Sentences with phrase «hypothetical exercise»

However the potential fragility of such hypothetical exercises is exposed by the fact that the Yes vote would apparently also be boosted somewhat if voters thought that Labour would win the next UK election.

We will never know in this hypothetical exercise.

Since gambling is illegal in most states, we hope you enjoyed this hypothetical exercise.

Since we have not announced a store for New York City, I respectfully suggest the committee first conduct a thoughtful examination of the existing impact of large grocers and retailers on small businesses in New York City before embarking on a hypothetical exercise.

Students must also consider physical and personality aspects of the characters to select suitable actors to play each part (as this is a hypothetical exercise, I usually give them the option of choosing any actor — living or dead — at any age to gain a better idea of how they visualise the characters).

However, let's say for the sake of argument, that Steig has now realized after the fact that «recognition of the error» was initiated by McCulloch (purely as a hypothetical exercise, since we don't even know that it is the case that the chain of realization started with McCulloch).