Use "assuming" in a sentence

1. But two witnesses are a must (assuming that they too won't be killed in action or go under)

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2. "Assuming you wish to help of course

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3. He nodded vigorously, assuming that this would provide the necessary proof

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4. The thug, and I was assuming this was Sammy the Shark, would have cut a ruggedly stylish figure except for the filthy looking street tattoos all over his arms and creeping up the visible side of his face to the left temple

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5. "We are assuming that we will need to use coercion to convert the natives, is there no chance the message alone might be enough?"

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6. I heard odd scufflings and the opening and closing of doors, assuming that it was my guards moving about my new and as yet undiscovered home

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7. I tried to rationalise my way through the long days, assuming that it must be far too risky for my fellow prisoners to communicate every day

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8. That being the case, and assuming it was nothing to do with the JJ issue – after all, why would anyone bother with such a personal thing? – it had to be something to do with her job …

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9. They knew Alan intended to reach this city, but they couldn't manufacture enough probes to watch the piers, assuming he would get here across these docks

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10. But leaving that aside, the journey to Minca will take several weeks, I should think, and assuming that I retrieve that Element and return safely, I shall have a long journey across Europe to get to the last touching place … if I don’t get going on that fairly quickly, the winter will take hold and I shall not be able to go until the spring

11. ‘No …’ he conceded ‘Also, they can’t know which order you are intending to retrieve them … the Ercolano episode may just have been them assuming you would act because the volcano was near to eruption

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12. “need I remind you what it said?” She stood, assuming her role as leader, “Never again will a world die because of us

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13. Rather than assuming it is related to you and leaping to negative conclusions about your promotion, you could say to yourself, “He"s probably just stressed about a deadline or other problem

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14. "Assuming the one doing the encapsulating has perfect knowledge of the universe or universes he is simulating

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15. His wife looked at him sternly, crossing her arms and assuming

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16. ' Mandy followed her glance and was about to boast of her recent tour in the new bungalows, anxious to to share her experience with some friendly ear; when the woman remarked snidely, “I can't see where they get off, putting on airs and assuming they can just buy a station in the community that's so obviously above their rank or right place!”

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17. When the mortuary technician found him on his knees in the mortuary’s ante-room, he tried to help, making a sustained but weary effort to persuade Billy to sit down and have a cup of tea, assuming that he was related to the girl on the trolley, but there were no handles by which he could get a hold of the flaking singer

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18. She knew from his old pictures that he had looked like a very old man for many centuries, not assuming his present appearance til the 40th century

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19. ‘So, assuming that she stays in this condition – what options are there?’ he asked, looking directly at the doctor standing beside him

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20. “I wonder if this is a case where we can make progress by assuming lie minimization?” Shaney asked

21. Assuming a fierce face, with tea towel in hand, I storm into the kitchen to face my assailant

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22. Who’s to say how long each of us has to spend here, in the physical world? We go along assuming we have three score years and ten, or nearer four score and ten these days, and consider ourselves short changed if a lifespan is anything less

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23. I explain: someone says something to you assuming you will understand exactly what he has in mind

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24. “You’re assuming he was raped

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25. of the city, assuming that this is an honest

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26. Perfect awareness—having passed the swell of time, I remain in history—looked at as an ass for assuming To communicate what I might—repressing some saving Grace from myself, not knowing if I deserve it—“I would Have it as it is, rather than not have it at all?”—Should A saving grace be given to thieves, tress-passers, Law-breakers—a solution is pain reduction, and life sustenance, Not pride games and social repression—the endorphins Replete of all respect find endurance through pompous Wanderings of the ego in control—the ego who would Take the blame and ends up being the only one to know Its great reward—to hide this scar, to pretend it did not 68

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27. on your side, the faster things can move, that is, assuming they are

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28. give me some money, assuming that I no

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29. His mistake lays in assuming that Romania could

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30. with someone who has the technical skills (assuming you do not)

31. in assuming that? But first the bandits, and now this! I could hear

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32. twenty year old murderer for the next 50 years (assuming his life span to be

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33. But she could pick at it as she made her way back down the ridge to the cave, assuming and hoping that Mercer had limped his way into it by now

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34. “You know, you really have a bad habit of assuming things, especially about me

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35. A few soldiers rushed to come to the stranger’s aid, assuming he had been a victim of highwaymen or wild animals

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36. "Are you okay?" I shouted, assuming they were uninfected

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37. So, does that mean the remaining seven billion people on Earth are assuming unimportant or insignificant roles? Obviously not, because our incarnation here grants us an opportunity to perform a role, which helps complete the mosaic of life on this planet

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38. shuttles assuming they were on his side

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39. Even given the wonders of micro-surgery, if it was a couple of weeks before she received proper medical attention then most of her foot would already be dead, assuming she survived that long herself

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40. Assuming we can get there and seal the door before the fuel ignites, we should be quite safe in there

41. That’s assuming he took this crazy trail in the first place

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42. In India, their principal settlements or Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta, which had before been altogether independent of one another, were subjected to a governor-general, assisted by a council of four assessors, parliament assuming to itself the first nomination of this governor and council, who were to reside at Calcutta ; that city having now become, what Madras was before, the most important of the English settlements in India

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43. There had been no further sign of the Elusiver, no word of leaving, assuming it really had visited

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44. lived a life without worry, always assuming

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45. One would be entering speculative territory by assuming that the Bible should be interpreted differently

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46. He picked it up, and while he was close to the door he quietly fitted the door chain into its slot, just in case Ronnie decided to get in, assuming he wasn't

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47. Assuming that these layers would have had inconsistencies and that they were not perfectly smooth and spherical, some parts of the inner and outer rock layers may at some point have come into contact with each other

