This view is predicated on the assumption that profit margins will recover in the medium term.
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The WHO treaty is based on the assumption that the global tobacco economy is not irreplaceable.
Their plans rest on the assumption that many Britons are scared of new technologies, especially the Internet.
Investment decisions were made--particularly in real estate--on the assumption that prices would rise 10% a year forever.
The case for this rests on the assumption that white businessmen will never treat blacks fairly without coercion.
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Labour's marriage of convenience with Likud is predicated on the assumption that those negotiations will not soon resume.
Mr Harwood said he would present a report to the States "on the assumption that there is sufficient information".
It leans much too heavily on the assumption that people want a device specifically to play Android-based games on.
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We add more and more choices on the assumption that each consumer has very specific, unique, tastes and needs.
In fact, previous presidents have mediated on the assumption that any agreed border would roughly follow the pre-1967 one.
Madams can be abusive, shouting at their maids and locking cupboards on the assumption that all servants are thieves.
By midnight on Wednesday, they agreed to preliminary terms, based on the assumption that they'd get funding from three firms.
Many folks argue for the notion of an innovation organizational strategy, on the assumption that organizational changes will drive innovation.
Democracy was designed on the assumption that the voters would be rational, not zombies in a trance over manipulative rhetoric.
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Operators based their franchise bids on the assumption that more passengers and rising revenues would make up for shrinking subsidies.
That prediction was based on the assumption that collapsing vacancies and rising rents would fuel a boom in multi-family housing construction.
The immigration debate is often premised on the assumption that high wages for American workers are a problem to be overcome.
The FTC rules offer some leeway here on the assumption that savvy consumers know a celebrity endorsement when they see one.
Most higher education acts on the assumption that, the more you know, the more powerful you will be in the world.
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The post-war expansion of university science was based on the assumption that to invest in knowledge was to invest in growth.
And much of the attention has focused on video, on the assumption that, surely, that is what people want to share.
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Its members pay paltry sums to keep it pottering along, on the assumption that it would never have to do much.
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These analyses are based on the assumption that the animals collected represent a randomly selected and thus representative sample of the population.
U.S. officials are operating on the assumption that Chavez's forces have someone in custody, a U.S. government source told CNN on Friday.
Mr. GORDON: They're operating on the assumption that it can be done.
In America, moreover, consumers have also been borrowing massively on the assumption that inflation and interest rates will rise only a bit.
Should Clinton put all her marbles there, on the assumption that a Pennsylvania win shows superdelegates that she can win big swing states?
Traditional MBA programs are built on the assumption that any decision with the potential to reduce short-term returns for stockholders is ultimately unethical.
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In the 1960s it poured money into roads, pipelines and universities, on the assumption that it was the state's manifest destiny to grow.
The market seems to operate on the assumption that the time bomb is 7% on sovereign yields, but those yields are just symptoms.
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