This argument rests on a false assumption, that the Middle East was stable to begin with.

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The game itself turned on a false assumption, suggesting a deeper fault in the system.

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Past efforts to cut hospital queues have been based on the false assumption that they are a simple backlog, and that increasing the rate of treatments will eventually clear the backlog.

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But let me just answer and say that, at least when I was a reporter, usually the standard for British tabloid reporting was the assumption that it was false.

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