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  • 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.
  • But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
  • The old, merry Whiting looked sideways at Richard, then the round face assumed an expression of diffident humility for Mr. Hanks. Morgan’s Run
  • Second, lump sum payments are worked out on the basis of an assumed life expectancy.
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  • Montresor assumed an air of indifference again.
  • You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
  • This matter has assumed considerable importance.
  • Johnson regained his composure and reassumed his position behind the podium. The Sportsman's Daily: Phelps' "Bong Binge" Gives Agent Severe Case of Paranoia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • I assumed that I would be bowled out of that fairly sharpish, as presumably all the best players would have made it through.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the one-step ahead forecasting situation, we assumed that the industrial practitioners updated their data quarterly.
  • 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.
  • Above all, the female body was assumed to be moulded, enclosed: all openings sealed, all passage denied.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • The court assumed responsibility for the girl's welfare.
  • He had never entered the lottery before and he had assumed that his entry form would be stamped with a code of some sort.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Trial by blessed bread was a test for priests, for it was assumed guilty clergy would choke on hallowed food.
  • Geography—note: 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Led by the Japanese, we assumed our electronic appliances would miniaturise until we had cameras the size of wine gums. The Guardian World News
  • 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.
  • I suppose she assumed I would bust into tears again at any moment.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mr. Hadzi assumed the casework for the family on December 2000.
  • 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 .
  • 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.
  • —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.
  • Rebel forces have assumed control of the capital.
  • 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 assumed relation between purchase of foodstuffs and food consumption is probably reasonable.
  • 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.
  • We have assumed that stylistics investigates the relation between the writer's artistic achievement, and how it is achieved through language.
  • Overall, this is a timely and useful review of a topic that has assumed major importance in health care.
  • Against error accumulation and computation complexity, a novel spirality interpolation sequence scheme is assumed, whichimproves precision of interpolation and reduces maximum error of interpolation.
  • This is not an analogy to the DNA coding system because starlight existed long before humans (assumedly.) Attached to Strings
  • It is assumed in this book that it is important to consider economic change more broadly than is habitually done.
  • There were quite a few good modern authors, including some in English; Maigret assumed the solicitor had spoken the language fluently. Maigret and Monsieur Charles
  • From this instance it may be assumed that the hilum may only be defined correctly as the spot of union between the body of the seed and the funiculus. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • I already have issues with the term "ally" because it is built on assumed power and privilege and allies are often given far too much face time. Bruce Reyes-Chow: The Ally Dilemma on National Coming Out Day
  • To the Volunteers, such was simply unthinkable, and they had automatically assumed that the people thought likewise.
  • Her legs had been amputated above the knee, long ago, he assumed. What Is Life?
  • A freed slave generally assumed his former master's praenomen and nomen.
  • And so on the City College campus a vague and indistinctly demarcated intellectual struggle assumed, amazingly, the form of melodrama.
  • Ironically, Galileo Galilei spotted Neptune more than 200 years earlier but wrongly assumed the planet was just a star.
  • After more than a decade in which the balanced budget had assumed quasi-religious status, many were suddenly converted to the necessity of a major dose of deficit spending.
  • He has noted that population size is an important element in determining population diversity which is usually assumed to derive from the antiquity of a population.
  • Take an eight-hour course in most of the smart states and you qualify for a concealed weapons permit; note that owning a firearm is already assumed in those states. The Volokh Conspiracy » Changes in the Gun Culture over the last 25 years
  • June 3, 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the father of my deceased colleague, assumed the command of the Army of Northern Virginia three days after the retiracy of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, caused by a wound received in the battle of Seven Pines. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session
  • I consider this a big improvement, although when I ordered what I assumed was my favorite cold appetizer of tofu and minced wild greens, I ended up with a hot platter of brothy slivered bean curd instead.
  • By mid February he had assumed control of the city in a remarkable bloodless coup.
  • But, on the other hand, it would appear that as the zikkurat developed from a one-story edifice into a tower, and as the number of the stages increased, the zikkurat assumed more of an ornamental character. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
  • Secrecy was a keyword in their job, and Byron knew his partner assumed, from the terse explanation, that something unforeseen had happened.
  • As they have been realised, the dreams themselves have assumed a peculiar character of sobriety, of the spirit of positivism, and beyond that, of boredom.
  • They would ask me then to take them to what they called pickups, and I assumed what they were doing was collecting the big, but what they were really doing was robbing these places. CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2001
  • The merchant maintains that the day for obeying the New Testament rule, "Let the wife fear her husband," will never pass away; that although unfaithfulness, which is assumed to be impossible on the part of the wife, may happen in other classes, in the merchant class it does not happen, and that the carouses of married men at the fair, which the narrator has heard him relating, and of which he reminds him, form a special topic which must be excluded from the discussion. Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"
  • It was assumed to be a traveler's version of the widespread tropical deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, from a Gold Coast term meaning "displaced child. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
  • The Royal Navy assumed that Raeder, the head of the German Navy, would not tolerate three ships remaining in harbour and not doing anything.
  • Submarines also engaged enemy combatant ships and auxiliary vessels, pursuing combat operations in assumed or reconnoitered combat designation areas of enemy task forces and on their deployment routes.
  • There was a knock at the door. Now Jan knew her mother had promised to visit, so she assumed it was her.
  • We assumed a new method.
  • She had assumed that coelura were no longer available. The Coelura
  • It is perfectly realistic to imagine a helical arrangement of straight molecules, as already assumed.
  • In fact, Baroness Staffe wasn't an aristocrat at all but plain Blanche Soyer, a product of the middle classes, who had assumed the title as her nom de plume. A Nation Holding Out for a Hero
  • The horseman was older than Bahzell had assumed from his voice and the way he sat his horse.
  • And, the big whopper is that the new provisions are RETROACTIVE to the DATE OF ENACTMENT of FISA, which is 1978, or well before Bush assumed office. Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: June 14, 2006
  • Early models assumed that all magnetotactic bacteria are microaerophiles and indigenous in sediments.
  • For many years, historians and scientists assumed that the Incas had created both the llamas and alpacas by domesticating the guanaco, which is larger and more widely distributed than the vicuna.
  • If, on the other hand, as was assumed in crystallography, a regular arrangement of the atoms or the molecules in a space lattice was the basis of the shapes of the natural crystals, then, according to estimates, the distances of the points of the lattice ought to be exactly of that order of magnitude that was required for the decomposition of X-radiation in a spectrum. Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 - Presentation Speech
  • As the coast became clear he advanced on tiptoe to the central office and assumed power, pausing only to open the royal refrigerator and slap together a deviled ham sandwich.
  • Sarah walked over to the antique dresser and mirror set and assumed a gloomy appearance. ‘After all, my grandmother just died,’ she thought.
  • She says that this view of women as marginal to tantra is based on western constructions of gender & power (and their assumed universality) and she re-presents women as active participants in the creation of traditions.
  • valorization," a governmental scheme of Brazil, by which the public treasury has assumed to purchase and hold a certain percentage of the coffee grown there, in order to prevent a decline of the price. All About Coffee
  • Critics argued that the concept assumed an adversarial process, whereas most legal matters call for peacemaking.
  • Researchers had previously been unable to determine the virus's structure because they had assumed that, like many other viruses, it's capsid had a design known as icosahedral symmetry. Health News from Medical News Today
  • In the solvent-permeable and ion- penetrable porous surface layer of the particle, idealized hydrodynamic frictional segments with fixed charges are assumed to distribute at a uniform density.
  • However, the court assumed that Rearden had raised a triable issue of fact on use as a mark and turned to a confusion analysis. Archive 2009-01-01
  • -- Captain A. Carlton, late of the Light Dragoons, has just succeeded to the title and estates of his great grandfather, the late Earl of Castlemere, which title had lain dormant for several years, in consequence of the only son of the late nobleman never having assumed the title, and died in obscurity abroad, and we, learn that the new Earl is about to lead to the hymenial altar the beautiful Miss Vellenaux A Novel
  • Since the distribution of values for genes whose expression decreased twofold or more were bounded between 0 and 0.5, we assumed that the variances were not equal for the comparison of these genes.
  • The construction was rightly criticised as requiring a knowledge of the ratio of a line and an arc of a circle, so one assumed as known the property required to square the circle in the first place.
  • I was too softhearted to ... well ... misborn usually die young anyway, and I assumed that her nature would take care of the problems she represented for me. The Black Gryphon
  • He assumed full charge of the firm in his father's absence.
  • This was followed by intervention, by an ... intensification of the class struggle, which assumed the form of civil war.
  • Probably it was also in this way that Byzantine titles and ceremonial were introduced into Central Europe, and that Central and Eastern European official life assumed its hierarchical and bureaucratical character. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • We have assumed that stylistics investigates the relation between the writer's artistic achievement, and how it is achieved through language.
  • Beyond it was what Jamie referred to as "the doocot"; or so I assumed, from the assorted pigeons that were fluttering in and out of the pierced-work opening at the top of the building. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • a kind of taffeta-lining to the Crown, his servility has assumed an air of the most determined independence, and he has The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
  • In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine. Between War and Peace
  • I just assumed you were a mere mortal like the rest of us.
