certain assumption

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They might, in addition, make certain assumptions about my social background, my religion, perhaps even my educational background and my age.
They maintained certain assumptions that sustained the narrative of difference and that legitimised their (continued) involvement.
Existing approaches range from theorem-proving methods to voting and bidding mechanisms each being applicable under certain assumptions.
But the restriction may also reflect certain assumptions which, although they may be mistaken, do not seem arbitrary.
With certain assumptions, these macroscopic variables may be calculated from microscopic variables; however, such calculations require verification with macroscopic experiments.
The sampling of older people from minority ethnic backgrounds is often underlain by certain assumptions that need to be made explicit.
For them, the optimality of behavior is only a theorem that may be demonstrated under certain assumptions.
But they examine the implications of certain assumptions that can then be used to understand natural systems.
In making such interpretations, however, archaeologists make certain assumptions, often unverifiable, about the nature and significance of their data.
In order to examine this possibility we need to spell out certain assumptions.
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