Sentences with phrase «operating assumption»

Since we all share these same five core needs, our basic operating assumption is that they are met in the same ways, however, they are met differently for men and women.

Secondly, how the company explains their accounting practices and operating assumptions on issues ranging from an assumed rate of growth for its pensions to depreciation rates on its assets will tell you whether the company is getting too aggressive.

The basic operating assumption of the Competition Bureau is that competition is good for both business and consumers.

«Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5» — including big parts of Seattle, Portland and other major municipalities in Washington and Oregon — «will be toast,» Kenneth Murphy, a regional director for FEMA, told the New Yorker.

The operating assumption in password protection is that if only everyone had some basic understanding of encryption, their passwords would be safe.

Our operating assumption at BitPay is that miners will do as they have indicated and deploy this increase in the block size limit.

They also establish an operating assumption that can liberate Lutherans and other Protestants from rationalizing the divisions of the Church by polemical appeal to the real or imagined flaws of Rome.

Now, the operating assumption is that the anthrax cases, unrelated to bin Laden, are domestic crimes, not acts of war.

But in two regions of the population are a minority of persons who are either presently excluded from many of the benefits of the society or alienated from some of its operating assumptions and values.

At the very least, a renewed culture of hospitality could help debunk what seems (at least on the Internet) to be an operating assumption of Americans on both sides of our religious - cultural - political divides: the belief that our «enemies» are almost uniformly malevolent and unintelligent.

What are our operating assumptions about defilement or corruption?

For years the operating assumption in Albany political circles on both sides of the aisle was that eventually, one day, Democrats would take control of the State Senate, thus completing the extermination of the Republican Party in New York State.

The operating assumption was that other EU countries would not be making use of it so the UK's projections were for 5,000 - 13,000 migrants from the expansion per year.

Among the WIMP hunters, though, the operating assumption is that they simply have not looked hard enough, says LUX spokesperson Richard Gaitskell.

People in public education unwittingly destroy school cultures all the time by treating educators as interchangeable cogs, transferring principals and teachers without regard for a school's approach and operating assumptions, by creating one - size - fits - all mandates that suggest a school's distinctiveness is a nuisance, not a value, and by sending mixed messages and edicts from the central office until people are burned out and resentful.

Their operating assumption seems to be that active managers will do a better job of capital preservation in a challenging and volatile market.

The operating assumption of many (I would say most) debt collectors is that people who are overdue on debts are dishonest deadbeats who can but won't pay up.

Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA's Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, «Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.»

It is our operating assumptions that are wrong.