presupposing

• In the course of my travels I am ofttimes asked if I desire my meals sent to my room, presupposing, as would be naturally inferred, the possibility of great awkwardness in my manner of eating; hence I invariably decline this offer of privacy, as there need be nothing in our manner of eating at all outre or disagreeable. —  The World As I Have Found It
• Then in a short time it will be seen that (presupposing, of course, a radically national government) in Germany, as in Ireland, Poland, or France, the Catholic will always be a German. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: General Political Considerations Based on My Vienna Period
• And all at once, something unprecedented, something of which the race had as yet no experience, had come to pass: love, which had nothing in common with sensuality, which was even deliberately hostile to it, love which welled up in one soul and flowed into the other--presupposing personality--love was there! —  The Evolution of Love
• This adoptive Parisian was by nature presupposing, but he was admirably urbane--that was why they let him talk so before the fire; he was the oracle persuasive, the conciliatory voice--and after the death of his wife and of Mme. —  The Reverberator
• No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out Was she beautiful or not beautiful? —  Daniel Deronda

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