American planners assumed that the Iraqi Air Force would fight, but few did, and most of those were shot down.

They said planners had assumed that either chemical or biological weapons would be used against American forces in the field, proving their existence to the world.

Such episodes are commoner than the planners of tall stacks assumed.

But planners assumed that the landfill would be open for another 20 years.

The planners assume that such shock therapy would lead to a sharp fall in production.

Soviet military planners assumed they can win the nuclear war.

Trying to be businesslike, he says that his planners had assumed that we would make for Italy.

Going into the war, many American planners assumed that first we would establish stability in Iraq, then introduce democracy.

Pakistani planners assumed three likely axis of advance from the Indian army:

As a result, urban planners and architects assumed a central role in defining the physical appearance of the new nation.