Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, I, and others have compiled a great deal of evidence challenging this assumption.

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But although there was plenty of circumstantial evidence - and a working assumption that the RUF could not have done what it did without rear bases in Liberia - few people would claim to have irrefutable proof.

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Now match that assumption with the evidence presented on the second day of the trial by the director of the police's Special Branch, who told the court that the police had begun to investigate Mr Anwar's sexual conduct as long ago as 1992.

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The judge rejected defence arguments that Mr Walker Lindh was a loyal American, saying "the evidence before the court belies that assumption".

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It defines "undetermined" as cases where there is insufficient evidence to prove that the person deliberately took their life, but the assumption is that they did.

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The assumption that specific techniques result in client change is not supported by the evidence.

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