One longstanding but often unspoken assumption, many of these reporters acknowledged, is that any woman working in the sports industry must be a glorified groupie looking to date an athlete.

In addition, the notion that Stinger missiles from Afghanistan might have made their way into the United States was a longstanding assumption within law enforcement circles.

Underlying the examination is a longstanding assumption that teachers are not responsible professionals.

Learn about the iZone, a group of schools that challenge longstanding assumptions in K-12 education.

Samples of the virus have been stored in Atlanta and in Siberia, with a longstanding assumption that they would eventually be destroyed.

Earlier versions were highly fragile and conflicted badly with many longstanding assumptions that application developers had made about how to handle audio on the Linux platform.

Shuger's previous book confronted the longstanding assumption that the English church had been fully complicit with the repressive hegemonic powers of government in this period.

HIP, based in New York, intends to dispel longstanding assumptions about the pressure wounds to ankles and feet that are among the most debilitating symptoms of diabetes.

Now, however, that longstanding assumption has been certified in a prestigious medical journal and the continued use of the drug has become the sport's hottest issue.

When the music industry's charts switched from surveys to actual sales data in 1991, they shook up longstanding assumptions (country and rap were more popular than realized, for example).