Sentence examples for speculative over from inspiring English sources

But the idea has proved controversial, with Kevin Anderson, the deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change branding negative emissions "highly speculative" over the weekend.

Instead, apart from increasing bank leverage ratios, which makes lending even harder, and separating commercial and investment banks, which makes the latter more focused on large firms, we have today the same incentives and tax structures that favour speculative over productive finance (eg low capital gains tax, high tax on work).

The Canadian police searched 13 brokerage firms in the Toronto area today as part of an investigation into illegal activity in speculative over-the-counter stocks.

Speculative grammarians took over Priscian grammar but relabeled the parts of speech to show their "modes of signifying".

UBS excepted, Switzerland did not indulge in an Anglo-Saxon-style speculative boom over the past decade.

A speculative frenzy over tulips in the Netherlands in 1633 37 is now known as the Tulip Mania.

— DUNCAN IRVING Coentrao and Meireles combine well and win a corner after Cech pushes a speculative effort over the bar.

Hoban was born in 1925, quietly redefining the novel with genre-bending, speculative fiction over a career that spanned sixty years until his death in 2011.

"We lost ours four weeks ago," said Doreen Carruthers, a London homemaker who was casting a speculative eye over the home's crop of Staffordshire bull terriers, her favorite breed.

He recounted that he had recently reread the classic book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," which explored such manias as the speculative panic over tulip bulbs in Holland during the seventeenth century.

No, IT, the inventor Dean Kamen's mystery contraption, vague hints of which led to a $250,000 book contract and a slew of speculative publicity over the last two weeks, could not possibly be an anti-gravity device.