Democracy and a civil society is based on shared assumptions of human experience.

But what is striking about these debates is the shared assumption that the area was a 'good thing' for Britain.

But the racial profiling studies uniformly show that this widely shared assumption is false.

For me, he is one of those rare persons with whom I can speak directly, from the same shared assumptions.

But their very presence highlights a widely shared assumption: two different wars, same lying Government.

This edge comes in part from "a loss of shared assumptions, which is the underside of multiculturalism," he said.

A survey of 108 futurists found the following shared assumptions:

Far from the cities, as nowhere else, the English were united in shared assumptions and self-confidence.

There was no way the western, which had always operated on shared moral assumptions, could survive in its old form.

Suddenly there were serious, competing visions of how to help the poor - and a shared assumption that this was actually a worthwhile thing to do.