air of indifference again.
Are the forces of fallacy still out there, waiting to reassume their hold? Times, Sunday Times
You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
A neighbourhood patrol can thus assume the proportions of an armed convoy.
Let us assume for a moment that the plan succeeds.
At last, after wise deliberation of the concerns of either side, she assumes the office of arbitress which is offered to her by both parties.
It would be rash to assume that everyone will agree with you on this.
Extra hydration makes it easier for the molecule to assume the lowest-energy configuration.
This matter has assumed considerable importance.
This defense of evidential decision theory is called the tickle defense because it assumes that an introspected condition screens off the correlation between choice and prediction. Causal Decision Theory
Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position.
Johnson regained his composure and reassumed his position behind the podium. The Sportsman's Daily: Phelps' "Bong Binge" Gives Agent Severe Case of Paranoia
I used to muzzleload, had a TC Hawkin flintlock, as heavy as that barrel is it would take alot to burst it, dunno if "modern" muzzleloaders are as hefty or not, but I assume they are just for product liability reasons. Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
The council would assume legislative, judicial and executive powers.
It is frequently assumed that elderly persons lose their sexual desires or that they are physically unable to perform.
During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
Everyone who uses those arguments has already assumed the longterm disfranchisement and marginalization of that majority of the Palestinian people forced to live in complete exile from their homeland for, in many cases, the past 60 years ... Charlottesville Blogs
Most people assume the higher the horsepower rating on the box, the better the air compressor.
Workingparent guilt can assume draining proportions in such situations.
Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.
He had assumed that of the two sisters she was the practical one, the heartier, the more robust. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
That this, however, was in any proper sense an ostensorium in which the Host was exposed to view is not stated and cannot be assumed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
It is a subject that knows no bounds or time limits, and the demands of the role continue to bedevil women who assume it. Cherie Burns: Stepmotherhood Never Ends
First, we may try to assume, or tediously enucleate a consensus of religious truth as a basis of will training, e.g., Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
One assumes other factors were at work, perhaps clinical depression, so that the medal controversy precipitated his decision.
At the time Milankovitch did his work, it was generally assumed that four glaciations had occurred in the Alps during the Pleistocene, named Günz, Mindel, Riss and Würm. Milankovitch, Milutin
As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.
While it might be fair to assume that the average comic reader is something of a geek (however that term might be described), the same can't be said about the average cinemagoer. [GUEST POST] Gabriel McKee on Mark Millar's Kick-Ass...and Why it Stinks
In general, it was assumed in the early development of international law that control of natural resources depended on the acquisition of sovereignty over land territory and territorial seas.
The calculation of Eq. 32 assumes that there is no correlation between the dwells at very long dwell times.
The judge warned the duo they must not assume the fact he had adjourned sentence for pre-sentence reports meant he was in any way indicating what penalty would follow.
The idea assumes that most people, most of the time, will take the simplest route to their destination.
All these methods assume that there is no recombination, and they rely on the existence of a single simple coalescent history or genealogy for all sites in the locus.
I assumed that I would be bowled out of that fairly sharpish, as presumably all the best players would have made it through.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Although most researchers stress the grammaticality of the majority of bilingual utterances, they assume that the grammatical norms of the two languages in isolation provide the basis for determining what is grammatical.
Nearly everything about cycling is more interesting than casual observers assume.
Several new varieties of metalwork also were added to the old, especially the aquamanile, i.e., a vessel in the form of an animal, used for washing the hands, and the metal structures placed upon the altar; other articles assumed new forms. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
It assumes that the virtual is a substitute for the material realm, rather than an adjunct to it.
When adapters approach source texts, he seems to suggest, they should assume that whatever is, is right.
Epsom and Ewell's historians assume that he would have found it hard to maintain course and so could not land at any of the airfields near the south coast.
Rural pubs have great potential to assume a business and community role.
I'm not going to name our guests, because I don't want them to be associated with this place, and because a man whom I assume was the owner made such an oleaginous, starstruck fool of himself.
His brother now had to assume responsibility for them as well as for his own growing family, particularly when it soon became evident that his sister-in-law, Ethel, could not cope.
In both, it is assumed that the criminal law can and should be used to protect or to reinforce moral principles.
I didn't think to screenshot the whole thing because I assumed they wouldn't just start deleting comments.
Instead, he underplays and it's a joy to watch him assume just the right mask of deferential blandness to manage his Colonel.
