Often there is a quick test of wills, then an immediate assumption of one role or the other depending on how the tourist responds.

There is an immediate assumption that we should function as a group - eating, drinking, sleeping, sunbathing and exploring the island together.

"You make immediate assumptions even though they may be wrong."

It was amazing how both of them had made that immediate assumption of the poor little mite's gender.

Their immediate assumption was that these were men from Heintzelman's corps, but they soon realized their mistake.

The immediate assumption is that Ignacio committed suicide.

The responses here are curious; why is there an immediate assumption that this movement reflects the 'far left'?

She needed a moment to absorb Megan's immediate assumption that Roger had done something.

News spread quickly that it was an explosion, she said, and terrorism "was the immediate assumption."

But the immediate assumption in Belgrade is that the Milosevic government had ordered and carried out the killing.