Sentence examples for based on a hunch from inspiring English sources

We hear of his early years in the Bronx, when he defused reactions to his Jewishness by going along when his name was spelled to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club anthem; of his early years on the force, when he refused to shake down citizens or sleep on the job; of his later career, when he made at least one spectacular arrest based on a hunch.

How many times have you made a decision based on a hunch?

Eric Sofge: The myth of robotic competence is based on a hunch.

Mr. Williams told lawmakers that his suspicion of some of the students was based on a hunch.

"It was back in the day when Google actually gave people jobs based on a hunch," he said, before darting over to the table of Adrian Grenier.

But in 2001, based on a hunch, a team of scientists scaled a foreboding rocky outcrop 23km south-west of the island called Ball's Pyramid, where it was unlikely rats had colonised.

It may be more preferable over methods based on a mere hunch.

Such patients often receive treatment aimed at a tumor's current location, or based on an oncologist's hunch about where the tumor originated.

That examination found that unless new evidence were to surface, the enormous public investment in the case would appear to have yielded nothing more persuasive than a strong hunch, based on a pattern of damning circumstances, that Dr. Ivins was the perpetrator.

"It is not at all clear what separates a reasonable-suspicion-based-on-a-reasonable-suspicion from a simple hunch," it said, calling inclusion on a government watchlist a potentially "life-altering" experience.

The Fourth Amendment, Mr. Belcher said, should keep the police from rounding up large groups of people at gunpoint based merely on a hunch.