6 sentences with 'assumption'

Example sentences and phrases with the word assumption and other words derived from it.

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« The assumption was that Germany would be held back by heavy fortifications and could be repulsed, and the French army simply had no plans, or intentions, to attack Germany in the meantime. »
« Despite genuine changes in gender in the society around him, Freud was still based on the assumption that a male and female physiology dictated separate and unequal destinies for men and women. »
« Serbia's assumption that Austria would not risk war turned out to be completely wrong. The Austrian government demanded that Serbia allow Austrian agents to conduct a full-scale investigation of the assassination; Serbian honour would never permit such a thing. »
« Although women had won the vote after the war (with a few exceptions such as Switzerland) and most of the other legal goals of the first wave of feminism had also been achieved, the post-war social order still operated under the assumption that women should focus on domestic roles. »
« Some progress was made in treating cases of shell shock through the application of the 'talking cure', an early form of therapy related to the practices of the great psychologist Sigmund Freud, but most of the medical community maintained the assumption that trauma was just a sign of weakness. »
« Israel's crushing victory in the 1967 Six Day War proved to American policymakers that it was a power worth cultivating, and in the decades following the government's assumption of power American-Israeli relations were that Israel was the most reliable and powerful partner supporting American interests. Part of that sympathy was also born out of respect for the fact that Israel's government is democratic and has a thriving civil society. »

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