Sentence examples for speculative field from inspiring English sources

Into this speculative field have come a growing number of companies that have built businesses just by helping owners resell the names they no longer want or need.

Now she presses "rewind" and I can pretend to be the man I was before I abandoned solid industry in favour of the speculative field of letters, stopped paying into a pension plan and hoped everything would turn out for the best.

Taking his father's business methods to giddy extremes, Duveen invaded the lush but treacherously speculative field of Old Masters, then dominated by Agnew's, in London, and by Knoedler & Company, in New York — firms he routinely outsmarted for the rest of his life.

Besides big auto and oil companies, a few dozen smaller outfits and one fuel-cell-focused venture capital firm are trying to make their mark in this speculative field.

"That's a very speculative field to go into, so, I don't venture into hypotheticals," he said.

Even if one believes the need for California to devote $3 billion to a narrow, extremely speculative field of science, the Trounson case and other CIRM administrative missteps have made clear that Proposition 71 created the wrong framework to manage a complex research effort.

According to a study by Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef, much of the increase in financial activity has taken place in the more speculative fields, at the expense of traditional finance.

Daley saw it as a bracing corrective to a frenzied and speculative culture in his field.

Thus his latest contribution to the burgeoning field of speculative popular psychology appeared in the form of a book and newspaper column, and was presented yesterday at the Hay Festival, who managed to find some space for him in between sessions on metaplasticity in the hippocampus and the increasingly frantic attempts of Nick Ross to become relevant.

The field remained speculative rather than descriptive, though, until the achievements of the Alexandrian medical school and its foremost figure, the Greek Herophilus (flourished 300 bce), who dissected human cadavers and thus gave anatomy a considerable factual basis for the first time.

Given the crucial importance of the Prolegomena in this respect, it is natural to return to Kant's famous remarks in the Preface to that work, where, as we have seen, Kant says that "it was the remembrance of David Hume which, many years ago, first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave my investigations in the field of speculative philosophy a completely different direction".