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.
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.
To help, the military invited the press to amphibious exercises, gave it a code name, "Imminent Thunder," and always mentioned the possibility of the amphibious landing when discussing the battle plan in hypothetical terms.
For now, though, we're still talking in very hypothetical terms about Democrats taking over the House and down-ballot Republicans paying a price for Trump's blunders.
"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.
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.
In the simplest (and purely hypothetical) terms, to lose that much since January, Semgroup would need to have shorted 50 million barrels of crude oil at $100, then lost roughly $50 on each barrel.
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).
Still, over dinner at the Duplex Diner, a Washington restaurant and bar popular with politically connected gay men, Mr. Armstrong strained to speak to a reporter in hypothetical and general terms about the debate.
a The terms in parenthesis are Pfam domains found in hypothetical proteins or metals predicted to bind the proteins.
