Sentences with phrase «good assumption if»

The other answer assumed 1W per light, which may be a better assumption if there's three of them.

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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.
If the news is good and you see a steady string of positive cash balances across the bottom row, you know that, assuming your data is good and your assumptions reasonable, your business has a good chance of making it.
This is a personal risk for employees, but it also offers them an incentive to work harder and see the company do well on the assumption that if the business does well they will see a payoff, too.
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.
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.
Even if the current theory of evolution turns out to not be 100 % correct, it is a FAR better assumption than that some Beard Man or Zeus or whatever made us out of magic dust or something.
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.
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.
In the records of what Jesus said there is no doctrine of total depravity, but neither is there a sentimental assumption that if a person is well nurtured and his intentions are good, his acts will be good enough.
I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.
If we listen attentively to the story when it is well told, it will also break our conventional assumptions, for it announces that the world is not the way we thought it was.
We can, if we feel we must, for the sake of our prior assumptions, strive to convince ourselves that all of that is just so much maudlin anthropomorphism; but we might just as well try to convince ourselves that the kindred feelings and thoughts we fancy we perceive in our fellow human beings are just so much mawkish «idiomorphism.»
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.
Right now, however, doors are slamming and voices are raised upstairs, so I think I'd better go put my own assumptions about children and parenting, if not education right now, into some kind of forceful action.
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.
If you are hesitant about the assumptions, try your best to get along without them.
For they operate under the assumption that, if nothing else, the Bible in its developmental as well as its received form is a sacred book.
While I wonder if Turner is using too tight a definition of fulfillment, his attempt to point out some unexamined assumptions about the text are well taken.
I wonder if we could do a better job in the formation of Catholic thinkers — perhaps with Youth Education classes, perhaps in the Newman Centers — in preventing the assumption that the life of faith has to be compartmentalized away from all other mental activity, where it can have no real effect.
It is all too easy to accept unthinkingly the assumption that if some increase in government is good, even necessary, then more of that necessary good thing must be even better.
You see, I have a lot of expectations and assumptions about what a good sugar cookie should be if I'm going to put that thing in my mouth.
So to say that medieval peasants fared better in diet than the rich is wrong BUT in the modern context, if you compared eating standards of poor communities and the upper class in countries such as Guatemala or El Salvador, this assumption is more correct.
I've always been under the assumption that if something can be made better in this world and isn't being made better, like in All the Presidents Men, follow the money until you find the person who would financially be in conflict with change.
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.
Sims didn't have the best round of spring practices, which lent to the assumptions, as did Coker's decent (if rare) play in Tallahassee.
Of course, if group wins materialise over Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica then people will begin to get excited but, for now, the assumption is they will probably be back home by the end of June and, strangely, that may well work in the Three Lions» favour.
Ok, so there seems to be some very quick nasty assumptions here... Ones with the idea of if you hate your animals you should never reproduce because in their opinion you will be unable to feel affection for the creature you give birth to... Well, I would just like to say, I am an animal lover, I always have been.
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?
There has been an assumption that people should «just know» if they would make good parents.
However, it might be better if this information comes from someone other than you since they've made some (unfair) assumptions about your parenting.
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.
The fundamental assumption is that power, in zero - sum terms, belongs to Whitehall and it may release some to a local elite if they are deemed to be responsible and can demonstrate they will behave well (i.e. not make too much fuss about the scale of cuts in local government spending).
So, if Democrats do manage to eke out a win here, I think it's a safe assumption that Felder could very well be back in play.
«If people are being abused, raped and murdered, it's a safe assumption that the system is not being well - managed, right?»
David Cameron argued this would be good for families as well as helping to close the gender pay gap by undermining the assumption that it is always women that will take a lengthy career break if they choose to have a child.
Schaefer argued that ---- given GENDA's strong polling and the progress made this year on educating senators ---- if Senate leadership were willing to step up, there is no reason GENDA could not win approval next year, despite the customary assumption that tough votes are best avoided during an election year.
In the de Blasio administration, my team insisted on pulling from a diverse pool of applicants, and if you didn't have a diverse pool, the assumption was we didn't do a good enough job in getting the opportunity out there.
«It wouldn't surprise me if that's why they announced the no fracking in the morning on the assumption that the good news would be about the casino in the afternoon, and the two would offset,» Gural said, recalling Dec. 17, when state officials also said they would not permit natural gas hydrofracking.
«If a member said, «Fund X group,» the assumption was... it was a good group.
«If people are being abused, raped, and murdered, it's a safe assumption that the system is not being well managed,» Cuomo told reporters Thursday.
Go and read it again and listen to the seminar via video, was just assumption that if electricity, security and corruption have been dealt with Nigeria economy would have been better ok and its not the BBC or World rating okay
There's an assumption that if you can't even get a good recommendation from the head of your lab, you must not deserve a good recommendation.
«A basic assumption is that if individuals can obtain sufficient levels of well - being — economic, social and psychological — from living off public benefits, compared to being employed, they would prefer the former.
But that assumption can cause «medical mischief,» according to the NIH's Kramer, who says that detecting such early - stage cancers can cause more harm than good if the cancer cells were unlikely to have caused a problem over the person's lifetime.
In a normal efficacy study, the researchers start with the assumption that the drug doesn't work, and allow themselves to be «surprised» if the statistical analysis shows that the drug has worked much better than expected.
Dietary cholesterol is not a good predictor of heart disease or other degenerative diseases if this is based on the assumption that cholesterol specifically causes heart disease.»
In effect, if correct, my assumption reveals our dietary customs, food culture and corporate profits of industrial agriculture are the perfect storm turning all of us consumers into ready for slaughter animals... well, if we were back in the foodchain.
When we test to see if one of the Branches has been called out (e.g., an IgA response) we make the assumption the «Marines» are well - funded and well - equipped to respond.
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