  • On the other hand, the Church assumed control of all levels of state education, and the lectures of professors at the Central University of Madrid were censored, to stop French ideas seeping into Spain.
  • After a passing threat in the 1960s that the British government might put an air base on Aldabra, and a public outcry against that bad idea much like the outcry that Darwin had joined earlier, the Royal Society of London assumed protectorship of the atoll. The Song of The Dodo
  • I had assumed that everyone (and Jessica in particular) would understand my comment as a silly joke.
  • However, we may consider a simple model in which the feather is assumed to be an isolated, flat, rigid object in a uniform airstream.
  • These columns moved forward on the surface of the sea, and the clouds not following them with equal rapidity, they assumed a bent or incurvated shape, and frequently appeared crossing each other, evidently proceeding in different directions; from whence we concluded, that it being calm, each of these water-spouts caused a wind of its own. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
  • (It is assumed that no more than two lines intersect at any point inside the circle).
  • The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory.
  • There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon.
  • Another weakness was that the assumed values for portion sizes, distributions of fish species in meals, and food contents of nutrients are only approximations to the true values.
  • But the intolerable thudding forced her back onto the vanity stool, where there she reassumed her daily shape: poor sad, achingly human Beverly Saunders, to whom no Dr. Alfred Curie would ever deign to speak. The Color of Silence is Radium Green
  • The long sustained deception has been dropped," says a paragraphist, "and the young man who assumed the name of 'Madame Zoyara' is now to be seen in correct masculine attire. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
  • Usually, to make the problem tractable, the molecules are assumed to be spherical and the reactive patches are assumed to be circular.
  • Although this has by no means been proved, yet I cannot help calling the attention of the members of this society to a fact which I think strongly bears out the said theory: While watching a gathering of _Vaucheria_ one morning when the plant was in the gonidia-forming condition (which is usually assumed a few hours after daybreak), I observed one filament, near the end of which a septum had formed precisely as in the case of ordinary filaments about to develop a spore. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884
  • It's usually assumed that beauty is, almost tautologically, an ‘aesthetic’ category, which puts it, according to many, on a collision course with the ethical.
  • We assumed that something was wrong with the reel - but there wasn't - the fish at that point had simply been pulling over 90 lb of drag.
  • It is that last hazard that has assumed epidemic proportions recently.
  • As he pulled the dead body from the spring the water became agitated, and from the bubbles arose a vapor that gradually assumed the form of a venerable Indian, with long white locks, in whom the murderer recognized Waukauga, father of the Shoshone and Comanche nation, and a man whose heroism and goodness made his name revered in both these tribes. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 07 : Along the Rocky Range
  • Instead, it has itself assumed the role of a prop.
  • Now, call me naive / unobservant / clueless, but I didn't realise that Qurious was designed for a slightly less heterosexual patron than I. I simply assumed the owner was rather indecisive on choice of colour scheme.
  • Nonetheless, conceptions of Australian science have largely remained bound by the top-down perspective assumed by the diffusionist model.
  • Pinpoint positional kicking was awarded with two further three pointers, and Oxford assumed a narrow lead.
  • * It never occured to me, that she did not have any time to organize them, I just assumed it was some kind of neglectful lazy oversight on her part, and felt genetically ashamed that a) she could not seem to keep her coupons organized and b) that we were the kind of family that needed to use coupons. Wendchymes Diary Entry
  • Settlers mined it for building stone, and the fort soon assumed the appearance of an ancient ruin.
  • I was a little uncomfortable to say the least when I saw members of the cast were blacked up but I assumed they must have been given permission to do so.
  • As it was about one p.m. we assumed that he had just stopped by for lunch but when he had finished eating he took from his car a large wok-like pan and started panning the gravel from the river bed.
  • Perhaps not NDS specifically, but "modern evolutionary theory," "standard model of evolution" and whatever else you want to call it has always assumed evolution proceeds by incremental small changes in phenotype by virtue of the relative success of certain minor variations. Approaching Difference, Not Likeness
  • It is often assumed that “moral subjectivism” must denote a kind of lumpish relativism according to which whatever sentiments an individual happens to have determine the moral truth for that person; it is often assumed that moral subjectivism would therefore render incoherent the ideas of moral improvement, moral criticism, and moral disagreement. Moral Anti-Realism
  • It is commonly assumed that the animals associated with certain deities are sacred because the god was originally theriomorphic; this is doubtless the case in certain instances; but Apollo Smintheus, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • A member of the militant Egyptian group al-Jihad, bin Laden's former chief of security, and before that one of his bodyguards, al-Adel is believed by intelligence officials to have assumed the role of al-Qaeda's military commander — making him No. 3 in the organization. Pharaohs-in-Waiting
  • Species are often assumed to have evolved from a common ancestor by a complete process of branching, followed by complete genetic isolation.
