Sentences with phrase «operate under the theory»

I operate under the theory that it shouldn't cost you anything to have an initial consultation with an attorney about your particular legal problem.

Many law firms — especially smaller firms and solo practitioners — operate under the theory that legal billing is a relatively simple process and thus incorporating automated billing software is not important.

This interview operates under the theory that past performance is often the best indicator of how you'll perform in the future.

Net lease companies operate under the theory that when capital for financing dries up, corporations can free up dollars by monetizing such passive assets as real estate.

Not exact matches

The price drop is an unexpected turn of events for an industry that for decades has operated under the assumption of Peak Oil — geophysicist M. King Hubbert's theory, first proposed in 1956, that the United States» then soaring oil production would peak and begin to decline around 1970.

For example, in the essay's section on «defining success,» Father Neuhaus writes, «Finally, success will be if, three or thirty years from now, Afghanistan and Iraq have reasonably decent and stable governments, operating under something believably like the rule of law...» This lacks the specificity to qualify as a serious application of just war theory.

Labour has always been a «pragmatic» party i.e. one that operates without any clear theory of society, without an economuc theory (it sometimes seems to favour half - digested Keynesian ideas but is always ready to abandon them under pressure), without a political theory and without any underlying systematic critique of the ideas on which it relies.

At back - to - back press conferences Thursday by the heads of the House Republican and Democratic campaign committees, it was abundantly clear that the two sides are operating under entirely different theories about the 2006 midterm election.

Their realpolitik theory was that doing so would cost the government so much money that it would eventually prefer to operate the schools under a unitary, integrated system, instead of paying for two comparably financed systems side by side.

What's tricky is that we actually operate under dual theories of action: an espoused theory and a theory in use.

Back in October, prior to operating results being announced, I was readying to buy into this LP under the theory that the new investors would protect their investment on the downside if more liquidity was needed and thus a total wipeout for the common unitholders was improbable, even if theoretically possible.

Culture — gene coevolutionary theory posits that cultural values have evolved, are adaptive and influence the social and physical environments under which genetic selection operates.

This dual inheritance theory of human behaviour proposes that cultural traits are adaptive and they evolve and influence the social and physical environments under which genetic selection operates (Boyd & Richerson 1985).

Because I didn't know any better, in my mind, I was operating under the common sense theory.

Taking a look at Utah foreclosure laws, you'll find that the state mostly operates under title theory.