It has been hypothesized that some components of the Mediterranean diet may provide protection against skin cancer.

That assumption appeared plausible.

And they start up that path by accepting a core proposition, and that proposition is the following Lying is a cooperative act.

The data clearly supports this view.

That assumption appears to be closer to reality.

In fact, the evidence does not always support this assumption.

This presumption is almost certainly mistaken.

I have called this presumption a quasi Marxist fallacy.

In fact, this is partly the case.

So it can be assumed that the rest still stands.

That assumption is the heart of democracy it is a revolution for diplomacy.

An underlying assumption of the panel's recommendations was that appropriate supporting national legislation would be in place.

But this would ignore a fundamental asymmetry between advanced and emerging countries.

To give this presumption teeth, it should be included in international trade and investment agreements.

We must of course protect ourselves in the most serious and determined manner from the threat that terrorism may pose should, say, extremists acquire nuclear or biological weapons.

But, even under this adventurous assumption, human rights issues arise.

If the former case obtained, the element of intent must be reflected in the text.

The world economy is hard wired to the assumption of a strong America, and Americans benefit from this. But the more their politicians argue over the debt ceiling, the greater the risk that the wiring will become irreparably frayed.

While rejection of this presumption landed Michael Boskin, Chairman of President George H.W. Bush s Council of Economic Advisers, in rough political waters, the presumption prompted a reporter to go and check the matter for himself.

This hypothesis must be further investigated with the greatest possible care.

That assumption was dangerous, because debt contracts have important implications for economic stability.

But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey s geo political position.

That, the Fed and the Treasury believed, could not be healthy.

This hypothesis was an important step in disproving the ancient assumption that atoms were indivisible.

How we feel about it, or how we regard it, is another.

Criticisms The natural rate hypothesis makes the fundamental assumption that there exists a unique equilibrium level of unemployment.

That was the starting point, or presupposition, of my statement today and also a motive for my coming here.

But how lazy that assumption seems now, given all that has since happened.

Keynes thought that the chief implicit assumption underlying the classical theory of the economy was that of perfect knowledge.

If the assumption or the model is wrong, so is the estimate.

The European Union Directive as well as domestic legislation in the United States and other countries operated on that assumption.

The second MDG related assumption is that institutional capacity is available in all of the poor countries.

The world economy is hard wired to the assumption of a strong America, and Americans benefit from this.

But the more their politicians argue over the debt ceiling, the greater the risk that the wiring will become irreparably frayed.

This proposition was recently tested anew on Icelandic data and performed well.

Watson is right that questioning this assumption is not, in itself, racist.

Another, related, fallacy is the assumption that reforms can reap benefits only in the long run.

The first of these two hypotheses remains far fetched. But there is evidence that the second has already started to come to pass, with serious implications for the way that modern economies have attempted to meet the challenges of globalization.

Larry Summers and I both doubted that this could be generally true.

The overwhelming desire of society today is to assume that equal powers of reason are a universal heritage of humanity.

Dump that far fetched assumption and the cost could jump by a factor of ten or even 100.

Based on the premise that the Defence case will take as much time as the Prosecution case, a further 101 trial days will required for the Defence case.

First, scientific and technological achievements are the common heritage of humanity and are not the monopoly of some nations.

We had a financial regulatory regime based on the assumptions that traders were rational creatures who wouldn't do anything stupid.

The presumption was that the outcome of such a process almost surely would be a managing director from an emerging market country.