Sentence examples for hypothetical alternative from inspiring English sources

In ideal economic models, consumers weigh every purchase against a hypothetical alternative for that money — the opportunity cost.

It is, potentially, flexible, allowing any existing environmental condition to be encapsulated, and contrasted with any hypothetical alternative condition.

Next, a set of five hypothetical alternative routes ((A_{1}, A_{2}, ldots, A_{5})) is considered between a source and destination.

The choice model incorporates a number of possible changes to actual tourism features (which are also the subject of public debate), including them in hypothetical alternative "holiday packages".

The question might be asked: "What would you be willing to pay to maintain the sand-dune stabilising functions of this forest?" The hypothetical alternative to maintaining the supporting services is whatever would be provided by the landscape without the forest.

Sometimes, I wonder whether my hypothetical, alternative self lives somewhere in a parallel universe.

And some of Clinton's friends think that that is exactly what he would have done if the abstract merits of the hypothetical alternatives had been the only factor he needed to consider.

The results of this analysis constitute the baseline, which we will compare to the other hypothetical alternatives.

Conventional discrete choice (DC) models analyse situations in which respondents are asked to choose one alternative from a set of mutually exclusive hypothetical alternatives [17,50].

The weights and marginal value functions for 19 objectives were later simultaneously inferred with linear programming from pairwise comparisons of hypothetical alternatives.

These are presumptions and hypothetical alternatives that aren't very likely to be true with the caveat that this is a headline published by the same magazine that labeled the lipstick colors worn by all black women "R.I.P" and all of the ones on mostly white women "Hello Gorgeous".