Sentences with phrase «reasonable assumptions about»

Referring to an association as a «group» rather than a firm or partnership is not enough, the court held, to overcome the public's reasonable assumptions about issues like confidentiality among the group's lawyers.

Making reasonable assumptions about panel life, annual energy generation and inverter replacement time, we (Local Power) in 2008/2009 have installed small scale 3kW residential systems in Brisbane which cost 24 - 33c / kWh.

An important point, which we have discussed elsewhere on attribution of CO2 in the Ice Cores, when comparing data looking for signals, is that we are making reasonable assumptions about what we would expect to see before we looking at the data.

Their estimate is based on reasonable assumptions about the amount of investment needed; the higher profits in the energy sector needed to pay for that investment; and the higher prices needed to pay for those profits.

Even using ECS = 3.2 C per CO2 doubling and a high damage function, the abatement cost greatly exceeds the projected benefits for all of this century for any reasonable assumptions about achievable participation rates.

But with this sort of information in hand, you can at least make some reasonable assumptions about how many years your nest egg may need to support you.

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Under any reasonable assumptions about the value to these students of attending a more - selective college, the benefits of the ECO-C Intervention far exceed its costs.

The task requires students to convert minutes to hours, estimate average daily usage for appliances that are not used everyday, make reasonable assumptions about an «average one person» household and convert between watts and kilowatts.

I consider that if funding is sufficient we have a 50/50 chance of developing technology within about 25 to 30 years from now that will, under reasonable assumptions about the rate of subsequent improvements in that technology, allow us to stop people from dying of aging at any age — equivalent to the effect of today's antiretrovirals against HIV.

Police forces and authorities had generally made reasonable assumptions about the financial challenge ahead, and used these to work out their budgets for the next four years.

We have enough of a sample size on the Knicks without their star to make reasonable assumptions about Beasley's production going forward.

Ontario's revenue outlook is based on reasonable assumptions about the pace of growth in Ontario's economy.

This error will have a distribution that will depend on the underlying distribution of temperatures, but it will be uncorrelated, or very close to uncorrelated, with the underlying true temperature for any reasonable assumption about true underlying temperatures (please note I said uncorrelated, not independent, since they will certainly not be independent).

200ppm additional CO2 is toughly twice all we have put in since 1945 and consistent with a reasonable assumption about growth of output and mitigations likely to be made naturally through changing technology.

Not exact matches

Chan prefers to talk about «reasonable assumptions that the future will be like the past.»

Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market specific and other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

While it is impossible to be precise about the magnitude or the timing of near - term movements in commodity prices, this assumption seems reasonable on the grounds that industrialisation and urbanisation in China still has some way to run.

If we make the reasonable assumption that one Australian has an environmental impact equivalent to fifty Indonesians, the total environmental impact of Australians would be the equivalent of about one billion Indonesians!

Science gives the facts about the ocean and then reasonable people decide what is best based on «reasonable» assumptions.

The last blog post contained some criticisms about whether the assumptions for the analysis were reasonable.

Much of the public conversation about school quality rests on a reasonable assumption, namely that we can reliably assess school quality by the measures currently in use.

To produce the last $ 36,000 of income, they tap into their TFSA which will have grown by retirement to about $ 320,000 (based on certain reasonable investment assumptions).

Cash is better used to pay down debts — This is a reasonable point, but because I am talking mostly about investing for the future, I am operating under the assumption that you don't have an unreasonable debt burden and large debts like mortgages will be paid off by the time you retire or otherwise need your money.

But we are talking here about a few percent difference and much more reasonable assumption would be much more male players than female players.

If I'm wrong about your age, that's fine, but, don't make assumptions that people who argue for being reasonable aren't «hard core» enough.

The current IPCC consensus forecast is that, under fairly reasonable assumptions for world population and economic growth, global temperatures will rise by about 30C by the year 2100.

This is more or less making certain assumptions about the partial derivatives of e.g. «global average temperature» with respect to all sorts of stuff that are almost certainly untrue and are very likely not even true enough to be a reasonable short term approximation (the separability).

We can only hope that The Post «s editorial board will also reach a reasonable conclusion about their editorial policy: that they should adopt a practice of ensuring their opinion pieces on climate are factual and not misleading, with the operative assumption that the world's scientists actually are right about the subjects that they have spent their lives studying.

It is a fairly reasonable assumption, possibly even the modern usage of Occam's razor (but not the original formulation which was a «proof» of the existence of God) that anybody screaming about «THE TRUTH» is probably no closer to «the truth» than could be achieved by me and a dart board (or any other high - entropy randomisation method).

The court also found that Tammen did not «exercise reasonable care» in obtaining or communicating this information, as nothing in the record indicated any source for his statement other than his own assumption about the sources of water from the pipe.