Sentence examples for hypothetical in from inspiring English sources

Political imperatives were not hypothetical in Nigeria, which, having achieved independence in 1960, entered a prolonged period of upheaval.

"Anything at this point vis-à-vis Syria would be hypothetical in the extreme," General Dempsey told reporters this month.

A piece in Slate, responding to my article, wondered whether this might be an instance of that elusive hypothetical in the torture debate — a "ticking-bomb interrogation".

But it was apparently hypothetical in the extreme, because at the first debate, talking about such a cap, he said, "Make up a number".

Consider this hypothetical: In a city police department, all members are given total protection using special bulletproof vests, yet each year several police officers die of bullet wounds anyway.

Verified transport routes are illustrated in dark grey, hypothetical in light grey.

The contract nowadays is always hypothetical in at least this first sense.

The former is purely mythical or hypothetical in that no humans can exist without their fellows.

Section 4 considers views of ability that are not hypothetical in this way.

There are some applications, although still hypothetical, in the fractional quantum Hall effect, the nonstandard statistics, supersymmetric theory, and Yang-Baxter equation (cf. [16 18]).

The methodology used to provide an ex-ante evaluation of the hypothetical in-work benefit reforms consists of combining a national tax-benefit calculator with a behavioral model of labor supply using data from the Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW).