The key point here that it is wrong to assume that by making employees happy, organizations can improve their performance.
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It has done this for Sudan, where it previously made resource investments, and it is reasonable to assume that it might do so for a similarly troubled regime in the future.
Whitehall officials have been told to accelerate their work on what's called the re-balancing of Britain's relationship with the EU but Mr Cameron insists that it is wrong to assume that there will be an early opportunity for significant treaty change.
Then as now, it is naive to assume that Chinese consumers will buy what you make just because it is cheap, and foolish to treat the vast country with its differences in income, climate and tastes as a single, giant market.
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First, it is incorrect to assume that the volume of work is evenly distributed over the five years of the contract.
However, I find it fascinating not quite for the reason Professor Krugman might be pointing at it: that I assume is that we should be outraged at the way in which some very wealthy people pay not very large percentages of their income in taxes.
Though the total amount of gas hydrates possibly recoverable is not yet known, it seems safe to assume it is sufficiently large that exploiting it in its entirety would throw the climate deeply out of the safe zone, even if no other fossil fuels are burnt.
No doubt, Cambara cannot expect her mother to recall her nephew's malodorous breath, nor is it fair to assume that this is reason enough to warrant her daughter's not wanting to share the same space.
With this emphasis, it is reasonable to assume that their position on the top of the reputation list is not just a coincidence.
In a society that teaches us to associate morality with religion, it is easy to assume that a strong relationship exists between piety and pity, between god and good.
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There is no doubt that HP is getting a large patent portfolio, a strong team of engineers, and a proprietary operating system in Palm webOS, and it is reasonable to assume that HP did not have other ways to acquire such assets for less than the price it is paying for Palm.
"It is perfectly reasonable to assume that this problem is going to get worse, not better, " he said.
It is completely unrealistic to assume that unlawful discrimination is the sole cause of people failing to gravitate to jobs and employers in accord with the laws of chance.
It is a most intense world indeed that a hard drinker builds around himself, and it is difficult for him not to assume that everyone else in the place is involved with it.
It is fair to assume that Mr Hussein's regime knew about Mr al-Zarqawi's presence in Iraq.
Nevertheless, it is fair to assume that more effective policing may help to reduce crime.
How realistic is it to assume that your SAC will drop as you 4X your spend?
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Perhaps it is conspiratorial to assume that America's tardy reaction to Srebrenica reflected calculation rather than negligence.
So it is fair to assume that the March 2009 low was the end of a bear cycle.
It is incorrect to assume that these recent increases in food and energy prices must translate into entrenched long-term inflation.
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It is fair to assume that Chinese leaders are sincere when they say they do not want a nuclear-armed Iran.
It is reasonable to assume that these hedge funds are sufficiently active traders that they are in a trade or business.
"It is reasonable to assume that there will be some significant disruption to European air traffic tomorrow, " Deputy Head Brian Flynn told reporters.
In his case it is probably reasonable to assume that his basis in the stock is negligible so that all his proceeds are gain.
It is reasonable to assume that patients will be prescribed these inexpensive versions of drugs rather than Enbrel, thereby delivering savings to health care plans.
So it is reasonable to assume that RBS has reinforced its foundations and structure to cope with all but the most acute and extreme of financial shocks.
Accordingly, it is reasonable to assume that spending would have eased downward from the FY2007 level of 19.6% of GDP to 18.5% of GDP, the level of 1999.
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But look, it is safe to assume that this country has for the past several decades had a very important relationship with the government and the people of Egypt.
"These league tables are designed to enable education systems to be compared, and it is easy to assume that any differences in pupil performance are due to the education system, " he said.
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