Sentences with phrase «rough analogy»

Rough analogies with past conditions (e.g. sea level rise was big 125,000 years ago, and fast 15,000 years ago, so therefore it makes sense that sea level rise should be big and fast now) don't take into account any constraints imposed by glacier dynamics, and they neglect the fact that we live in a vastly different world glaciogical world than we did 15,000 years ago.

(That's a very rough analogy, but it gives you a feel for the layout.)

A rough analogy is that we are trying to build the equivalent of the transcontinental railway.

It would be helpful for them to remember that Muhammad is a rough analogy not only to the religious visionary Jesus, whose kingdom was «not of this world,» but also to the conquering ruler Constantine, whose kingdom was very much of this world; Islam has consequently had a vastly harder time abandoning its theocratic aspirations.

«While rodents are essential for understanding mechanisms at a cellular or molecular level, at a higher cognitive level, the best you could do was a sort of rough analogy.

A rough analogy: How many rolls of a dice do you need before you can determine the nature of its bias.