Sentences with phrase «as good their assumptions»

But the realism of such models are only as good their assumptions and inputs, some of which is worth scrutiny.

Not exact matches

These statements are based on current estimates and assumptions made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that we believe are appropriate and reasonable under the circumstances, but there can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct.

They are subject to future events, risks and uncertainties - many of which are beyond the company's control - as well as potentially inaccurate assumptions, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements.

Spain also announced a 60 billion euro capital shortfall across its national banking system, but the macroeconomic assumptions used in that test are likely too optimistic as well.

Effective leaders realize the value of questioning widely held assumptions and biases - those around them, as well as their own.

That's not myth, but what is a myth is the assumption that they actually have a better life as a result.

«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.

Forward - looking statements reflect current estimates, beliefs and assumptions, which are based on Loblaw's and Shoppers Drug Mart's perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors management believes are appropriate in the circumstances.

It's good to drill a sense of fiscal discipline and challenge assumptions about spending on aspects such as sales, marketing, and engineers.

I use the term «forecast» somewhat loosely, since these are conditioned on a range of assumptions, such as a fixed nominal exchange rate and a particular path for the cash rate, and hence could better be described as «projections».

These include publishing: • Historical estimates and medium - term projections of the economy's potential GDP, as well as the methodology and assumptions used; • Medium - term projections of the Government's structural, or cyclically - adjusted budget balance as well as the methodology and assumptions used; • The assumptions, projections and methods to translate the private sector economic forecasts into its fiscal forecasts; and • The fiscal sustainability analyses of the provincial - territorial government sector that it prepared.

While we use our best estimates and assumptions to accurately value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date as well as contingent consideration, where applicable, our estimates are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement.

The hypothetical failure of the natural fee market depends on all these assumptions combining into an unfavorable outcome, as well as the inability of the system to adjust itself favorably using any of these factors.

We soon put together google docs (1 excel, 1 word) and built our assumptions and hypothesis as well as questions we wanted potential users to answer.

I'm taking account of the diluent requirements in my pricing assumptions, which use Hardisty - based values for diluted bitumen and SCO, as well as for diluent.

This assumption could be recalibrated in either direction, but doing the work now provides a framework for analyzing the situation as it evolves, while also giving us a better balance of risks over the projection horizon.

Based on all the currently available data and that remark from Mr. Alexander, my working assumption is that this episode indeed will be classified as a category 1 recession, but if a different conclusion were reached, it would probably be for very good reason.

Any opinions of outside counsel or other external tax advisors and any IRS private letter ruling will be based, among other things, on various facts and assumptions, as well as certain representations, statements and undertakings of HP Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (including those relating to the past and future conduct of HP Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise).

Forward - looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to the launch timing and success of products based on the BlackBerry 10 platform, general economic conditions, product pricing levels and competitive intensity, supply constraints, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, including its ability to implement meaningful changes to address its business challenges, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding the cash flow generation of its business.

Any opinions of outside counsel or any other external tax advisor and any IRS private letter ruling will be based, among other things, on various facts and assumptions, as well as certain representations, statements and undertakings of HP Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (including those relating to the past and future conduct of HP Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise).

Hint: there won't be; investors are going to see their money burn as well, even under the most generous assumptions about the undoubtedly glorious future.

There is cause for this assumption as the Canadian economy has historically maneuvered a flurry of external stimuli while managing its overheated housing market and overstretched borrowing rather well.

Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

My assumption is that Amazon will have robust Echo sales numbers for Q4 that exceed analyst expectations by a significant margin and apparently exceeded demand projections by Echo inventory planners as well.

Out of an abundance of charity to Professor Leach, and with all due respect to his unimpeachable contributions as Chair of the Alberta Climate Leadership Panel, his argument may well rest on a more nuanced political assumption: that Alberta's leadership is required to bring the rest of the provinces along.

This largely reflects the large March 2003 CPI figure dropping out of the year - ended calculation, as well as the Bank's standard assumption that international oil prices will fall to the middle of the OPEC target band within about a year.

In making the forward - looking statements in this release, the Company has applied certain factors and assumptions that are based on the Company's current beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company, including that all conditions to the closing of the Transactions will be satisfied, including receipt of all required approvals, and the Transactions will complete on the terms set out in the APA and the SPA, the acquisition of the NODE40 Business will have the benefits to the Company anticipated by management, the 5,000 Rigs will be successfully ordered and delivered, the 5,000 Rigs will perform as expected by management and the timing, installation and performance of the 770 Rigs will be consistent with management's expectations.

Bond traders obsess over inflation assumptions, and you should have at least a basic assumption as well.

That's why we need a conversation about it — and the underlying assumptions it is built on — as well as its pastoral outcomes.

It is a faulty assumption that anyone who believes the Bible as a good book must also believe in it literally and rabidly tries to justify every word in it.

But if he doesn't accept the neutrality of methodological and philosophic issues, his assumption is even stronger that the Whiteheadian methodology, as well as his own, are the only true ones.

But it belongs on the rump of the cultural right as well, for Robert Caserio has usefully defined «political correctness» to mean «a prefabricated sense of values, a predetermined set of assumptions about what is good for people and what is bad for them» (quoted in CHE 1).

The assumption is, We're all dying anyway, so we might as well have a grand time while it lasts.

One is political theology in Europe, chiefly Germany, which is best characterized as the voice of the bourgeoisie questioning its own religious and cultural assumptions and its own economic and political systems.

AE / Dala as usual trys to pass off another unsupported (and unsupportable) assumption,» Which gives some of us a better understanding of God.»

What Greenawalt accepts as «rationality» is actually the irrational assumption that we can get along very well without employing any controversial assumptions about the nature of ultimate reality.

I believe that one of the best routes to the center of Whitehead's perspective is to view his metaphysics as an elaboration of a basic value assumption in which the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations reflect a drive in the universe toward the evocation of greater complexity, deeper intensity, and wider range of contrasts within the organic unity of an individual or society.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

As with Murray and those who insist that the founders «built better than they knew,» what the founders may have meant is less significant than what they actually gave us and how that gift was destined to be received in an emerging culture infused with voluntaristic, nominalist, and mechanistic assumptions about God and nature.

And without those intact cultures, the assumption was that the denominational divisions would disappear as well.

The source of the problem, as he sees it, is this set of assumptions: that those elements that are prior (clearest) in consciousness are genetically primitive, that sensory data are the most primitive data of experience, that the elements of experience most clearly expressed by language are the most primitive, and that conscious introspection is the best way to identify the most fundamental elements of experience.

Since there's too much chaos and uneducated rhetoric as well as piles a assumptions bordering on lying, I personally can only assume the author truly has no intellectual understanding of the issue or issues surrounding gun control and has resorted to expressing a disconnected opinion without facts.

, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)

So that leaves us with James Madison as basically the only extremely important founding father who's beliefs concerning an invisible man in the sky weren't well known (the assumption that he was atheist is very likely to be right).

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

Throughout this lecture I have assumed that whatever else we may believe about Jesus we accept that he was, inwardly as well as outwardly, a man: I need not spend time showing that this assumption is to be found in every part of the New Testament.

An assumption of responsibility to not create an unwanted life as well as spread a STD of any kind?

Moreover, we might discover that what scientists assume to be adequate evidence for their assumptions are compatible with what counts as good reasons in religious matters.

It is, of course, a fantastical assumption, and an ableist one as well.

Inside, he wheels past a heavy elevator door and then, with the aid of the students, attempts to negotiate the maze that is a magnificent building constructed on the assumption that everyone using it would be not only a spiritual and intellectual giant but an able - bodied athlete as well!