Sentence examples for controversial estimates from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of the 21st century, official (and controversial) estimates suggested that a total of one-fifth of Australia's land area was native forest, nearly a third of which was in private hands.

Because the mass distribution was poorly known, Ciufolini and colleagues had to make a few controversial estimates.

Climate change signal for the period 2021 2040 is not very clear as highly controversial estimates are generated; HA indicates a very significant decrease of precipitation by 166 mm on the median, while RAE also indicates annual precipitation decrement by 52 mm.

Most policy makers will feel more comfortable when making decisions based on single, undisputed numbers with small uncertainty ranges, than on ambiguous or controversial estimates and scenario analyses.

Nevertheless, our results clearly demonstrate (Table 2) that one of the main reasons for the controversial estimates of the diagnostic performance of light-based aids may be the classification method employed for the reference standard.

At the 400,000-year mark, one controversial estimate puts the level at 60 feet higher; Raymo asserts it was more like 18 to 40.

Manned and unmanned space vehicles are now trying to measure the intensity of current solar activity, though it's controversial estimating the level of that activity billions of years ago.

on Thursday demanded that the Obama administration surrender the data and algorithms behind its increasingly controversial estimate that most of the oil spilled in the Gulf no longer presents a risk of harm.

Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass). on Thursday demanded that the Obama administration surrender the data and algorithms behind its increasingly controversial estimate that most of the oil spilled in the Gulf no longer presents a risk of harm.

In fall 2006, a controversial estimate of Iraqi war deaths published in the Lancet [ 1] made world headlines, spurring a renewed round of debate over the ethics and consequences of the US-led Iraq invasion.

Those abatements have been controversial, given estimates that the city and the state lose more than $1 billion in taxes that such prime real estate would generate from a similar office complex built without subsidies.