Sentences with phrase «about the assumption of»

That one word speaks volumes about the assumptions of the Clinton campaign and many of its supporters.

Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.

So I can't really speak to a specific about some assumption of hiding.

In an interview I read, Jack Whitten talked about the assumption of «illustrated imagery as conveying a narrative.»

They prefigure Blinky Palermo's Stoffbilder paintings, begun in Germany in 1966, and raise questions about the assumptions of painting that would come to the fore in the following decade in the West: the relationship between support, frame, and picture plan; the notion of surface flatness; the implication of readymade, found, or commercial form; and the belief of artist as creator.

Given that we're talking about an assumption of lives lost, you can already see the savings in human lives right there, especially since the tornado can miss the cars and take out the bus as well.

The point of this, in relation to Schmidt's claims about an assumption of a static environment is that it simply isn't true.

Not exact matches

All too often people in management roles take things personally and make assumptions about the intentions of the people they are responsible for managing or servicing.

«The reason for this pushback lies in many of the unconscious assumptions we all hold about women and men,» Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the founder of Lean In, wrote for The Wall Street Journal.

Arrow and Debreu were able to show the existence of an equilibrium between supply and demand in a free, competitive economy — but they also made clear that this could only exist if a given set of assumptions about the economy and consumer behavior were true.

For millennials, this means examining large sections of the population before making assumptions about what constitutes success or failure in this increasingly strange and demanding modern economy.

The problem with a lot of these fads, and offices in general, is that many are made at the behest of the big boss making assumptions about what their people need to work their hardest.

They stimulated you to think about new ways of doing things, allowed you to question assumptions, and never criticized you for making mistakes.

Then neither one of you will base your actions and next steps on assumptions about what was said, but rather upon an agreed - upon direction.

«We've not really had access to this in the end user and open source hacker community, and it changes a lot of assumption about how we write software,» says Adrian Cockcroft, a technology fellow at Battery Ventures.

And knowing that government agencies that do budget projections are forced to make assumptions about an unknowable future, we shouldn't be too critical of them.

Contrary to the received wisdom that self - interest is in our DNA (a belief that's led to no end of faulty assumptions about how homo economicus will respond in any given situation), Benkler adopts the research suggesting that altruism is passed down both culturally and genetically.

It essentially allows the government to estimate the future benefit of tax cuts to the economy after making a load of assumptions — including about what a future government might do in response to falling tax revenue.

That assumption doesn't say as much about King James's skills as it does about the inner workings of your own brain.

«All of our past assumptions about how the user interacts with information are being challenged.

The report's authors make a lot of assumptions about the technology that may well prove wrong.

«Today, our default assumption about creativity is that it's the result of serendipitous exchanges, of brainstorming, of ideas building on each other rapidly and spontaneously — not a result of hard thinking that requires serious concentration.»

The private equity firm will buy the remains of the company for $ 310 million plus the assumption of about $ 115 million in debt.

If we make the generous assumption that iPhones will account for about 20 % of that installed base, then Apple's installed base will grow from 448 million smartphones to 835 million by 2017.

But what we are seeing now is that that payment data can be combined with other datasets, in order to prove or disprove assumptions about customers and to drive a degree of personalization through all of the one - to - one marketing channels.

Often veterans will not even apply because of assumptions about needed prerequisites.

Over the next few weeks, each of them went around asking employees about their needs, researching past expenditures, testing the production scheduler's assumptions, checking with the various buyers, forcing Carrigan to defend his calculations.

Using some algebra and a few modest assumptions back in February, I found that out of about 77.4 million iPhones sold, 27.2 million were for the iPhone X and 50.2 million, other versions of the phone.

Still, one conclusion seems irrefutable: As Dadich's memo points out, people make assumptions about others based on the appearance of their workspaces.

He has a theory about why the markets swooned: «Necessary changes in the stance of monetary policy removed the complacent assumption that «all bad news is good news» (because it brought renewed stimulus) that many felt underpinned markets.»

For these reasons, Uber is Fortune's most important private company of 2016, a global bully that is ferociously fighting competitors with names like Lyft, Didi, and Ola, even while it is changing assumptions about everything from drunk driving to seamless payment for services rendered.

«It clearly sends the signal that they intend to apply their management principles of cost - cutting and meritocracy as they describe it — the youthful assumption that it can always be done better — which will now be applied to the much more profitable and successful acquired company, in a country they've never worked in before,» Danahy said about the prospective new owners.

Any attempt to assess the potential economic impact of a Syria mission depends on a key assumption about foreign policy: Should President Obama decide for intervention, will the mission look more like Iraq and Afghanistan or Libya?

The court ordered an auction, but when no other suitors presented themselves, Gaglardi's offer of US$ 51 million cash for the team and the assumption of debts worth about $ 100 million was accepted (ESPN reports the final tally as being higher, around US$ 265 million).

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He noted that «about two - thirds of the public pension funds that we follow have reduced their return assumptions since 2008, some more than once.»

I mean the basic framework and assumptions we use to talk about the practice and profession of management, our underlying beliefs about what corporate leaders and managers are trying to achieve, and how they go about achieving it.

Jill Mavro says the training has changed the tone of management discussions, empowering her to confront peers about assumptions that work to a woman's disadvantage.

While all of these infrastructure policy programs have an explicit focus on accelerating capital formation for infrastructure, they rest on the assumption that information about viable projects is readily available within the economy.

Sometimes Trunk was asked by clients to leave meeting rooms because they didn't know she was a partner, and they made assumptions about the kind of relationship she had with her colleague.

Google's vice president of diversity, Danielle Brown, sent a memo in response to the furor over the weekend, saying the engineer's essay «advanced incorrect assumptions about gender».

Partly through studying ice, he looks at what happened during other carbon cycles thousands and even millions of years ago in order to make assumptions about what could happen today.

Danielle Brown, the company's recently hired vice president of diversity, integrity and governance, sent employees a memo on Saturday responding to the engineer's essay, saying the document contained «advanced incorrect assumptions about gender,» and that it was not something that she «or this company endorses, promotes, or encourages.»

Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market specific and other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

Given Big Ass's in - house knowledge about all things ventilation, it was worth examining if they could turn some of those air - mixture assumptions into givens.

My second biggest issue with it has more to do with the time in which it was written — it's now about 40 years old — and the fact that it seemed to be reflective of attitudes and assumptions that I no longer carry in today's world.

The model on which it was based is a marvel of restrictive assumptions: an economy that is closed to trade, expectations about inflation that are essentially myopic, interest rates that are largely impervious to the demand for credit and investment that is largely impervious to interest rates.

Even if only a few of these assumptions about Amazon's interests were correct, they would limit Amazon to only one to three places.

Ontario's revenue outlook is based on reasonable assumptions about the pace of growth in Ontario's economy.

Studies range widely in their conclusions about the degree to which Americans are likely to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement, largely because of different assumptions about how much income this goal requires.