Its experience shows that white men benefit from affirmative action when it helps them rethink conventional assumptions about fairness and function.

She reversed the conventional assumptions, and broke down each to its component parts.

Moreover, the findings challenge conventional assumptions about the amounts of time the different subjects should be allocated.

It's time to get beyond the conventional assumption that we can fix nature with manufactured surfaces.

The conventional assumption about South Africa is that apartheid made politics a white sport.

Yet it never challenges the audience's conventional assumptions about television.

The more benign view of the deficit starts with questioning the conventional assumptions about its size.

In a scientific paper published in 2008, James states that conventional assumptions have been:

This is the conventional assumption: that the choice facing us used to be between the free market and all-controlling regimes.

Reed rejects the conventional assumption that poor black people are to blame for all their own problems.