11.   Clearly, when it comes to television, the old assumptions no longer apply.

12.   Even the old assumption that no Protestant would ever contemplate closer links with the Irish Republic is under review.

13.   Given what was now known about the dangers for postal workers, perhaps that old assumption was no longer true either.

14.   His sudden vulnerability, Platt says, shattered his old assumption that any difficulties women had in the workplace were of their own making.

15.   In a similar surge of redefinition of old assumptions, France is working on a far-reaching change in traditional law.

16.   In this as in his other proposals, Bush displays a welcome inclination to take a fresh look at costly and dangerous old assumptions.

17.   It can only force us to confront the necessity of adjusting our old assumptions to the new age.

18.   New presidents in both countries are signaling that they are ready to further test old assumptions.

19.   New findings are ruffling the old assumption that people get more conservative as they grow older, Troutwine said.

20.   Now both parties are throwing out old assumptions about the region.