Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Search Results For `Presumption`

You can always add more terms to your search to narrow down your results.

Quotes Which Include `Presumption`

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
Tags: You Think I Think
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
DMX
Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
Vincent Bugliosi
Tags: Only Seem Common
The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
James L. Buckley
Tags: Because Own Made
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
Trey Gowdy
Tags: Nature Legal You
The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.
Bee Wilson
Tags: Time Food Your
Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.
Rebecca Traister
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John Muir
Tags: God Men Way
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
Noam Chomsky
Tags: Good History You
Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.
Scott Brown