Sentence examples for it postulated from inspiring English sources

It postulated the existence of three types of quarks, distinguished by unique "flavours".

B3 was also an important educational tool because it postulated a very high supply of oil as a way to avoid major change.

It postulated that a troop increase — and a strategy that put a premium on protecting civilians — would win over hesitant Iraqis, generate intelligence about the insurgents and give Iraqi leaders the confidence to turn away from their militias and private armies and work together.

There were great difficulties with this theory: it made the totem a sacrificial victim rather than a supernatural ally; it postulated the universality of totemism; and, further, it did not adequately account for holocaust sacrifices in which the offering is consumed by fire and there is no communal eating.

To a number of practicing historians, for instance, the account offered appeared implausible inasmuch as it overlooked the "irreducible particularity" of historical occurrences and because it postulated an unjustifiably high degree of reliance upon the presence of discernible uniformities in the sphere of human affairs.

The last worry for the constitution view was that it postulated an unexplained correspondence between the sortal terms in our language and the kinds of objects in the world.

At its core, it postulates a new institutional foundation for the development of innovations.

One of the book's cartoons is typical: it postulates the existence of a seasonal disorder known as Spring Guilt.

It postulates that a tiny fraction of a second after the big bang, the universe underwent a sudden catastrophic expansion.

It postulates that laws of physics are invariant under rotation and remain the same in a moving reference frame.

It postulates that new architecture can be made as a continuation and extension of normative urban structure and building typologies.