Sentences with phrase «made conservative assumptions»

Because of the paucity of data and incomplete information on current practices, the Department has consistently made conservative assumptions (that is, given uncertainty, we have made assumptions that, if incorrect, are more likely to overstate rather than understate the true cost).

But, he adds, he and his colleagues made conservative assumptions.

By building two sets of revenue projections, you'll force yourself to make conservative assumptions and then relax some of these assumptions for your aggressive case.»

I know my logic may not be founded on specific studies (yet), but I think my making a conservative assumption is prudent regarding whey protein concentrates and whey protein isolates.

If you make the conservative assumption that your investments will just keep pace with inflation during the years leading up to age 65, that means you will need an extra $ 50,000 in your nest egg to cover every year earlier you retire.

Let's make some conservative assumptions.

The GHCN adjustment algorithm makes the conservative assumption that neighbouring stations should show similar trends.

Making the conservative assumption that only two million of the seven million deaths are due to coal burning we can calculate that Australian coal causes 110,000 deaths from air pollution per year.

Let's make a conservative assumption that it gets replaced by the lowest emission barrel in the NRDC report, US domestic crude.

Not exact matches

The key is to make conservative, reasonable assumptions and adjust them when they prove wrong.

Unscrupulous executives discovered they could set aside reserves in good periods by making overly conservative assumptions.

A first one for the first 10 years that will reflect best the current situation of the company and another one for the years after that should correspond to a more conservative number in order to make a strong assumption.

Whereas Orthodoxy made belief (doxa) its starting point, and Reform Judaism put ethical monotheism atop its theological pedestal, Conservative Judaism's worldview emanated from a specific assumption about the social nature of Judaism.

The «context of Scripture» became the primary determining factor in defining what the Bible is... The conservatives» reaction was also problematic in that it implicitly assumed what their opponents also assumed: the Bible, being the word of God, ought to be historically accurate in all its details (since God would not lie or make errors) and unique its own setting (since God's word is revealed, which implies a specific type of uniqueness)... Conservatives have tended to employ a strategy of selective engagement, embracing evidence that seems to support their assumptions... but retreating from evidence that seems to undercut these assumpconservatives» reaction was also problematic in that it implicitly assumed what their opponents also assumed: the Bible, being the word of God, ought to be historically accurate in all its details (since God would not lie or make errors) and unique its own setting (since God's word is revealed, which implies a specific type of uniqueness)... Conservatives have tended to employ a strategy of selective engagement, embracing evidence that seems to support their assumptions... but retreating from evidence that seems to undercut these assumpConservatives have tended to employ a strategy of selective engagement, embracing evidence that seems to support their assumptions... but retreating from evidence that seems to undercut these assumptions.»

Let's start with one rather large false assumption made in the quote above by Amanda, affirmed by Martha and the book she was reviewing: that Attachment Parenting (AP) is an elaborate parenting theory created to achieve the same result as the conservative movement — i.e. to hold a woman at home, tied to the kitchen.

Yes it is more staggering that a politician like Ken Livingstone was ever seriously in contention at all The system was designed to make it harder for the Conservative Party though the assumption being that Conservatives are the second choice of relatively few people.

Its core assumption is that ideological conservatives made the Republican Party their vehicle and rallied in lock step against Democrats.

Let's make the most conservative assumption with regard to utilization, which is that parents maintain the same rate of utilization of non-relative care as is presently the case (33 percent).

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

A first one for the first 10 years that will reflect best the current situation of the company and another one for the years after that should correspond to a more conservative number in order to make a strong assumption.

The most important thing I try to focus on is having a margin of safety in my investments and be conservative in making assumptions.

Be willing to make future Best ESTIMATES and ASSUMPTIONS that are NOT conservative but the MEAN Average of those.

Nick Eyre, leader of the Lower Carbon Futures group at the University of Oxford, says some of the assumptions made by the team on how much energy could be saved by efficiency measures may even be overly conservative.

Felten makes a series of conservative assumptions in order to arrive at some estimates of the size of the collected data — the size of the problem, if you will.

While results can vary from firm to firm, the research relies on generally conservative assumptions and interviews with 45 law firms (with 50 attorneys or fewer) to make a compelling business case for practice management.

If you were looking at a UL policy purchase today, it's likely that you would make very conservative assumptions about the investment returns.