Sentence examples for speculative estimates from inspiring English sources

By some, admittedly speculative, estimates, they could receive more money from such a scheme than they now do from aid programmes.An emissions-trading scheme would have other benefits.

But the best, though highly speculative, estimates are that the lower revenues from three years of Bush tax cuts in the following 10 fiscal years, 2014 through 2023, could total $3 trillion and that the prescription drug benefit under Medicare could cost the government as much as $1.5 trillion in those years.

Some (admittedly speculative) estimates say that NASA could cut its costs by a factor of 25 or 50 by going with the Falcon XX rocket instead of the (non-reusable) SLS.But this is not just an argument about money and jobs.

But the spill has been unfolding for more than two weeks at an estimated rate of 210,000 gallons a day; a highly speculative estimate would be 3.3 million gallons so far.

In a separate paper summarizing the prevalence and cost data for headache in Europe [30] a more speculative estimate for the cost of headache, rather than migraine alone, was derived by using the results of the Danish [31] and British [32] population-based studies which demonstrated that around 1,100 1,300 days per 1,000 workers were missed due to headache each year.

A very speculative estimate, based on our results, would rely on our observation that among all veterans in our sample who carried "at risk" BChE genotypes and also used PB during the war, 80% became GWI cases, constituting 9% of all cases in our study.

Conventional methods of risk assessment typically employed to evaluate the impact of hazardous waste incinerators on public health must rely on somewhat speculative emissions estimates or on complicated and expensive sampling and analytical methods.

"While the results are even more speculative than estimates of the direct effects [such as storms and increased drought], they do point to... a plausible argument that these indirect effects may rival the direct effects in scale of public health concern".

Admittedly speculative, this estimate is the best we can do with limited access to real pricing.

The secrecy that envelops Al Qaeda's leadership structure makes such estimates speculative, other analysts noted.

Entering the pressroom, I encountered chaos; fingers hammered away at keyboards, while information, speculative scenarios and estimates were screamed down mobile phones.