Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.

In art criticism, you must assume the artist has a secret message hidden within the work.

It is wrong to assume arts groups cannot make a profit.

It was assumed that those people for whom the role of volunteer was most part of their personal identity would also be most likely to continue volunteer work.

We all assumed there would be one in the flat when we moved in, because that's what we read from the advertisement in the newspaper.

We are so fond of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to brain power, more must be better.

We assume that a large brain makes huge advantages.

The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

In contrast, the researchers continue, many regulations that don't assume people make rational choices have been successfully applied to control alcohol, a substance — like food — of which immoderate consumption leads to serious health problems.

The biggest problem is that couples assume each other know what's going on with their finances, but they don't.

As long as you don't mind continuing to work, assuming your health allows, you should be OK.

We were not only assumed to be thieves, but brilliant, greedy thieves.

I am not a mathematician, but I assume the rise from 70p to 90p is a rise of 25 percent.

I assume you've got big plans then.

The article says many people tend to assume that innovation just means creating something new, but actually it's more than that.

This view assumes that rich societies will invest in environmental care.

In schools, teachers and pupils alike often assume that if a concept has been easy to learn, then the lesson has been successful.

People often assume that more money will make them happier

Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year's Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).

Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, agai of diversity―a word that has assumed magic power in American higher education.

Assuming that your teacher is neither biased nor corrupt and that her system conforms to school rules, you can't fault her ethics.

And the ice sheet was assumed to have been stable.

Many people assume that our attitudes are internally consistent, that is, the way you think and feel about someone or something predicts your behavior towards them.

Now, that's gross earnings, I assume.

It assumes, falsely, I think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.

You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

The basic compact underlying representative government, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the court,” assumes that public officials will hear from their constituents and act on their concerns.

\Many young people assume a great deal of personal responsibility for educating themselves and actively seeking out opposing viewpoints,\  the survey concluded.

Dr Kroo and his team modeled what would happen if three passenger jets departing from Los Angeles San Francisco and Las Vegas were to assemble over Utah,assume an inverted V-formation, occasionally change places so all could have a turn in the most favour

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertises assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?

Indeed, while you might assume that an exhibition of Land Art would consist only of records of works rather than the works themselves, Long's photograph of his work is the work.