Sentence examples for hypothetical discussions from inspiring English sources

The author of one series of seemingly fretful e-mails, Robert Daugherty, has since said that the tone of the messages has been misinterpreted, and that they simply reflect hypothetical discussions in the colorful language typical of engineering culture.

Mr Straw said he observed all rules and the hypothetical discussions only related to employment after the general election when he had already planned to stand down, and not while he was still the MP for Blackburn.

Although policy-makers were willing to engage in hypothetical discussions about the methodology, difficulties in identifying potential pilots suggest a wider problem in encouraging take up without legislative imperatives.

This is not a hypothetical discussion.

Asked about Mr. Koppell's plans, Ms. Quinn said, "You are all engaged in a hypothetical discussion".

Does that mean it would be good to withdraw from an unreformed EU? Osborne says he does not want to get into a hypothetical discussion.

The decision not to have Mr. Blagojevich testify "was wise but it's left all of us feeling cheated," said Paul Meincke of WLS-TV, Channel 7. Still, we can dream about how a hypothetical discussion on the Senate vacancy might have sounded on tape, with requisite editing and euphemisms: Rahm: Hey, buddy, what's up?

He told Yahoo: "People have the hypothetical discussion about how journalists have access to the world's most dangerous people, and they hypothetically would be in a good situation to assassinate them".

Palin says the idea is "Don't assume you can engage in a hypothetical discussion," without people, you know, extracting your weird ideas and saying they are weird.

Every imaginable method was apparently tried out: mediation, secret negotiations, back channels, two-track discussions, hypothetical answers to hypothetical questions, Clintonian schmoozing.

Finally, it is important to differentiate the discontinuation of a constitutive treatment in the hypothetical scenarios under discussion from that in the situation where either Adam or David would be imminently dying from a lethal pathophysiological condition independent of vital body functions (ie, ventilatory and cardiac functions) supported by respective medical devices.