Sentence examples for theory fits from inspiring English sources

But "no theory fits the myriad facts," the author concludes.

No theory fits: not poverty, or inequality, or maternal deprivation or paternal absence.

Darcia Narvaez, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame and a contributor to the journal debate, said this theory "fits into evolutionary psychology mainstream thinking at the moment, that everything we do is motivated by selfishness and manipulating others, which is, in my view, crazy".

That theory fits admirably a number of Peloponnesian sanctuaries; for instance, the temple complex of Hera staked out a claim, on the part of relatively distant Argos, to the plain stretching between city and sanctuary, and the Corinthian sanctuary on the promontory of Perachora, also dedicated to Hera, performed the same function.

The theory fits within the framework of the TWR algorithm.

In other words, confirmation is greatest when the theory fits the evidence as well as possible.

But Mr. Bernanke's theory fit the prevailing hands-off, pro-market ideology of recent years.

The theory fitted well with observations of altruism in animals whose kindness was mostly restricted towards kin.

Nor does the hoarding theory fit with a deeper dig into the data, says Joe Grice, the ONS's chief economist.

Since then, it needed ingenious adaptations every decade to make the theory fit the data that stubbornly refused to fit the predictions of its prior iteration.

Mr. Harsanyi's work, Mr. Quigley added, "was instrumental in making economic theory fit the imperfect world in which we live".