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48. ' He buckled his belt, assuming a Cowboy drawl

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49. far by assuming the laity is too busy or spiritually

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50. anything else and I’m assuming that other than my

51. Assuming Mom would follow, I rushed over to the cat cages

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52. He imagined how the endgame would be described in his memoirs (assuming he lived long enough): his reluctance to accede to the final act of destruction, the conflict within his own mind

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53. " Assuming the magazine still has a motto, I would wager that the current motto would be along the lines of: „Send me a man who can read

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54. She asked him with a confident, assuming tone, “So, Raven, how does it feel to be in the yard again? It’s been a while

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55. Assuming they had similar armaments, it would only take a matter of seconds to render her unconscious

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56. Assuming it was today’s paper, she had lost four days between the dungeon and the sickness

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57. What was it that I said about once assuming power?

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58. By competence, I‘m assuming that Scientologists are referring to technological competence and not spiritual ―competence‖ inasmuch as no such thing exists

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59. Ideas perfect a thinking individual in a manner that unites the two; that is to say, cause and effect become one, each assuming a ―mutual‖ consciousness of its (own)

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60. Assuming that the only reason - or the main reason why you still communicate with her is because of your children - then you should keep that up front in your mind

61. I believe that you are incorrectly assuming that possessing a soul provides an automatic passport to heaven

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62. Performing ―good‖ deeds for their own sake because it is good to do so does not address the question: by what conventional standards are such acts of goodness, good to begin with; and assuming that they are, whether the ―Will to Goodness‖ is driven by some inherent factor; that is to say, an (essential) moral goodness that resides within the doer of good deeds or conditioned, rather, by rewards and punishment, reciprocity or perhaps, fear, in which case, such acts of ―goodness‖, sullied by questionable (intent), are motivated, in part, by self-serving designs that are not (inherently) good in themselves

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63. A tolerance for increasingly lazy study habits has a way of assuming a life of its own, however

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64. One is denial, wanting to blame most deaths on accidental disease, wanting to blame Natives themselves, assuming this was ordinary warfare, or even justifying conquest and genocide as inevitable, as best for American progress

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65. ―nominal‖ decline in revenue impact, assuming that it does, the French economy? It wouldn‘t take much imagination to predict the

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66. "Do you want me to do it, then?" I asked, assuming he was too upset to do it himself

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67. Assuming you could avoid running afoul of the law, or assuming at least that the fines didn’t cut too deeply into profits; you could do anything

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68. also see the surprised look from Luke and she’s assuming that he also

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69. ” But she’s wrong in assuming that her sticks-to-the-ribs snack had anything to do with it

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70. ‘I will get this’ said Adrian Smith in an assuming manner

71. Now, I’m assuming that you use local equipment too, as

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72. There was no sense assuming that the two guys who took a run at me earlier were the only two players in this game

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73. It does help a great deal when going to war to not have to devote precious time on finding the right chair, serving the proper tea and using the protocol-bound appellations of rank and office all the time,” the General said while easing up on his chair, his body assuming a more relaxed position

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74. “Based upon my minimal knowledge of human physiology, and assuming the water, the most dangerous thing in there, was properly processed, it seems unlikely

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75. I cannot help feeling just a little resentful when people look down their noses at overseas qualifications, assuming that they are all worthless

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76. Whilst there are people coming forward to train for diaconate and readership, there is not enough to go round, assuming a status quo model

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77. Unfortunately we have a habit in the church of assuming that once something is established, it must be continued unchanged for ever

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78. Further, it also takes millions of years to fill a valley system with silt, assuming stable environmental conditions

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79. Lewisohn and told him he wanted to have the following Tuesday off, after sick call was concluded, and assuming that there was no one to transport to Kummersfeld

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80. In possibly only hundreds of years, the life of this valley could have reestablished itself at a somewhat higher level than before, assuming no long-term climatic changes would have occurred as a result of these disturbances

81. Working any of the unskilled jobs, you can pay this off in thirty to thirty five years, assuming you live in the shanty town and eat from the rubbish heap

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82. Agrippa went on, once more assuming the role of the man with all the answers

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83. Assuming that I’m correct in the dating of the story of Abraham to the middle of the seventeenth century, the flood story now appears to be, thanks to Gilgamesh, much older than any beginning “guestimate

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84. ” And this is assuming that the “kingship” period didn’t suffer a lapse in time after such a horrific event

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85. Over a snifter of the French cognac, Colling explained that as soon as the weather cleared, and assuming that the Russians did not discover them by then, that he and Elizabeth would be leaving for Krakow to take the train to Vienna

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86. we worry? Even assuming that no cash flows in, there is always plenty

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87. “Besides, I’m assuming you haven’t had any visions about me today

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88. Assuming that it is, then when two like folks with mild autism get together, there is more of a chance it will pop out in their offspring

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89. Assuming you know little to nothing about locks what would be the best way to unlock the door

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90. Assuming I could even do it, we don’t have time for that

91. assuming – that he’s done his best

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92. Assuming he agrees, can you remove them, as you did for me?” I asked telepathically

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93. This will have to wait,” he said, assuming I didn’t have the clout that Shamansky carried

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94. “But haven't you already spent the last ten years assuming they were dead,” said Itsuki's voice of reason

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95. My hosts were quite pleased with my decision, incorrectly assuming it meant that I trusted them now

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96. I’m assuming the helm at his wishes for the foreseeable future

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97. Assuming it occurs

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98. assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament;

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99. “I see you are having a private conversation in my lecture hall, I’m assuming you know everything I’m talking about,” the professor said

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100. I’m assuming it is the shark’s mate or spouse