"Should speculators go to jail," notes Robert Barbera, chief economist with the Wall Street firm ITG, "or should they get the Congressional Medal of Honor?" In a sense, the question is whether we want to return to an era of plentiful oil and low prices — assuming it is possible — or to accept that political, geological and possibly environmental limitations will force us to diversify.
Mr Cave's chief argument against the desirability of living for ever (even assuming it is possible) is the familiar one of boredom.
In one sense, Francis Gilbert makes a similar mistake to the current education secretary in assuming it is possible to "train" a teacher.
where is an -dimensional zero column vector, and assuming, it is possible to rewrite (1.1), (1.2) as (1.5).
The question is how to achieve this in a fair and effective way, assuming it is possible.
Assuming it was possible to take him alive, I think his victims, the future, and the restoration of the American Way deserved better.
Indeed, assuming it was possible to divert all the patients in all five case types, local agencies might incur savings in the region of £1,300,000 (the difference between a 100%% diversion success rate and a 0%% diversion success rate), whilst even if it only proved possible to divert 50%% of each case type, savings of £680,000 could be attained.
At first, Roach said that though he did not believe Capetillo acted alone, he assumed it was possible for a trainer to load a knuckle pad without his fighter's knowledge.
Schmidt says, "They think about what should be, and they assume it is possible".
For decades, historians of diplomacy and empire have spoken of the "official mind", and have assumed it was possible through diligent work in the Public Record Office to know the "truth" of how policy was made.
