Polyakov only used hypotheticals, hoping to maintain a delicate balance and avoid a superpower standoff, Dillon explains.
The "All About Women" feature is a quiz that puts men in hypothetical situations, hoping to guide them to the right way to impress their date.
Officials in Congress and at the White House emphasized that the backup plan was hypothetical, and that they hoped it would never be needed.
Kirkwood is well aware of this sentiment, and while he hopes a hypothetical relocated team or expansion team truly becomes a second favorite for diehard fans of another team, he's banking on a new crop of fans with more of a blank easel when it comes to team loyalty.
In other words, the hawks are left putting their hope in a hypothetical Romney administration, while the anti-tax lobby gets to count this deal as a flat-out win.
For our efforts to do good for real people in the real world, they have to be based on the actual evidence of what our actions do to and for actual people in the real world -- not hypothetical abstractions born of hazy hope or morbid fantasy.
We are fully aware that this is a rather hypothetical scenario and we sincerely hope that the future will prove it wrong.
In addition, we present data from surveying biomedical researchers and technicians regarding which hypothetical features and functionalities they hope to see implemented in an eLN, and which ones they regard as less important.
We must maintain European-American solidarity at the end of the day -- and there is no 'German way.' " But his own candidate for chancellor, Edmund Stoiber, has been extremely cautious on the issue, calling a war against Iraq "a hypothetical question" and saying he hopes it can be avoided.
One reason these theorists may have had for transitioning from actual to hypothetical consent is that they hoped to identify a rational justification of a political order that was not based on a sectarian theology or ideology which might happen to enjoy widespread, but probably not universal support within the relevant community.
