Sentence examples for tenuous assumptions from inspiring English sources

Those three measures all appear to be based on rather tenuous assumptions.

"Is it prudent public policy to operate facilities of such immense hazard on such tenuous assumptions?" Lochbaum asks.

This episode illustrates why estimates for overdiagnosis based on national trend data involve tenuous assumptions and are fraught with dangers.

Although this estimate relies on several tenuous assumptions it serves to show the limitation of extrapolating mtDNA contamination estimates to the nuclear genome.

But they still subscribe to the belief that architecture expresses a society's aspirations, and also to the more tenuous assumption that it can mold society itself.

Often perceived as being tramps, Vladimir and Estragon are a pair of human beings who do not know why they were put on earth; they make the tenuous assumption that there must be some point to their existence, and they look to Godot for enlightenment.

The period of increased susceptibility to overwash impact at Salina Tam (EWE III XI) or EWE II both inferred from SAT 8, might correlate with layer 2.94 2.77 m b.s. in SAT 9 where reworked ostracods were identified; however, this is a tenuous assumption since age control is not available.

Under Bratton, the godfather of zero-tolerance "broken windows" policing, arrests of peddlers and panhandlers on the subway system and of non-violent, low-level offenders in housing projects have spiked, purportedly on the tenuous assumption that such harassment prevents more serious crimes.

That the reservoir is a mammal is a more tenuous assumption.

Importantly natural history models based only on observational data must implicitly assume no selection bias, a very tenuous assumption.

Beyond the counterintuitive flattening of biological objects composed in turn of other composite objects lurks the tenuous assumption that the fields composing the data are regular and recurrent.