Sentence examples for hypothetical condition from inspiring English sources

We wanted the subjunctive for this hypothetical condition: were, not was.

This is not a contrary-to-fact or hypothetical condition; it's just the past tense of "If someone is interested... .. Make it "was".

For Emily Brewster, one of Stamper's colleagues, a career highlight was discovering a previously unrecorded sense for the indefinite article "a": "used as a function word before a proper noun to distinguish the condition of the referent from a usual, former, or hypothetical condition".

Then an editor, apparently realizing that "was repealed" seemed wrong in this hypothetical condition, tried again for a later version, with this: The average beneficiary in traditional Medicare would pay about $5,000 more through 2022, and heavy users of prescription drugs about $18,000 more over the same period, if the act is repealed, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

It is a hypothetical condition in which we would care for our friends and cooperate with them, but in which self-interest and preference for friends over strangers would make any wider cooperation impossible.

This HPT was evaluated with different rotor tip geometry configurations: without tip clearance (hypothetical condition), with standard tip clearance geometry (flat-tip), with squealer, with winglet and squealer with winglet.

One after another, Rahman stacks up these hypothetical conditions – or should I say part-hypothetical, given that they've already happened, just the other way round.

With climate models, we can play "what-if scenarios" and input either current conditions or hypothetical conditions and watch the Earth's climate evolve within the simulation.

These, and other hypothetical conditions of gravitational collapse, were borne out in later discoveries of pulsars and neutron stars.

It's true that the lawyers always came up with euphemisms for abuse and torture, and that they often said that a given "technique" should only be practiced under a set of implausibly hypothetical conditions, restraints, and conditions.

CDA can occur only under hypothetical conditions where a serious power-to-cooling mismatch is postulated.