Here, Asa assumes the folk-funk stylings of Linda Lewis, borrows the flutey mellotrons from Strawberry Fields Forever, and weaves them into a production so breezy you might reasonably whisper "new Sade". This week's new singles
The canon law assumed that cathedral had five or more bells, a parish church two or three, while the churches of the medicant orders, like public oratories, were originally limited to one. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
The princes of the West assumed the cross in order to appropriate to their own use the tithes which, for the defrayal of crusade expenses, they had levied upon the property of the clergy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
In some instances the protruding parts assume large proportions, but always, because of the relationship between the fibular tarsal bone (calcaneum) and the tendon sheath, the larger protrusion is situated mesially. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
The temptation to assume them is especially strong in chronic care institutions, which tend toward total properties.
While this increase or decrease in many instances is a natural fight of nature against the intrusion of opposing elements into the body, it frequently assumes dimensions that are most unpleasant and seriously impair the health, such as catarrhal conditions, all of which are due to poor or degenerated cells of this tissue. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
Piers the plowman is the name assumed by Robert or William Langland, in a historico-satirical poem so called. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
This so-called deductive method of Aristotle assumed as a starting-point some general of principle as a premise or hypothesis and thence proceeded, by logical reasoning, to deduce concrete applications or consequences. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
In the middle of the spectrum were naturalists and physicians who supported the unity of the human species (monogenism), though almost all assumed racial hierarchy.
Actually, "splog" or "slog" are two common shorthands for "Spam Blogs"; as people linked to you using "slog", Google assumed is was to point at a wrong doer... Spam blog - SLOG
Now that BHT is out on video, I don't feel quite so obligated to hide such things beneath a cut tag -- for I assume that most of you who would be interested in seeing this film have already done so. Play it again, Sam
These activist judges assume that the judiciary is a super-legislature of moral philosophers. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
Scholars of nineteenth-century sentimentalism note the radical universalism underlying sentimental discourse as well as the broad values of political and social equality it assumes.
But they should not assume he is a good juggler just because he kind of juggled to the music with three balls. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Beatles juggling redux
Its soft fair luxuriance was, no one could tell how, made to assume the half-dressed, half-undressed air of the head in Delaroche's picture; and Frederica looked the part well. Melbourne House
If complementizer phrases denote propositions or possible states of affairs, then it is reasonable to assume that being good simpliciter is being a good state of affairs, and hence that it is a special case of attributive good. Value Theory
Everyone assumes that dates that follow the word "radiocarbon" are accurate, precise and sure. Signs of the Times
As long as the conflict goes on here, it's logical to assume that the attitudes of all sides will harden, which is deeply regrettable. Top Israel Rabbis: Don't Sell Property To Non-Jews
Classical criminology did not assume that existing legal definitions of crime and the way they are enforced necessarily constitute this objective category.
In the one-step ahead forecasting situation, we assumed that the industrial practitioners updated their data quarterly.
They assume most who know the least.
We assume, like we did in the previous model, that the fitness functions are differentiable at the fixation points.
People assume that the novel is semi-autobiographical.
Although Eric seems to assume the experiencer sense, I'm going to make the causative sense explicit.
Authorities should assume an aggressive stance in screening money laundering and its related crimes.
Joy in living can never be assumed as a posse or put on as a mask.
After all, it was assumed that all monks could read and write. Monasteries also contained libraries and scriptoria, or writing rooms, in which manuscripts were copied.
In linguistic terms, these two poles are aligned with the constative and the performative, the latter being not quite identical with the expressive, since that category assumes a certain interiority which is not requisite for the performative. Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)
Above all, the female body was assumed to be moulded, enclosed: all openings sealed, all passage denied.
One of the prime functions of a teacher is pastoral care, and students assume that their professors will offer moral instruction and guidance.
We cannot assume anything in this case.
Thus this type of conflict is treated as an isolated exception against the backdrop of assumed consensus.
Animal consciousness has long been assumed to be a nonviable arena of investigation.
The thing about George Bush the elder is that if you paid enough attention to him and what he said, at a certain point you could safely assume that whatever statement issued from his mouth, invariably the opposite was the case. — The Political Revival of George Herbert Walker Bush - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
Nevermind character concepts; in a group of 4, assume 2 people got average rolls, 1 person got uber rolls, and another got rolls just above the legal reroll level. Player Empowerment or Player Entitlement? « Geek Related
Electroencephalogram ( EEG ) assumes a dominant position in the current research of the depth detection of anesthesia.
