Sentence examples for hypothetical terms from inspiring English sources

The hearing was complex and often couched in hypothetical terms.

Officials at Bloomberg L.P. said top executives had only discussed a possible deal for The Financial Times in hypothetical terms, awaiting a decision from Mr. Bloomberg, who controls 90 percent of the company's shares.

"If anything were to be envisaged over Syria, even in purely hypothetical terms, it would also rely heavily on U.S. capabilities," said one senior European diplomat who reviewed the 37-page NATO report, which was completed in late February.

It should be clear that the future – a fundamental but virtual phenomenon of time, the thing we can just speak about in hypothetical terms because it simply has no factuality [6, 7, 8, 9] – cannot be known.

Sustainability: Given the deficient monitoring system, the diverse range of projects, and the length of the period under study, this evaluation is no exception to the general rule that the sustainability criterion is analysed in somewhat hypothetical terms.

First, the hypothetical term "area-level stress" is regarded as a reflection of social and environmental conditions.

Reaction contains a new hypothetical term,, in a modified form: (16) Initially, the variable and whenever, where parameter is inferred from experimental data (Supplementary Data, section 7.1).

However, although "phenacetin nephropathy" – thought to develop only after decades of chronic phenacetin overuse – could not be expected to disappear soon, nephrologists suspected that non-phenacetin analgesic combinations, especially those containing paracetamol and aspirin (plus caffeine) might cause ESRD as well and introduced the hypothetical term "analgesic nephropathy".

Do not actually dive into the dumpster; it is a hypothetical term.

To sixteen chapters on the logic of categoricals, hypotheticals, terms and relations are added, almost as an afterthought, one on modal logic and one on the axiomatic method.

Inferring hypothetical GO terms from synthetic data illustrates advantages we may expect from probabilistic GO term inference over counts-based GO term enrichment methods.