"They're presenting a case based on speculation," Gupta's lead attorney, Gary Naftalis, told jurors during his opening remarks.
BHP Billiton appears to be biding its time before presenting a revised bid, following intense speculation about the possibilities for one.
Common sense is usually but not invariably right, he contends, and hence reason's task is to present a defense of speculation when it departs from common sense.
The screenplay is by Andrew Niccol, whose directorial debut, Gattaca, presented a thoughtful and elegant speculation on a future determined by genetic engineering earlier this year.
Whether the favorable risk-to-benefit ratio of vildagliptin in this selected vulnerable population may also provide cardiovascular protection remains, at the present time, a speculation.
Reviewer 3 Emanuel Tannenboum, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel The paper presents a number of interesting speculations regarding the purpose of sex and the role of speciation in biology.
In his characteristically anecdotal yet authoritative style, he presents a history of the inaccurate speculation, failed theories and unlucky space probes that have tried to fathom Mars over the years.All of which serves, of course, to heighten the enigma of our closest planetary neighbour.
Much of waht is presented here is a speculation about the nature of a pradigm yet to be developed.
Prior to Queen Elizabeth II's re-dedication of the Vimy Memorial on 7 April 2007, there was speculation she would present a Canadian Victoria Cross to her Canadian prime minister (then Stephen Harper), offering it in recognition of the gallantry of the Unknown Soldier, as representative of all Canadian forces casualties of combat.
Cut to a room full of law enforcement officers taking copious notes as the profilers take turns presenting every speculation they've gained from investigating the behaviors of the "unsub".
Those who can't or won't are charlatans, falsely presenting speculation, wishful thinking, or baseless assertions as alternative facts.