The majority of species are active in the late evening or in the darkness of the night, and sphingids were assumed to use olfaction rather than vision to find and recognise flowers.
Since these postulated "carbocation intermediates" were likely to be not only very short lived but also very reactive, it was generally assumed that one would never be able to prepare them in some quantities. Press Release: The 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
This layer is not concerned with whether packets arrive at their destination error free the transport layer assumes that role. DPI: simplified and demystified
Reminding the glossily appareled Jeremiah Cummings, the head of the Worldwide International Campaign for Christ, that Saint Paul traveled with only the shirt on his back, he asks, “Should I assume that this is the only $2,000 suit you own?” An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
The simplest model assumes the same ratio for all branches in a phylogeny.
Mr Cross will assume the role of Chief Executive with a team of four directors.
Climatically, the gradual change view of the future assumes that agriculture will continue to thrive and growing seasons will lengthen.
A male Cancer-Pisces, fearing that his sensitivity is a form of weakness, may try to assume an aggressive persona, hoping to conceal his feelings with an overt display of toughness or machismo.
She is at her most urgent and evocative when she assumes the first person; otherwise the work's essayistic quality obtrudes upon the immediacy and music of the poetry.
Let us assume those clubs actually win something. Then players will receive large bonuses.
In the Protestant's view, indeed, who assumes that miracles never are, our thaumatology is one great falsehood; but that is _his_ First Principle, as I have said so often, which he does not prove but assume. Apologia pro Vita Sua
Gold futures turned positive Wednesday, bucking the second day of sliding commodities, as it reassumed its safe-haven identity amid turmoil in Europe. Gold Swoons, Then Rises on Risk Worries
If you were one of the 16,300 fans who drove through the late autumn mist to sit on those unforgiving wood bleachers on Saturday afternoon, you probably didn't know that the Jayhawks were under the weather, and you probably would have watched the first half and assumed "the crud" was the name of KU's new offense. KansasCity.com: Front Page
said the term "thuggery" has been used as a catchall crime since the military assumed power Feb. 11 and is so broad that people have been arrested for no reason. Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
Sir John Herschel compared it to a surface studded over with flocks of wool, or to the breaking up of a mackerel sky when the clouds of which it consists begin to assume a cirrous appearance. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
To simplify our modeling, I will assume that our rental agency does not support corporate accounts, only individual accounts.
The court assumed responsibility for the girl's welfare.
It is popular to assume that other people resist change but, of course, we are all potential resisters of change.
He had never entered the lottery before and he had assumed that his entry form would be stamped with a code of some sort.
In most cases the model assumes that the activated molecule is diffusible, and the washout occurs whenever the rate of diffusion exceeds rate of formation of the molecule.
To assume simple bureaucratic bungling is simply simple-minded. Balkinization
The proposal assumes, as seems reasonable, that the relation of constitution only ever obtains between persisting objects which are composite, as are the statue and the lump of bronze.
Natural cytotoxicity, assumed to be an important defense mechanism in viral, neoplastic, and parasitic diseases, was also reduced. Effects of changes in ultraviolet radiation in the Arctic
Fregellae, the town which assumed the lead in the movement and either through overhaste or faulty information alone took the fatal step, [486] was a Latin colony which had been planted by Rome in the territory of the Volsci in the year 328 A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
Harrington is famously teetotal, never having let a drop of alcohol cross his lips, so it can assumed he was speaking from the heart. US Open 2011: Remarkable Rory McIlroy wins by eight shots
The model presented here is focused on interpreting the mechanism and resulting dynamics of the solute per se so it will be further assumed that there is no radial flux of solute through the tube walls.
Xi, who is from Shaanxi province and has held top party jobs in Fujian province and briefly in Shanghai, was long assumed to be the successor to President Hu Jintao. China's vice president on track to become next leader
Infant mortality is frequently assumed to be an especially sensitive indicator of severe poverty.
He was discovered living under an assumed identity in South America.
The title assumes that: me casting cure on my friend "might" actually work. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
The jigs were set to popular tunes of the day and, apart from the few short sections of spoken text, one can assume that most were through-sung. A New Start
He had a right to be biassed, and assume that getting him here was a large and important undertaking-but it was a fair assumption. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions -- being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined -- desired to learn how he had come by this jewel. South Wind
Stripped of any political content, today's conflicts in Northern Ireland are now what many wrongly assumed them to be during the Troubles: base, atavistic, sectarian clashes.
Secondly, it assumes coat armour to be hereditary in the male lines of a family, with differences to distinguish cadet branches.
One must assume that a significant portion of these are illegal aliens.
The widespread ambivalence over whether the sons and daughters of Egyptian women married to foreign men should be allowed Egyptian citizenship assumed many dimensions.
Once again, the Americans had essentially reassumed control of the airfield by operating the air traffic control system that extended southward from Thule to Newfoundland.
The political personality approach assumes that knowledge of the relevant personality traits will enable the analyst to understand political attitudes and behavior.
And if the gift assumes an economic dimension, it is because the gift indebts the receiver.
We assume that agents can only live safely for the first two periods and face uncertainty as to whether they will survive to the third period.
Trial by blessed bread was a test for priests, for it was assumed guilty clergy would choke on hallowed food.
This always struck me as redundant, since if we assume the system obeys the equations of motion, the action must be invariant under ANY infinitesimal variation (since the EOM are found by assuming that the action is at an extremum). Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day
The long vista is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you----people, thoughts, emotions, pressures---are now fitted into the larger scene. Everything assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom.
Geographynote: a flat, riverless island renowned for its white sand beaches; its tropical climate is moderated by constant trade winds from the Atlantic Ocean; the temperature is almost constant at about 27 degrees Celsius (81 degrees Fahrenheit) PeoplePopulation: 100,018 note: estimate based on a revision of the base population, fertility, and mortality numbers, as well as a revision of 1985-1999 migration estimates from outmigration to inmigration, which is assumed to continue into the future; the new results are consistent with the 2000 census (July 2007 est.) Aruba
I assumed that she didn't want to be openly nasty to me in front of the children, and helped myself to some rashers of bacon and a new slice of toast.
It seems reasonable to assume that he used his science to determine the probable course of the history of the immediate future.
It is completely illogical to assume that being ashamed and having your school "excoriate" you will be motivational in any way. The Reality Check
In those cases in which the phrenitis did not begin immediately, but about the third or fourth day, the disease was moderate at the commencement, but assumed a violent character about the seventh day. Of The Epidemics
To assume that gun shows and gun ownership are highly correlated is no great leap of logic.
Since Ford had used the word assassinations, we assumed we were looking for persons who had been murdered—possibly persons who had died under suspicious circumstances. Staying Tuned
Bones assumed Cam had told Wendell already, she had tears welling up when Hodgins kind of scolded her. 'Bones' recap: Brennan, Booth and Bond | EW.com
I assume that you're taking an oral dose of estriol or some combination of estriol, estrone, and estradiol.
The difficulties of childhood now assume quite different proportions.
Champollion wondered if the first hieroglyph in the cartouche, the disc, might represent the sun, and then he assumed its sound value to be that of the Coptic word for sun, ‘ra’.
It is often assumed that oceanic crust consists of a characteristic ‘layer-cake’ sequence of gabbros, sheeted dykes and lavas, as found in many ophiolites.
In the one-day game, the priority is to save every run, and it is the outfielder who assumes hey importance.
Led by the Japanese, we assumed our electronic appliances would miniaturise until we had cameras the size of wine gums. The Guardian World News
We should not assume that peaceful coexistence is possible only if all, or nearly all major nations adopt the same social behaviour. A High Standard
I guess I always assumed as a child that if I was considerate of others and reasoned things out, people would do likewise to and for me.
With her grandfather's and her death, the new church leaders can unimpededly assume power.
I suppose she assumed I would bust into tears again at any moment.
We must assume his comments were deliberately provocative to attract interest to the rather dry topic of female participation in public life.
The overskirt was cut out, so I assumed it would show an underskirt underneath.
It is generally assumed that DNA chains are randomly segregated to daughter cells during mitosis.
His solidarity on that occasion propelled him to assume the general secretaryship of the St Lucia Workers Cooperative Union.
By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the least.
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we assume.
We assume that actions provide the particular moments for apprehending and hence for experientially cognizing the person.
We had all assumed the miniature stela was one of the fakes that are turned out by the hundreds to be sold to gullible tourists. LORD OF THE SILENT
As the government has assumed power over monetary policy in contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of the savers (to say nothing of the provisions of the Constitution), it aggrandizes power.
Let us assume that the leaf is composed of thin, serial layers.
I assume my reputation for arrogant presumption precedes me, so I'll be anything but brief.
He assumed command of the Eighth Army.
