Many assumed that the near-miss attempt on Mr Saleh's life would put paid to his ambitions to hang on.
Many assumed that the 0.1% GDP growth figures for the last quarter of 2009, announced in January, would disappoint voters.
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Barring a disastrous revelation or blunder, Mitt Romney will be a more formidable opponent than many assumed during his rightward lurch to secure the Republican nomination.
At the turn of the century many assumed that, because the achieved ERP had been high in the past, it would be so in the future.
Many assumed that this would end up being an E3 battle where Sony and Microsoft debut new consoles within days or even hours of each other.
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As for New York City, a market many assumed would make this first LTE round, CEO John Legere says that's coming soon, mostly likely by early summer.
"This research shows that parents can have more influence on their teenagers' behaviour than perhaps many assumed, " said Claire Turner, Programme Manager for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
As Eni never looked like making the big league, many assumed it would be bought by Total, a big French oil firm, or one of the American oil giants.
And even though the markets have priced in three rate hikes from the Fed beginning in the fall, the dollar has not strengthened as so many assumed it would.
And Nigerians are eager to spend: fixed-line services are awful to non-existant, just as they are in most of Africa, and there are more customers with money than many assumed.
He was undrafted, has been released by two other teams, is rail skinny and before this week, he'd been considered a novelty who many assumed survived with only a Harvard-educated basketball I.
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So far others haven't been able to obtain the necessary keys to decrypt high definition content, and now Cyberlink, makers of the PowerDVD software many assumed was exploited for the attack, is denying vulnerability.
When the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced in June that this year there would be ten Best Picture nominees instead of five, many assumed it was a ploy to gain more viewers for the ailing telecast in March.
Many had assumed that he would cave in at some stage during the long Hillsborough nights.
Foot for the first time, many people assumed he had been in the secret service.
Many Tunisians assumed the culprits to be members of shadowy, rearguard units loyal to the ousted president.
One, who gave his name as Ali, said many initially assumed the bomb was the work of al-Qaeda.
Twitter latched on to the name and many users assumed it was true even though it hadn't been confirmed by authorities.
Many had assumed the meatballs were from Europe, China Daily reports.
Many had assumed the market was stitched up by Google and Yahoo!
Selecting a low-viz design made sense, because many people assumed the paper-pushers housed in the Pentagon would largely disappear once the war was over.
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When the American recession started last year, many people assumed the dollar would weaken in consequence, and that the euro in particular would rise.
Some shots in that programme, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, were filmed in a Dutch zoo, but many viewers assumed footage came from the Arctic.
Many mistakenly assumed it could be activated with their camera.
Earlier this month, when Lewinsky dumped the loquacious California medical-malpractice lawyer William Ginsburg and hired a pair of Washington sharpies, Plato Cacheris and Jake Stein, many observers assumed it meant she was getting ready to cooperate.
Certainly, though, he often travelled free of the press pack, partly because his expense account was much smaller than his colleagues', partly (as he must have noticed, but does not here remark) because other journalists and presumably many officials assumed, perhaps wrongly, that he was a spy.
One reason for the political fury is that many outsiders had assumed that Europe's car industry was recovering nicely.
As well, holders of the banks' senior bonds, which many investors have assumed would be safe from losses, may also lose money.
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Historically American women have assumed many different roles during times of war.
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