Sentences with phrase «making big assumptions»

But you sure turned me around for making BIG assumptions.

When it comes to consumer spending, boosters typically make a big assumption: that Olympic purchases will supplement — rather than supplant — normal spending.

Based on your dialogue, it seems to me, and I'm making a big assumption, that you read the Bible without considering the context of the words.

Haha, maybe I am making a big assumption, but I'm assuming you are an atheist.

Most model scenarios make a big assumption: that rising agricultural productivity and vegetable - based diets will limit the need for new farmland.

This is not a fair comparison unless you make some big assumptions.

I also find it interesting that you make the big assumption that everyone here completely denies CO2 causation, and / or anthropogenic factors causing warming.

Let's make some big assumptions: 1) Hyperion will ever actually deliver these modules (apparently the release date for these $ 25 million nuclear plant on a flatbed has been pushed back another year, to 2014); 2) Generating all of the electricity at a tar sands mine through nuclear power will actually reduce emissions to a level comparable to conventional petroleum.

I am making a big assumption that your brother is in very poor health and that he would be declined for all normal channels of life insurance coverage.

We're going to make a big assumption going into this article: you've heard of Microsoft, right?

OxygenOS gives you a handful of customization options, but OnePlus doesn't make any big assumptions about how you want to use your phone — the configuration is all up to you.

So let's make a big assumption that CREA is successful and gets 100 per cent participation and also let's assume that the current results obtained in Quebec and California are an accurate representation of what we can expect from our survey, which would mean that most Realtors are going to have a rating of about 4.5 to 4.75, and as in California, 87.5 per cent will receive a 5.

Not exact matches

The two biggest concepts in the book are not taking things personally and not making assumptions.

The problem with a lot of these fads, and offices in general, is that many are made at the behest of the big boss making assumptions about what their people need to work their hardest.

Not long ago Gregersen asked Guy Wollaert, former chief innovation officer and chief technology officer at Coca - Cola, about the questions that made him challenge his assumptions — and subsequently led to big - picture insights.

I'm really not a big fan of philosophy in general, I admit my epistemological foundations, I acknowledge my assumptions made by necessity, and I move on.

The problem with this argument is you are making the assumption that the Big Bang was true, despite its own problems.

The big bang proves a creation of our Universe and that makes her feel good about her assumptions about «God.»

Folks like Hawking who believe in the Big Bang make the assumption that time started then.

That is a big assumption on your part since you nor anyone has ever provided evedince that God does not exist, and spare me the argument that the burden of proof lies with the believer because both sides are making a definative claim.

I guess you are making a few big assumptions here.

However, my Christian friend, I believe you are making some very big assumptions:

In other words, you are calling out someone for making assumptions when you are making an even bigger assumption.

Its a big assumption to make that Schneiderlin will want to come to us, that we will pay what Southampton are inevitable going to ask by way of Fee's and that we are even going to be in the position whereby we can offer him CL football.

Assuming the above three are all at Madrid next season — which is admittedly a big assumption to make given the endless speculation linking Bale to Manchester United, Benzema's current legal issues and Ronaldo's recent strops — it would be difficult for Hazard to relegate any of the BBC to the bench.

That's probably the biggest takeaway of the survey: how important it is to talk and say what you want, rather than stay silent, not wanting to start a fight, making assumptions, and then letting things fester.»

Actually, I think you're making a very big assumption — people in places like New York, New Jersey, California, Washington State, Massachusetts and Connecticut make more money on average than people in Montana, Alabama, Mississippi, etc., and are hence going to pay both a higher percentage of their income and a higher absolute amount in taxes.

It can capture the radiation precisely enough to measure cosmological quantities without making many theoretical assumptions, detect the rippling of gravitational waves and test various models of the inflation thought to have occurred during the big bang.

Fischetti: Right, and that's making two big assumptions.

Making the generous assumption that humans can survive multiple ice ages and deflect an inevitable asteroid or comet strike (NASA predicts that between now and then, no fewer than 10 the size of the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs will hit), the researchers forecast we will then encounter a much bigger problem: an aging sun.

He makes the standard assumption that the Universe began with the big bang and that its properties are determined by only two numbers: the Hubble constant, which describes the present expansion rate of the Universe; and omega (& Ogr;), the mass density of the Universe.

«The combination of a new method that's not based on assumption but is based directly on data, and also the new data on Africa, have combined to make quite a big change to the overall population projections,» Raftery says.

Big bang advocates make the following two key assumptions, which few realize — including most authors and professors:

The limited information I have leaves me making many assumptions, but at first glance I would consider her likely low body fat percentage to have a bigger impact on her amenorrheic status than her testosterone levels.

There may be some loss but just making an assumption, it doesn't make a difference in the big picture.

So to make any assumptions off this pathetic waste of space is to believe in aliens, big foot and every other mystical creature.

However, before you run off and take that advice, I think a big assumption is being made here and I want to discuss that further in this article.

If, and that's a big assumption at the moment, there is in - fact going to be another Metal Gear Solid, then they'll need to raise adequate amounts of capital to make it a reality and to meet any expectations that fans would have based off of Metal Gear Solid V.

We do think we know about our learners and we make a lot of assumptions and during the last five years that I've been doing action research, if you actually stop and really investigate what students are saying, thinking, feeling, their knowledge, then your action research is going to have such a big impact.

The next step is to identify the big assumptions he's making that keep him at the mercy of his hidden goals.

Miller then makes a pretty big assumption, that DC has the same slice of the digital pie as it does of the print - comics market; if that holds true, he reckons that digital sales amount to 40 million downloads a year.

As a journalist I tend to default to the assumption that people and their employers make big plans for good reasons.

Of course, that does assume that the pirated copy or copies were made with the purchaser's knowledge and agreement — a very big assumption, given how easy it is for hackers to get into a personal computer via a worm or virus.

So basically everybody is making a pretty big assumption that they're always going to find someone to trade it with at a less volatile price than other commodities.

The biggest problem with dividend investment research has been the need to make assumptions.

Another big assumption the research is making here is that the portfolio consists of almost half equities and half bonds whereas I plan my retirement portfolio to hold upwards of 80 % equities.

However, we're making two big assumptions.

One of the biggest errors of judgement novice dog owners make is the assumption that their puppy, just because she's started to obey all the basic commands at 4 or 5 months of age, is «trained».

We can then make a fairly logical assumption that the weight will also be big.

While this is true to an extent, making such an assumption is lazy and foolish, when there's usually a quick, easy and relatively cheap remedy that will leave your pup feeling relieved of any discomfort, whether it's a big problem or not.