Because in fourteen of these traditions the person who quotes her is the fourth-century Babylonian amora Abbaye (278 – 338), it is usually assumed in scholarly circles that she was his mother, and that Em is a description (mother) rather than a name. Female Personalities in the Babylonian Talmud.
With most aircrews traversing hot, desert-like climates, it's easy to assume an arctic survival situation is not in the cards.
Mr. Hadzi assumed the casework for the family on December 2000.
So can a person caged in corporate life begin to assume huge anxieties about petty annoyances.
It has been assumed by some people, especially those with an interest in discrediting George Marshall and the Truman administration, that this truce prevented Chiang from conquering Manchuria .
COCHRAN: Well, it's difficult because, you know, there's, you know, everybody -- I don't want to use the term rush to judgment -- everybody assumes the husband is the suspect and is probably guilty. CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2003
On November 11, 1968, it was abolished and replaced by a republic, and the country assumed its present name.
In that process, because of cultural norms, it was assumed that only men could operate machines.
I don't know what I was thinking when I gathered up provisions for the gathering; I seem to have assumed everyone would have one bottle of wine apiece then turn to the scotch with thirst unslakable.
Professor Ian Stewart, Warwick University maths professor and occasional Telegraph contributor, points out: Reindeer have a curious arrangement of gadgetry on top of their heads which we call antlers and naively assume exist for the males to do battle and to win females. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced. II. Uniformity Of Change
Then gradually it assumed a specific regional identity in the West, developing a strong imaginative appeal to both easterners and westerners.
The moral of this story: Do not assume that I'm friendly and approachable.
Not necessarily: Ratzinger's role under John Paul was one thing; now that he is pope, he will perhaps assume a more pastorly posture. The Vision of Benedict XVI
We tend to assume that everybody has a car these days and will be affected by these increases.
Are we engaging in "presentism" and failing to understand what was done in other times and places if we assume that unmarried men who have no apparent intimate relationships with women had a homosexual orientation whether acted upon or not? Was Washington Irving gay?
I assume that you are quoting Derek accurately and I am copying this letter to him.
When a cow assumes the appearance of what we term a regular buller -- when she is running every day, or every second or third day, or when one or more retire from the herd and assume the habits of the male -- then, and not till then, does the case become utterly hopeless. Cattle and Cattle-breeders
Rebel forces have assumed control of the capital.
assume that the topological space is finite dimensional
With consideration to the strategic review by Miller Tabak and the condition to the transaction with DMRJ. the Company executed an Asset Purchase Agreement and a Note with Skinvera LLC, a company wholly owned by Frank J. Massino, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, whereby Skinvera purchased all assets and assumed all existing liabilities of the Company's skincare business (except for assets and liabilities related to kinetin and zeatin) and received $1.8 million in cash in return for a $1.8 million Secured Promissory Note which bears interest at 6% per annum and is due on the seventh anniversary of the Note. Medindia Health News
The ability to assume different characters and voices helps a story-teller vivify his tale.
You are suggesting that small RNA would assume the function performed by protein amino acyl synthetases and if we presume all the foregoing what leads you to think this mixture would evolve to produce a cell? Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?
The beauty of "Add to Cart" is that it is non-committal and assumes the user is still looking around.
The assumed relation between purchase of foodstuffs and food consumption is probably reasonable.
He will replace acting chief administrative officer Gary Stephany, who will assume his former post of assistant administrative officer.
In their capacity as culture brokers boatmen also assume a position of authority when guiding pilgrims, selectively informing them about the city.
We could make it a self-fulfilling prophecy if we assume they have civility and regard them all and treat them all as one.
Jim Paton will assume the role of managing director.
He argues that Marxist accounts assume that the phenomenon occurs solely due to the needs of corporations and their owners.
If this happens at every gig I am going to have to assume I have indeed angered gods of some kind.
Long also assumed that, like sunlight, most cosmic rays were reflected by the Earth's atmosphere, and that as one rose higher above the Earth, the energy from cosmic rays would grow stronger until they would heat Pat Marsh's balloon hundreds of degrees when it rose above the stratopause. Diagnosing "Cosmic Fever"
A man of the cloth commands respect. It is assumed that a man of god is somehow better than the rest of us.
While ostensibly the pie plate would serve to prevent the derailleur from inadvertently and tragically wandering into the spokes like a Nü-Fred jumping into the Gimbels Ride, in the absence of any sort of rear mech "rear mech" is Yiddish for derailleur--the "ch" is guttural I can only assume the pie plate is vestigial. New Customs: Changing Language, Changing Bikes

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