A large proportion of important innovations are brought about by people who step outside of conventional categories or traditional assumptions.

This isn't the first time scientists have discovered an artifact that changes our traditional assumptions.

The first tree is based on the traditional assumption that nouns, rather than determiners, are the heads of phrases.

The new initiatives have one thing in common - they abandoned the traditional assumption that if doctors know what works, they will provide it.

However, their willingness to probe, criticize, and reject traditional assumptions distinguish these historians from the other two tendencies.

And in the face of some of their claims traditional assumptions were difficult to uphold.

The local multi-culturalists, and their many allies nationwide, have flipped the traditional assumption that immigrants should adjust to the American condition.

They disturb traditional assumptions about our bodies and our futures: this makes doubt soothing.

Its more common name is the "potato cave", which comes from the traditional assumption that it was once used as a root cellar.

The theory is worked out with a perhaps necessarily cavalier attitude to traditional assumptions, including those relating to the chronology of the plays.