Sentence examples for outlandish assumptions from inspiring English sources

Last month, MSG rejected the Yankees' demand to pay $1.3 billion upfront or $2.4 billion over 10 years for the team's TV rights; the network sued again, describing the offer as unfair and based on financially outlandish assumptions.

Underwriting grew sloppy: more cases are coming to light of lenders signing off on outlandish assumptions about rental income, says David Watts of CreditSights.Because banks use mortgage-securities indices as an important input when valuing their holdings, the latest spiral presages further write-downs.

Trump's $11 billion figure comes from an obviously biased study that's based on outlandish assumptions.

To the uninitiated, three per cent growth may not seem like an outlandish assumption.

Sure, the conventional wisdom is all about how the delay means Chris Carpenter can start for the Cardinals in Game 7, writes Ken Rosenthal on Foxsports.com, so that means the Cardinals are the big winners, writes Joe Lemire on SI.com, but that seems to be assuming there will be a Game 7. Granted, that is not an outlandish assumption, considering how crazily up-and-down this series has been.

The airlines followed a policy of total compliance with all hijacker demands, no matter how outlandish; the assumption was that doing so was safer than encouraging crew members to use violence to thwart hijackings, and far cheaper than paying for metal detectors and security personnel on the ground.

Declaring the proposal and the financial assumptions outlandish, MSG filed suit in state court to block it.

But it may be that Labour under Mr Corbyn's unexpected leadership could throw up apparently outlandish ideas that test assumptions about whether policies are thinkable and unthinkable.

I absolutely believe that and I feel emotional about it because it will affect young people," Fairbairn said, claiming the Treasury assumptions were not outlandish.

Those assumptions are simply outlandish.

These assumptions are common, even if outlandish sex-boat plans are not.