Sentences with phrase «on a hunch about»

Rather than piling into distressed strategies based on a hunch about the cycle turning, LPs may be better off diversifying by type of manager.

But when it comes to spending that money, people are often content to rely on their hunches about what will make them happy.

In fact, Sclafani told me that they had based their selection of foods on a hunch about what rats preferentially like, and so that's why they included cheese in the list.

Not exact matches

The reason: Most of today's conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about «colors and the mind.»

Caterina Fake, the serial entrepreneur behind Flickr, Hunch and Findery talks about the pain of hiring the wrong people, being surrounded by others smarter than you and always needing to be on your to...

I had a hunch, based on my own work with local congregations, that in the «mainline» Protestant world that I know best, lots of laypeople really do want to think seriously about their faith, and somehow they aren't getting enough help in doing that well.

And when you lick the bowl think about me slaving away on another literary analysis or critical theory paper, hunched over my computer, probably not even with matching socks on.

(Just a hunch based on everything everyone not named John Calipari has ever said about one - and - done's effect on college basketball.)

On Thomas Vermaelen, his departure is not even as sad as Winterburn getting his hunch wrong about the player's destination.

If you're sitting up, having something to prop your feet up will help with your posture so you're not hunching over to baby (I struggled with this, but my mom stayed on top of me about it the week she was with us).

But even those columnists who dared to mutter out loud about the possibility of a Conservative majority were going on nothing more than a hunch.

Its wide, airy space allows extra steps to be bolted to the top of the infinite staircase as necessary to fill in gaps below, making good on Gödel's hunch about rooting out the unsolvability that riddles mathematics.

At the same time, though, Gödel had a crazy - sounding hunch about how you might fill in most of these cracks in mathematics» underlying logical structure: you simply build more levels of infinity on top of it.

For Evans, collecting data has always been a way to keep tabs on his habits, track his goals, and confirm or dispel hunches about his daily existence.

Abramson already has a hunch about one factor that will rise to the top, on the basis of unpublished data from his cohort, which started off in those FEMA trailers.

My hunch about what's going on here is that a lot of my issues are gut related.

«God's Pocket» will be directed by John Slattery, who you know as «Mad Men»» s silver fox Roger Sterling but who is making the move to directing (having helmed several excellent episodes of the series in which he stars), adapting a Pete Dexter novel about Mickey (Hoffman), whose attempts to move on after the suspicious, and not unwelcome, death of his unstable stepson are frustrated by a local reporter with a hunch.

The producer Mr. Suzuki said he had offered me the job after hearing Mr. Miyazaki talk about my work on the last film Ponyo, whereas Mr. Miyazaki said he had a «hunch».

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

My hunch is that he is a perfectionist on typos and any other errors and that he heard about enough of them in the early days after publication that he wanted to fix them.

A dog that's about to attack or bite will usually have its weight resting mostly on its forelegs; its shoulders will be tense and hunched

On the other hand, if you have strange dreams about nailing the perfect run and spending hours hunched over a piece of grid paper planning optimal routes, then rejoice: Volume takes that pared - down formula, pares it down, and then pares it down again for good measure.

Are you really, really serious about allowing the build - up of CO2 to a level not seen since Antarctica first acquired its ice sheet, just on your belief, or suspicion, or hunch, contrary to what those that have actually studied these things think they know, that this «control knob» might not be doing much; just because scientists have not managed to prove, to your satisfaction, that consequences like the above are certain, rather than just very well possible?

But I have a hunch about what is going on.

I agree with you about the planned obsolescence (though I suspect, based on pure hunch, that it isn't always entirely planned these days, but is sometimes emergent from «the way we do things.»)

Five months ago, I blogged about winning a driving while intoxicated trial when the judge ruled that the police stope of my client's car was unconstitutional, for being based on no more than a hunch about whether my client or his passenger had been involved in an amorphous...

But, he insists, judges are unlikely to understand or care about a statistical study, or an experiment on judicial hunches garlanded with cites to the behavioral literature, or management experts telling them how to run their courts.

The most ridiculous thing about how many times we found ourselves hunched near an outlet at the airport or perched on the edge of the bed just barely within the reach of the charging cable is how cheap and readily available longer cables are.

I thought Om's interview with Systrom was the highlight of last year and wrote about it on CMO.com — how, in the product development stage, you need hunch - based development.