The reason this isn't a terrible assumption is you could think that getting a higher share of the vote gives you a mandate.

这么假设没什么不妥,因为你可以认为获得更多的票数,意味着你会获得委任机会

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And, of course, the assumption about this not being a profitable idea could be wrong.

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At the time, the Blair government did little to discourage the widespread assumption that this meant long-range weapons could reach British targets, such as the military base on Cyprus.

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The first is this assumption by a newspaper company that the only way certain information could have been revealed is by computer hacking.

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