(n.) The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
(n.) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
(n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
(n.) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
(n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.
(n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assumption was also corroborated using reagents from a family in which DR3 and DQw2 were not found in the usually described linkage.
(2) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
(3) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(4) The findings support the assumption that changes in tubular Na+ transport probably participate in the changes of tubular amino acid transport in elderly individuals.
(5) Thus neither the presence of changes in RS-T segment or T wave nor the absence of QRS changes are mandatory for the diagnosis of SEMI; this invalidates the common assumption that the diagnosis is not justified unless these conditions are met.
(6) The rationale for this assumption seems logical because using all of the available accommodation is not sustainable without discomfort.
(7) It requires the assumption that there is no isotopic exchange between lactate and other compounds, yet experimental evidence indicates that lactate and pyruvate are in rapid equilibrium.
(8) Retrograde extrapolation is applicable in the forensic setting with scientific reliability when reasonable and justifiable assumptions are utilized.
(9) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(10) These findings lend new support to the assumption of the bifunctional property of IGFBP-3, which would have an effect outside the cell (binding of IGF in the medium) and another effect within cells or on the surface.
(11) The absence of proliferation control violates the general assumption that idiotypic interactions play an important role in immune regulation.
(12) Experiment 4 replicated these findings with children, indicating that the assumption of a correlation between word and visual complexity exists during the period of intense vocabulary growth.
(13) Mean open-loop gains calculated under this assumption were 1.64 for the CS system alone, 0.89 for the V system alone, and 6.59 for the interacting component between them.
(14) Yet the OBR’s list of basic assumptions in its 260-page report on the economic and fiscal outlook this week are not exactly controversial: the UK to leave the EU in 2019; slower import and export growth in the transitional period; a tighter migration regime.
(15) In conclusion, shape analysis and pattern recognition techniques can be used to forego dependence on the numerous assumptions and approximations required by traditional wall motion techniques, while providing performance characteristics that are similar to, and in some instances better than, traditional approaches.
(16) Published estimates of radiation dose to the gonads from 131I therapy of Graves' disease vary widely, largely because of differences in assumptions regarding the details of iodine kinetics.
(17) This reconstruction only requires very general assumptions, such as tracer-tracee indistinguishability and mass conservation; in particular it is independent of the glucose model structure, i.e., number of compartments and their interconnections.
(18) The authors expressed in 1984 the assumption that lithium is the drug of the phenomenon of suicidal action in affective disorders.
(19) Estimates of the number of eventual TA-AIDS cases to be seen are considerably more uncertain and require additional assumptions about the incubation distribution.
(20) Although epistatic selection cannot be completely ruled out, our results are better explained under the assumption of neutrality.
Effrontery
Definition:
(n.) Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anyway, he stood up there gripping the railing, and he was furious at the effrontery of this, and I guess he could already see that his plan was in danger.
(2) That corporations are people was not the great effrontery of the US supreme court's evisceration of democratic principle.
(3) Choking back tears of fury and laughter at the sheer effrontery of it all, Ronald Koeman will endeavour to keep a straight face while demanding £50m.
(4) Nobody had that effrontery to wear those kinds of outfits before."
(5) The effrontery of Cameron’s speech last Friday , opening public services to more privatising, suggests they are recklessly off the leash.
(6) No council leader would have had Livingstone’s shameless effrontery to suggest that those trying to stop the Heron Tower erupting on the skyline were the “heritage Taliban” .
(7) The other factor is that governments have become more vindictive in their pursuit of those who have had the effrontery to tell the truth about their activities.
(8) The sheer, sexist, chauvinistic, patronising effrontery of the man!
(9) He is not used to being confronted by people who have the power, the skill and the simple effrontery to challenge him – and to keep on challenging him.
(10) As the editor in question, I am not able to compete with Murdoch in fabrication – he has had a lifetime of experience – but I do happen to have retained my memory of the year editing the Times, made notes, kept documents and even had the effrontery to write a whole bestselling book about it in 1983, called Good Times, Bad Times.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest London’s Heron Tower: ‘Ken Livingstone had the shameless effrontery to suggest that those trying to stop it erupting on the skyline were the heritage Taliban.’ Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian It was a destiny made manifest in his decisions on everything from aesthetics to congestion charging.
(12) It is hard to put it better than the man who, during the election, reacted to the endorsement of the Conservative anti-tax campaign by Sir Philip and other big business beasts by saying: "I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.
(13) He was already working at the extremes of the domestic and the risqué; his placid mother and child carvings contrasting with the sheer effrontery of such works as Votes for Women, an explicit carving showing the act of intercourse, woman of course on top.
(14) The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, said: "I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.
(15) The story continues thus: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 4.29pm BST 4.20pm BST Probably little more than barefaced effrontery on Brazil's part, but here's more on that Thiago Silva story .
(16) Osborne's jaw-dropping effrontery often leaves opponents winded.
(17) Avant-garde aesthetics and feminist politics now combined to produce an art of fearless effrontery.
(18) What effrontery for health ministers to flourish a list of 53 organisations they claim support the bill, including all the royal colleges, the King's Fund and the entire panoply of the medical establishment – without asking their permission.
(19) After reading about 400 graduates applying for an internship, the effrontery of being expected to pay £4.50 for a watery beer in a badly decorated pub is enough to make you want to stay in.
(20) Perhaps his effrontery inspired Tettey in the 32nd minute, when Hoolahan's cross was headed out to him.