Definition of Assuming

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Definition of Assuming
	Assuming of Assume Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous. Related Definitions: Assume, Much, Of, One, Presumptuous, Pretentious, Self, Taking, Upon

Assuming Quotations

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
Dennis Miller

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
Howard Gardner

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.
John Mayer

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Loren Eiseley

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.
Martin Kippenberger

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
Piers Anthony

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
Benjamin Tucker

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Gerrit Smith

Assuming Translations

assuming in French is assumant
assuming in German is annehmend
assuming in Swedish is antagande

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