  • The worst of the current raids may be that many of us assumed, expected, even demanded, that the Obama administration would back off from Bush's Imperial Presidency project, in which the federal administration arrogated to itself the right to investigate, harass, and even arrest without trial anyone who they considered to be dangerous to their "national security" policies. Michael Schwartz: Unfortunately, Obama Is Expanding the Imperial Presidency
  • Historically, nonoliguric renal failure has been assumed to have a better outcome than oliguric renal failure.
  • He assumed direct control of key ministries.
  • It is often falsely assumed that the value of good design lies largely in the first category.
  • Because of its mutable, unstable, and floating quality, eroticism often turns up in places where it might be assumed to have been completely eradicated.
  • Formal education and training for adult life assumed differing destinies for boys and for girls and for differing levels in society.
  • The Borrower also warrants that it has obtained all other necessary consents to ensure that obligations that it has assumed under the Agreement are legal, valid, binding and enforceable.
  • We assumed, in the statistical model, that censoring was independent of breast cancer risk within each stratum of stress.
  • The fact that it is rarely transmitted from one human being to another means that it has never assumed epidemic proportions in human society, though it may do so in cattle and other animals.
  • The Spanish language even has a verb, sabadear, which refers to praying on the Sabbath, for the unknowing Christian assumed that the swaying motion of the Jew during the Amidah was a special part of the Sabbath prayer. Conversas.
  • The secretary general said that the figure is assumed to be "underreported" because of the difficulty in gaining access to conflict areas. BBC News - Home
  • I make whipped cream all the time with my eggbeater so I assumed that a meringue could hardly be all that more work. Aunt Margaret's strawberry delight | Homesick Texan
  • Without Limmer, there would be no Gimblett Gravels, that shingly region of Hawke's Bay that has assumed legendary winegrowing properties.
  • That becomes just another datum assumed when choosing amongst alternative choices.
  • By A.D. 54-5, militant activity had again assumed epidemic proportions.
  • Variable and fixed costs are traditionally assumed to be linear. Describe why this assumption is unrealistic.
  • He had gone to Allahabad and assumed the title of padishah. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
  • Such inaction provides an ideal foil which leaves their assumed image of heterosexuality intact.
  • “His wife makes a lovely chatelaine, and Oom Hendrik has assumed the congenial functions of cellarer and chaplain.” The Five of Hearts
  • He innocently assumed that a steel cover placed over a drainpipe was safe to walk on.
  • It is assumed that holders of other sequestered shares will now try to regain their voting rights.
  • It is also assumed that a bimbo is unintelligent, couldn't possibly have an interest in anything other than clothes and make-up.
  • For all simulations, isothermal and isobaric conditions were assumed.
  • While laws of nature can, and do, formally account for such cases, there is no explanation of E's nonoccurrence in terms of the natural forces that it is usually assumed to be the concern of laws of nature to describe. Miracles
  • Maybe my memory was playing tricks on me - maybe I had seen so many clips from the film and knockoffs that I assumed I'd seen it in my youth.
  • Her curvaceousness; the symmetry of her face; the sensuousness of her eyes; each assumed a threatening quality.
  • In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine. Between War and Peace
  • Binding and catalytic events are assumed to occur in accordance with their reaction stoichiometry.
  • When I first heard about this book back in 2007, I assumed in was some kind of pulpy zombie novel mixed in with some Band of Brothers for good measure. Rabid Reads: "World War Z" by Max Brooks
  • At night I observed the latitude of our camp, by alpha Aquilae 34 degrees 12 minutes 52 seconds S. by beta Leonis 34 degrees 12 minutes 35 seconds S. and assumed the mean of the two, or 34 degrees 12 minutes 43 seconds as the correct one. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
  • Initially, he'd assumed that geeks and nerds were by default withdrawn, shy, mostly losers.
  • Previous models assumed that tolerant larvae could not fight and would always be found and hence killed by any intolerant larvae if present.
  • In Belfast we assumed that the number of socially-patterned variables that we might uncover could well run into the hundreds.
  • Until now neuroscientists have assumed that in primate brains simple movements are "hard-wired" while complex behaviors are learned. Science Press Releases

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