Sentence examples for hypothetical exercise from inspiring English sources

This is not just a hypothetical exercise.

There are two caveats that can be applied to this hypothetical exercise.

It was largely a hypothetical exercise until 2001, when the United States began Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

This hypothetical exercise, it should be noted, does not expose the legislators who now oppose reform as evil or corrupt -- but only as human.

While the presidential candidates are out in Iowa passionately debating precisely which parts of the Bush tax cuts they will repeal, back in Washington some observers consider it an oddly hypothetical exercise.

It was a hypothetical exercise, since I am lucky enough to have a job, but also not, since the newspaper industry is shrinking faster than the polar ice caps.

Such hypothetical exercises are – to put it mildly – vulnerable to the suggestion that respondents might exaggerate what they'd pay for services that are clearly a good thing and currently free.

A limitation of the study is that it is a hypothetical exercise-the choices made in the CHAT exercise did not influence actual Medicare benefits, but the aim of the CHAT exercise was to impose a resource constraint that does not currently exist.

While reviews of the priority-setting literature have been conducted [ 2, 14], these studies have focused on hypothetical exercises and stated preferences rather than cases where decision-making bodies have had to make decisions under the actual constraints of budgetary and political realities.

Secondly, by focusing on health care resource allocation decisions that have been made, as opposed to hypothetical exercises, our review reflects a set of decision-making criteria that is more 'pragmatic' than the more 'aspirational' criteria that may be generated in the abstract.

Respondents were initially taken through a hypothetical TTO exercise to help them understand the task.