Sentence examples for might speculate about from inspiring English sources

Philosophers might speculate about why we have the duties that we do, but prejudice makes us act, without having to calculate all the consequences or indeed to reason about ends.

But since her husband is the party's nominee for president, one might speculate about the messages the Republicans could find in this literary work.

'It makes me sad because I've never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.' " A reader might speculate about other causes of her weeping, but there is no reason not to take Daisy at her word.

Depending on the anxieties and preoccupations of its time, a dystopian Y.A. novel might speculate about the aftermath of nuclear war (Robert C. O'Brien's "Z for Zachariah") or the drawbacks of engineering a too harmonious social order (Lois Lowry's "The Giver") or the consequences of resource exhaustion (Saci Lloyd's "The Carbon Diaries 2015").

In these children, one might speculate about possible infection with 'typical' bacteria such as Streptococcus and Haemophilus, although it is equally possible that viruses as yet unknown could have caused their symptoms.

One might speculate about a function of Elongator in translational control, primarily required for the transmission of auxin signals.

We might speculate that new norms about cancer as a chronic non-fatal illness are disseminated along informal communication networks, and reinforced by group norms.

One might speculate for ever about the feelings of a man born in 1874 about production design on a film featuring robots disguised as trucks.

The by-product papers were separate studies, usually conducted later, that explored the impact on healthcare that had arisen as 'by-products' of the research engagement in the original study and sometimes analysed, or speculated about, what might have caused this impact.

It seems amazing that a party struggling into double digits in the polls might even speculate about its future like this.

"One might as well speculate about the origin of matter," he quipped.