Sentence examples for favored theory from inspiring English sources
The favored theory predicted that as a single up or down quark acquired more of the nucleon's total energy, its spin direction would be increasingly likely to match that of the nucleon.
When certain combinations are favored, theory predicts these effects will coevolve, and the concerted coevolution of interacting social phenotypes will lead to the buildup of direct-indirect genetic correlations within populations and distinct coevolved direct-indirect gene combinations in divergent lineages [14] [16], [19], [26].
The favored theory on what the Israelites called manna is the sap of a tamarisk tree.
The favored theory in Tuesday's murder of Eamon Kelly is that it was revenge for the Ryan killing.
The mystery transportation device being developed by the award-winning inventor Dean Kamen -- the subject of continuous fevered speculation since provocative clues and predictions surfaced in media reports last January -- is not hydrogen-powered, a favored theory in Internet discussions.
The constraints may be counterfactual, causal, semantic, or otherwise, depending on one's favored theory of computation.
A champion of the underdog (except in his support of the Yankees), he favored theories and scientists that had been forgotten or whose reputations were in disrepair.
They hired professors, particularly economists, who favored theories that tended to prioritize the interests of shareholders and executives who cater to them.
Occams razor exhorts us to favor theories that explain the most with the least — the single equation that explains both falling apples and falling planets.
This is in line with our hypotheses, as well as with previous research, which has found that meliorists are less likely to favor theories that give any weight to biological factors ("nature" in the nature/nurture dichotomy), instead favoring theories that emphasis early childhood experiences and development ("nurture"; Charlesworth 1992).
In this sense, the principle of simplicity obliges us to favor theories or hypotheses that make the fewest unwarranted, or ad hoc, assumptions about the data from which they are derived.
