Sentence examples for hypothetical over from inspiring English sources

We tend not to entertain the hypothetical over the real".

Fears that the economy would suffer a "jobless recovery" similar to that of the first Bush administration are no longer hypothetical: over the past year G.D.P. has grown, but employment has continued to shrink, and the risk that the U.S. will slide into a Japanese-style pattern of slow growth and deflation no longer seems remote.

This paper investigates the effect of concrete degradation due to alkali-silica reactivity (ASR) and its effect on the performance of vertical concrete casks in the case of a hypothetical tip-over event.

In this paper, the behavior of a dry cask structure damaged due to ASR was investigated in the form of damage, failure modes, stresses, and accelerations under a hypothetical tip-over event.

And in the hypothetical debate over which team is the best ever, could the Islanders be considered the answer?

This is not some mere hypothetical risk – over 90% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV, a cancer which claimed the lives of 270,000 women in 2012 alone.

Bjorn Lomborg, excoriated by some and lionized by others for being a best-selling promoter of free-market problem-solving, has teamed with eight leading economists and other experts in Copenhagen to produce a "Copenhagen Consensus" — a menu for getting the most advancement of the human condition out of an extra (hypothetical) $75 billion over four years.

Morningstar, the fund rating company, tracked three hypothetical portfolios over one-year, five-year and ten-year periods through 1998.

To be sure, you will be collecting a yield for the remaining 55.5% on a hypothetical portfolio over the ten years, but that would scarcely make you whole.

In a typical declaration of the principle, a Wall Street Journal column ten years ago explained that you could increase your expected return half a percentage point by going from 50% stocks (hypothetical return over long periods: 11% a year) and 50% bonds (6% return) to a 60-40 mix.

This isn't a hypothetical problem: over the past century, during which rates of heart disease and strokes have dropped, Alzheimer's has become more and more commonplace.