Sentences with phrase «only speculate on»

One can only speculate on how much private capital KiOR attracted based on its success in getting smaller public grants and investments coupled with its $ 1 billion request of the Department of Energy, but those programs certainly played some role.

Regrettably, until the nascent field of dendropsychology receives the level of funding it so obviously demands, we can only speculate on the reasons for the perverse reactions of these unfortunate trees.

«'' Until we can model this lower - frequency behaviour in the tropical Pacific, one can only speculate on how the warming will play out over the next few decades,» said lead author Dr Michael Griffiths from William Paterson University, in the United States.»

One can only speculate on their impact as a background to New School board meetings.

Until Activision make their official announcements usually around May time we can only speculate on what exciting changes lie ahead for the Call of Duty franchise to make it bigger and more dominant in the first - person - shooter genre.

With this and the recent deal with Atari, Sony seems to be in the middle of testing out a new strategy, while none of the games in question are or were expected to have huge sales, one can only speculate on what the next title will be.

While at this moment we can only speculate on what they might be working on, it is great to see them enjoying success and it is pretty clear to us that they are ramping up for something big.

We can only speculate on what happened when, and with who to try and determine where MS lost the chance to meet their projections.

Once can only speculate on why these dogs became strays and how long they wandered the streets together.

Keep in mind, since Mr. Kringle is NOT required to disclose his holdings to the SEC (being a resident of the North Pole), we can only speculate on what stocks he owns in his portfolio.

As such, with further dated oil contracts you can only speculate on reasons for that oil contract.

The iPad continues to claim significant market share now, but we can only speculate on the manufacturers and devices functionality of the future.

Unlike the photo renderings that we usually see of upcoming cars that only speculate on what the final product will look like, these photos are the real thing!

I can only speculate on the reason for the wide voltage range.

We can only speculate on the answers to these important questions.

Since we can only speculate on both those fronts for now, I figured today we'd have a bit of celebrity dress up fun and chat about how to achieve HRH's look.

«We can only speculate on whether obesity might in some way cause these changes or whether obesity is a consequence of brain changes.»

Although researchers can only speculate on what prehistoric artists were trying to express, hypotheses range from shamanistic and ritualistic activities to attempts to capture the spirit of horses and other animals that ancient humans hunted.

And we can only speculate on the diversity of flight ability among extinct avian dinosaurs such as the enantiornithines and the enigmatic, four - winged microraptors, with flight feathers not only on their forelimbs but also on their legs.

Though we can only speculate on the specific causes of this evolution in music, we can still view society's preferences as a metric of the public consciousness.

«I can only speculate on what Mayor Bloomberg might be thinking,» Matt McMorrow, a co-president of Brooklyn's Lambda Independent Democrats, wrote in an email message.

One can only speculate on what effects it might have.

So we can only speculate on why hypothetical people might hypothetically has criticised him.

One can only speculate on a prospective fee, but given that Arsene Wenger was reportedly ready to pay $ 20m (just under # 17m) for the full back and his 16 year - old club mate Kovacic, around # 9m ought to secure the signature of the one of the most sought after young players in the world.

One can only speculate on what celebration could be were mutuality (love) possible in the community of faith: were the oppressed of the earth trusted to become a valid part of that community.

At 49, as a grad student at Fordham, I will open my life to a new network of smart professors, students, and alumni who will expand my perspective and sphere of influence, bringing new opportunities and friendships, the value of which I can only speculate on.

Here, Artspace's Loney Abrams racks the brain of an artist who's not only speculating on the future of the art market — he's making it.

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If you want me to speculate on specific detail, I'm not in a position to do that, only to say that ministers have met and listened to a large number of businesses over the last couple of months and we're quite clear on access being top of the list [of businesses» priorities].»

In a study published in The European Journal of Social Psychology, students who wrote out self - advice using «you» not only completed more problems but said they would be happier to work on more in the future compared with students who used «I.» The researchers speculated this is because second - person self - talk may trigger memories of receiving support and encouragement from parents and teachers in childhood.

Prior to September 2009, the BUND was the only bond future contract available to manage risk and speculate on the European debt markets.

Mariani speculates on the reasons for Stevens's conversion only in passing, hedging with «perhaps» and humorous figures of speech about an insurance lawyer opting to «sign on the dotted line» of the Church's creed.

First, he speculates, but only that, on the physiological effects on brain development.

I can only speculate about how persons who answer so honestly might also go on to say, «Yes, and...» or «Yes, but...» What are the implications of the «yes» for practical as well as intellectual relations to Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, persons with a powerful sense of divinity who are not in Christian congregations, and others?

Despite the fact that they only rate on the high end of what an orange habanero would be heat-wise (somewhere around 350,000 SHU), their special mix of the capsaicinoids — with dihydrocapsaicin being the dominant one — is speculated to be the reason that fataliis taste hotter than 570,000 SHU red savinas to most people that I've talked to.

On this, we can only speculate.

Only today it was speculated that Real had slapped a # 60 Million asking price on their former youth product, following the announcement from Juventus that the Spanish giants had confirmed that they were to trigger the release clause in the 23 year - old's contract.

We can only speculate what's going on behind closed doors.

We're only speculating about what the degree of interest was before the trade, based apparently on the fact that a) Philly has cap space b) they didn't have a good player at PG already and c) Jrue used to play for Philadelphia, which maybe makes him easier to lure back.

Based on that line movement, many bettors may speculate that the downgrade from Tannehill to Moore is only worth one point.

We can only speculate what's going on behind closed doors, and whether Ozil is really struggling with injuries.

For now we can only speculate but I would suggest that they won't quite have the sustainability to challenge the league's best on a regular basis.

At the same time players were exchanging text messages speculating on what might be going on, Mourinho was informed of his sacking by chairman Bruce Buck and director Eugene Tenenbaum in a meeting that lasted only 10 minutes.

on whether a rotated United side would be an advantage to Arsenal... No, the only advantage we can give ourselves is to focus on ourselves and not speculate on any weakness of Manchester United.

I am not really sure of the reasons for the delay in appointing Van Gaal, and can only speculate that he is not in fact the first choice, and they are still working on other possible targets — maybe Ancelotti, Klopp, Simeone or Guardiola, but one thing looks certain, United will have a non-British manager for the first time in our history.

They just speculated (based only on how I acted AFTER they snatched my son) that I was mentally ill.

He declined to speculate on whether the governor might repeatedly call the Legislature back to Albany if members try to skip town without passing marriage, saying only that it would be his «prerogative.»

As for the greater occurrence of infected ticks on the east side of the Hudson River, Ostfeld can only speculate.

It is impossible to speculate on the outcomes, he adds, because research on protection has been carried out only in the lab, so far.

The researchers, who could only speculate why that might be the case, wrote that further research in this area may shed light on the heterogeneity of COPD, leading to better treatments of its distinct features in patients.

Based on this discovery, Rappold speculates that people with Turner's syndrome are short because they have only a single working copy of SHOX.