Sentences with phrase «at best an assumption»

Resolving mother's fears and helping her connect with the baby are at best an assumption regarding the «softer side» of the product's results.

The IPCC reports seems to be models with at best some assumptions pulled out of this air.

Not exact matches

The agreements — don't gossip, don't take things personally, don't make assumptions, and do your best — help me start from a rational position of trying to understand the issue at hand, without bringing any negative mental baggage that may come along naturally if I weren't aware of them.

So unless you explain to me logically why it doesn't make sense at our company, my assumption is that it's a good idea.»

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.

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

Looking back at the cost gap figure above, the potential revenue generated by EOR is only about $ 50 - 60 / ton, and that is in the best plays under the assumption of high oil prices.

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.

When you are able to select company trading at a 20 % discount, you know that even if your assumptions are not perfect, you have a very good margin of safety.

«We don't have a set of assumptions about men being better at STEM than women.

The best way to answer that question is to assume that the S&P had always traded at its current valuation, and calculate what it's historical return would have been on that assumption.

This is better than doing no planning at all, but I think a customized set of assumptions is always better than using a generic rule of thumb.

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

If there is one thing that science is good at, it is challenging assumptions.

So how does your school of thought apply regarding the fewest of explanations and fewest assumptions apply when it comes to God who does not want to be made readily known in the first place, but wants us to develop faith in that God instead.Your school of thought could apply well if the notion of God was a God who either wants to be made known or doesn't care whether or not to be made known, but your school of thought doesn't apply at all if said God does not want to be made known but would rather have humanity develop faith, which is not a perfect knowledge.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

That has turned out to be, at best, a highly dubious assumption.

But you came in here with an underlying assumption that anybody that believes differently than you (at least on the topic of gay Christians, though I suspect it would apply more broadly) is just ignoring and or twisting scripture to appease what «feels good» to them.

Even now, she says, when she knows the demographic facts perfectly well, somewhere in the back of her head is the working assumption that at least one - third of the country is Jewish.

(While it may have been the best possible at the time, given the assumptions and available categories, it denies the full humanity of Jesus, does not provide a basis for understanding God's ideal relation to us, and entails all the problems of supernaturalism, among other problems.)

, 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.)

Even before we get to Genesis we have to first find out 1) what is God and 2) what does «existence» mean and 3) does God exist, we have not done any of these we just assumed that the other person knows what we mean by these terms, a dangerous assumption at best.

At the level of theory, he believes that «this vast Platonic assumption, sometimes in its baptized, Christian form,» which affirms a single version of the good life for all, is internally incoherent.

Friedersdorf's argument relies on a more modern assumption: that what is other or different is, as such, good and lovable — or at least tolerable.

A fundamental assumption in this approach is that an imperfect world is better than no world at all.

If we are right in these assumptions, the best explanation is that only the name of Goliath is an essential error of the present story and that it is a later addition to the narrative in the only place where it appeared in the original story, namely, at 17:4.

There were blood covenants among many primitive peoples, ratified often by ritualistic sacrifices, but with the assumption that the deities must be appeased, or their vanity flattered, or at best that the honor of the gods depended on the faithfulness of the people.

On more than one occasion, I took my right hand and fellow partner in crime (if you will forgive the comparison), Ian Metcalfe, along to meetings with me (we were ace at good cop - bad cop — I'll let you decide who played which role), and more often than not, the meetings were directed at Ian with the assumption that I worked for him.

Basing your assumptions on the first few sentences is irresponsible at best.

Best Interview: Rachel Stone at Her.Meneutics interviews William Webb about egalitarianism «Webb: I think this question betrays two incorrect assumptions.

Atheists aren't mad at Christians, well not all Christians and not all Atheists, they are just tired and frustrated about all the pseudo-Christians (my term for them) who attack facts with assumption and ignorance.

Sugar content «Drinking lots of fruit juice on the assumption that more is good for you is simply not correct,» agrees Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at Glasgow University.

If you look at the best keepers around most are at least 6» 2, so I've always had the assumption that height is an important quality of a top keeper.

I'm really not trying to be a dick here, nor am I making assumptions about you — I've never played video games regularly and probably haven't played one at all in a good 20 years — but I also don't think I need to apologize for calling an idea stupid.

My assumption is that Bellerin will probably be our regular RB as well — at the moment he is probably the second or third best RB in the country — Debuchy will really struggle to displace that especially after missing a year.

Obviously this requires the base assumption that none of the three English clubs will finish in the top half at the end of the season but, whilst we would not write any of them off, the signs right now are not good.

Not to mention Liverpool wont let him leave on the Cheap so were looking at about # 50 - 60 million on a person who manages «18 Goals and 14 Assists» Over the course of 4 years and were going on the assumption to tell us he can «potentially be good» You don't need an Economist to tell you what a bad return on investment that is.

And if breast is best, and if insurance companies have to pay out less money for women and babies who successfully maintain a healthy breastfeeding relationship (this on the assumption that, in fact, breastfed babies and mothers are healthier and less at risk for a variety of chronic ailments or cancers)- wouldn't it be in their best interest to shell out a couple hundred bucks for help their working, nursing mothers maintain a breastfeeding relationship?

Working moms, it could be argued, need society's assumptions and judgment, well, not at all.

Experiencing the sudden loss of her mother to cancer at age 10, she was struck by life's brevity and the naiveté of her assumption that one had to rule the world to make it a better place.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

He was visibly distraught at the assumption that a diet consisting entirely of brown finger food is «good enough» for kids to grow up on.

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

As well as the good intentions of governments, there was that assumption of trust at the heart of the system...

Julian Glover's assumption that senior Tories might well benefit from improved clarity as to their intentions might result in an ideological war that Labour may think it can capitalise on (by taking the Coalition's necessity argument at face value, Labour will be able to uphold the seemingly reasonable position - that there are no social democratic ends by stateless means.)

Well, based on the assumption that a vote is cast in anticipation that the recipient of the vote is going to win, it seems to me that a vote cast for David Cameron or whoever is the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the election is far more likely to see a winner than any vote for the Liberal Democrats will do.

The reviewer wrote, «[i] t would probably... be beneficial to find one or two male biologists to work with (or at least obtain internal peer review from, but better yet as active co-authors)» to prevent the manuscript from «drifting too far away from empirical evidence into ideologically biased assumptions.»

Each of these uses intuitive assumptions of what a good image looks like, but these assumptions have to be hand - coded into the algorithms,» said Matthias Zwicker, the Reginald Allan Hahne Endowed E-Nnovate Professor in Computer Science at UMD and senior author of the research presentation.

She said her research provides the evidence to «reject the assumption'that women have better access to flexible working arrangements and that female - dominated workplaces are better at providing them.

This is reasonable physical assumption, given today's best quantum memories are able to store information for minutes at most.