In a dissenting opinion, Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the Court should have adhered to the basic presumption that a warrant was required.

There is none of the basic starting presumption of two adults who want to start a family, raise children together, love them, nourish them and lead them to full independence.

We have entered a brave new world in which some of the basic presumptions about doing business are being challenged.

Three psychologists from the Universities of Liverpool and Hull are questioning the basic presumption that you can draw conclusions about a person from a single instance of behaviour under such special circumstances.

To state that would annihilate the most basic presumption of all science!

"The basic presumption is to check any distribution of anything worth arguing about against census figures and to see any deviation from proportionality as suspect."

Krafft-Ebing's basic presumption was that recreational sexual intercourse was a perversion.

And now there is a change in the basic presumption that students with special needs should be in special classes.

This will not lead to peace, Mr President-in-Office, so the basic presumptions underlying this debate are utterly false.

Their basic presumption is that it's women's bodies that are dirty.