Sentence examples for fanciful assumptions from inspiring English sources

In his first budget, Obama had prided himself on "honest budgeting," declining to employ the fanciful assumptions that the previous Administration had used to hide the costs of government.

Essentially, the foundation is assuming no one is able to restructure how they get paid to skirt the tax laws, which seems like a fanciful assumption.

As The Economist recently wrote, airport construction in Japan has been stimulated in part by "fanciful traffic assumptions" dreamt up by civil servants seeking cushy retirement sinecures.

Japan has a staggering 97 airports, some planned on the basis of fanciful traffic assumptions made by bureaucrats who wanted a retirement sinecure.

Following Adams's lead, a researcher has taken the entire universe as a computer--a fanciful, but fascinating assumption--and calculated just how much number crunching it may have done since the big bang.

Economists — at least, ones who aren't on the White House payroll — generally find that assumption rather fanciful.

On the naturalistic side, fanciful cosmological models of higher and lower powers and empirically false assumptions about the distribution of rationality and competence have served to rationalize oppression, maintaining the position of the parasitic classes of society aristocrats, landowners, and priests and not only allowing but also encouraging persecutory impulses.

His pal, the rapper Jay-Z, has a tiny share of the Nets, and there has been fanciful thinking that James could someday move on to Brooklyn with the Nets, based on the assumption that the Nets will actually put shovels in the ground and be open for business by then.

Again, fanciful.

Sound fanciful?

Fanciful ideas?