Sentence examples for driven by assumptions from inspiring English sources

Our existing models for predicting the impact of biofuels are inexact and often driven by assumptions.

The narration is driven by assumptions about natural selection and what separates humans from animals.

Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC, points out that "the basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence".

But the actual use of drugs is often driven by assumptions about drug safety and effectiveness put forth by articles in peer-reviewed journals (sometimes written by doctors affiliated with the drug manufacturers) and clinical practice guidelines that can be entirely inconsistent with the F.D.A.'s assessments.

Across the board, criminal justice professionals are driven by assumptions about minorities and the poor and the treatment they deserve that foster a culture of indifference toward these communities.

The field is relative new, especially when compared to the vast knowledge base present in fossil fuel production, and the limited analyses are driven by assumptions that sometimes lack robust empirical validation".

The differences among the GE models are likely to be driven by model assumptions on agricultural land supply, the inclusion of the byproducts, and assumptions on crude oil prices and the elasticity of substitution between petroleum and biofuels.

The assumption was made to ensure that results were not driven by unrealistic assumptions about treatment duration (some share of patients will in practice discontinue treatment).

All of these divergent predictions are driven by similar assumptions – the knowledge that the world's population is growing and becoming increasingly urbanised.

The Obama administration will argue on Wednesday for a middle ground that is driven by economic assumptions as well as legal analysis.

And Greider's theorizing is all the more speculative and simplistic because he is an accidental theorist, a theorist despite himself--because he and his unwary readers imagine that his conclusions simply emerge from the facts, unaware that they are driven by implicit assumptions that could not survive the light of day.