Sentences with phrase «usual assumptions»

Carbon Tracker warned last month that big energy companies are ignoring rapid advances in clean technologies which threaten to undermine their business models, such as renewables, battery storage and electric cars, in a report [1] challenging nine business as usual assumptions made by the industry to argue that coal, oil and gas will all continue to grow in the next decades.

That's made some of the usual assumptions about what drives GBPUSD somewhat redundant.

The usual assumption in group therapy thinking is that a group can not be both insight - oriented and «repressive - inspirational.»

Paul tells his readers to be transformed by the renewing of their minds, perhaps we might take this to mean transformed from the usual assumptions of the crowd.

The usual assumption in interpretation is that one takes a given passage or text and by detailed analysis, careful study and imaginative but disciplined meditation determines as accurately and in such detail as possible all of the meaning expressed and implied therein.

The usual assumption is that child labor is one of those uglies from the dark ages (read, before the New Deal).

I don't think they're operating under the usual assumptions most rebuilding teams with young cores have.

In fact, understanding why bullies target specific kids requires moving past the usual assumptions.

As noticed by Satterthwaite, the original theorem immediately implies that, on the subset of configurations where all voters have strict preferences, the system is dictatorial (given the usual assumptions, i.e. non-manipulability and at least 3 eligible candidates).

While no one can say with certainty what sort of life might be turned up by these experiments, the usual assumption is that it will be microbial, as single - celled life is adaptable to a wide range of environments and requires less energy.

On the usual assumption that an author gets less attention in a big agency, Geller pointed out that each agent at Curtis Brown UK (which has some 80 staffers total) has three support people, giving an author more attention than a very small shop can produce.

If you want to see how much in monthly payments it would take to fund college, but not have to contribute while the student is in college, then do this: First run the program given all of the usual assumptions, but with no monthly contributions, in order to generate the monthly contributions needed to fund college.

Investing at periodic intervals is known as dollar cost averaging (DCA), and the usual assumption is that it lowers both risk and return because you accumulate your position over time and at different prices.

Presenting perhaps lesser known works by such influential artists upends our usual assumptions and base of knowledge, allowing us to reevaluate our own ideas about this work and affords the challenge and the pleasure of grappling with ideas and the ever - changing web of art history.

tested against the observed behavior of the ice and the usual assumptions about the future of the climate in the Greenland region over the coming decades, comprise the pieces of the puzzle needed to come up with an estimate of how fast things are really proceeding in Greenland.

«This finding contradicts the usual assumption that tree growth eventually declines as trees get older and bigger,» says Nate Stephenson, the study's lead author and a forest ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Scenario A had exponentially increasing CO2, Scenario B had a more modest Business - as - usual assumption, and Scenario C had no further increases in CO2 after the year 2000.