Sentence examples for hypothetical assumptions from inspiring English sources

In essence, the numbers involve a lot of hypothetical assumptions.

The Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov, today ruled out "even hypothetical assumptions" that Russia and other former Soviet states would lend troops or bases to any NATO military action.

As a result, "studies like this are based on hypothetical assumptions," says Dominic Stoop, director of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at UZ Brussel in Belgium.

For this analysis, the model was expanded with three additional landscape characteristics (slope, aspect and elevation), and three different sets of land use transition rules and transition probabilities were created based on hypothetical assumptions about the possible affect of the six landscape characteristics on land use changes.

In order to observe the overall performance of existing design scheme of the consultant engineers (according to the basic scenario in the selected case studies) from reliability engineering point of view, hypothetical assumptions of the tunnels were exposed to two upper and lower band levels for the case studies.

In order to observe the overall performance of existing design scheme of the consultant engineers (according to the basic scenario in the selected case studies) from reliability engineering point of view, hypothetical assumptions of the tunnels are exposed to some variations.

If we return to the hypothetical assumption that a year with quadriplegia is valued at only half as much as a year without it, then a treatment that extends the lives of people without disabilities will be seen as providing twice the value of one that extends, for a similar period, the lives of quadriplegics.

The presented calculations for the d = 10 nm QDs predict the E g,eff = 0.76 eV effective energy gap, which is in a reasonable agreement with the experiment and, therefore, supports the hypothetical assumption of the low-energy PL peak origin.

If there is even a remote possibility that a player may make a mistake that her 'hand may tremble' then no contradiction is introduced by a player's using a backward induction argument that requires the hypothetical assumption that another player has taken a path that an economically rational player could not choose.

In Section 4.3, we present the results of a counterfactual back-casting exercise, in which one simulates the market development during 2007 2014 under the hypothetical assumption that the strongly CO2-graduated purchase tax and/or the tax exemptions for BEVs had never been introduced.

Allow me to make a hypothetical assumption that to many will border on fantasy.