Presume Sentence Examples

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  • I presume it will be tied to the call center eventually.

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  • Jackson, I presume was his name, jumped up.

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  • I presume that's just what Mrs. Worthington's sister thought when she opened her trunk.

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  • Thus then, according to the philologists, arose the myth that fire was stolen, a myth which, we presume, would not otherwise have occurred to Greeks.

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  • The date of publication is, however, fixed as 1617 by a letter from Sir Henry Bourchier to Usher, dated December 6, 1617, containing the passage- " Our kind friend, Mr Briggs, hath lately published a supplement to the most excellent tables of logarithms, which I presume he has sent to you."

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  • As carbon tends to hold the atom attached to it, one may presume that this property expresses itself in a predominant way where the other element is carbon also, and so the linkage represented by -C-C-is one of the most difficult to loosen.

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  • In a threefold vision Jesus is invited to enter upon His inheritance at once; to satisfy His own needs, to accept of earthly dominion, to presume on the Divine protection.

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  • You've done this before, I presume?

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  • Linda, Traci, Sofia, I presume.

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  • We presume the wires are for canoe slalom course.

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  • So Fishcox - I presume you are not suggesting we abandon the posting agreement and allow a complete free-for-all?

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  • On the Northgate we had got our first reaction in the form of car hooters, we presume sounded in approval.

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  • When they split, Jesse Michaels (singer) went onto join Common Ride I believe I presume your into all the older lookout!

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  • Quite why he felt unable to openly declare this interest in his little missive I would not presume to speculate.

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  • Most statistics books and most data analysts wrongly presume it's always a problem.

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  • I presume it has gone out of print which is a real shame.

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  • Thus it seems impossible, and for many unwise, to presume that anyone has a privileged and unbiased epistemological standpoint.

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  • Skulls are rarely visible on a battlefield for more than two or three seasons after the fight, and we may therefore presume that it was during the reign of Inarus (460-454 B.C.), 2 when the Athenians had great authority in Egypt, that he visited the country, making himself known as a learned Greek, and therefore receiving favour and attention on the part of the Egyptians, who were so much beholden to his countrymen (see Athens, Cimon, Pericles).

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  • In those cases where people disappear under circumstances which create a strong probability of death, the court may, for the purpose of probate or administration, presume the death before the lapse of seven years.

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  • In analytic we work with an ethos different from that of dialectic. We presume truth and not probability or concession, but a true conclusion can follow from false premises, and it is only in the attempt to derive the premises in turn from their grounds that we unmask the deception.

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  • But Warwick was one of those ministers who love to do everything for themselves, and chafe at masters and colleagues who presume to check or to criticise their actions.

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  • I would not presume to refute what you say.

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  • He had a solid judgment joined to the most unaffected simplicity; and hence, I presume, he had his name of Candide.

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  • I presume that you measure around the point where the waistband of the trousers will naturally sit.

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  • In many parts of the United States, laws of joint custody presume that this is the arrangement the parents and child will be operating with.

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  • This leads us to presume he is the main playable character in the story.

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  • You know about strangers I presume.

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  • Count Dracula I presume?

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  • They are apparently offered in place of those of Aristotle, an acquaintance with whose distinctions they clearly presume.

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  • None could presume to challenge the authority of the Committee of Public Safety, and in the committee none disputed the leadership of Robespierre.

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  • There were buoys that marked, what I presume was the dredged channel.

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  • John Terry. i presume your saying sol campbell and Ashley cole arent english or worthy?

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  • Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

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  • So we expect a dust-bowl from day one; You have mushy (I presume) and we can raise you Marshall and Keedy.

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  • Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man.

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  • Unlike gift cards for a specific store, the Simon card does not force purchasers to presume what the recipient will want to buy.

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  • Many people presume that all African American skin types are somewhat dry.

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  • I won't presume to assume I know the motives of the former girlfriend, and her motives aren't really that important.

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  • We can presume that the television Johnny Smith will survive to predict and rescue for a long time, especially if the ratings hold up.

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  • The ruling men use an Old Testament tale to justify what is essentially human slavery, and like all people who presume to legislate the morals of others are ultimate hypocrites in how they choose to live.

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  • Since both of these are fairly subjective motivations, this article will simply presume that you have good reasons for wanting to use one to surf the web.

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  • The facts are ill recorded, but it is safe to presume that intriguers who wished to disturb the government of Henry VII.

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  • They spoke a different language and had developed an altogether different civilization, and it is not unreasonable to presume that they were related to some earlier race of southern Mexico.

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  • He takes courage from the reflection that to accept scepticism is to presume the competence of the thought that accepts.

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  • From this point (c. 1150 B.C.) - the point at which (roughly) the monarchic history of Israel in Palestine opens - Egyptian records cease to mention Kheta; and as we know from other sources that the latter continued powerful in Carchemish for some centuries to come, we must presume that the rise of the Israelite state interposed an effective political barrier.

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  • But also we are drawn by the faults of our heretical opponents to do things unlawful, to scale heights inaccessible, to speak out what is unspeakable, to presume where we ought not.

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