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Assumption in sentence

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If the assumption or the model is wrong, so is the estimate.
Shortly after Xi’s assumption of power, he lamented to local officials in Guangdong that when the Soviet Union collapsed, the elite had lost the will to fight.
Even in the case where the direct effect is small – the decoupling assumption – the US slowdown still can have a substantial net impact on European exports because of its indirect effect on Asian imports from Europe.
All of them share the assumption that companies must be mindful of their role in society and work to ensure that the benefits of growth are broadly shared and do not impose unacceptable environmental and social costs.
The assumption underlying the efficacy of Western sanctions is that the sharp economic deterioration that results from them will turn the Russian public, particularly the financial and political elite, against the Kremlin.
No such assumption can be made about Japan, where an aging population will intensify the closed and intellectually arid nature of its society.
While the ECB – like most other EU institutions – has a poor track record on adhering to rules, even its own, the assumption that OMT will be no different is insufficient to justify a ruling against it.
The assumption that what matters, for example, is the smallness or largeness, of the state -- or the size of transfers to low-income people -- does not fit the facts.
The Iran nuclear deal refuted the widespread but naive assumption that geopolitics can drive oil prices in only one direction.
The assumption underlying such nationalist bombast – that a country’s interests are better served by being closed rather than open – is extremely dangerous.
Similarly, loss of wetlands threatened New Orleans’ levees, which were built on the assumption that they would have 40 to 50 miles of protective swamp as buffer between the city and the Gulf of Mexico.
Working on this assumption and given the case it had to solve, an EHCR panel of seven judges ruled against the plaintiffs in February 2006, concluding that the law on special schools is not aimed specifically at Roma and does not apply only to them.
This assumption not only ignored the kuru tragedy; it also overlooked the hundreds of young people who had died of spongiform encephalopathy after receiving growth hormones extracted from human corpses.
The underlying assumption is that more investment is always better, because it increases the capital stock and thus output.
And yet two different American administrations have implied – and consistently acted upon – this assumption.
Unfortunately, the assumption that precision medicine will benefit public health by improving clinical practice does not hold up.
But Trump has repeatedly claimed that true unemployment is 42% – a number based on the assumption that everyone who does not have a job, including retired people and students, would like to work.
However, this would overwhelm the OMT program’s stabilizing effects, which rest on the assumption that the ECB, not private investors, would foot the bill should a country declare bankruptcy.
What if the problem is the assumption that all demand is created equal?
They call for:Not everyone will consider the underlying assumption of this analysis compelling.
At the same time, real-estate developers who have borrowed heavily from shadow-banking institutions, based on the assumption that property prices would continue to rise steadily, may struggle to repay their debts, with a sharp decline in prices inevitably leading to defaults.
It is a valid assumption – and precisely the reason why SOEs should notbe given preferential regulatory treatment.
The FCA proposal suggests that this assumption may no longer be credible, at least not in a United Kingdom hurtling toward Brexit, which has put the City of London’s reputation as a leading global financial center at risk.
The Migrant BoonOXFORD/SHANGHAI – Many of the immigration debates now raging around the world reflect the faulty assumption that admitting immigrants is an act of largesse – and a costly one, at that.
The assumption is that the more risks are shared, the more stable the eurozone will be.
Indeed, contrary to the widely held assumption that evolution takes millennia to manifest itself, recent evidence suggests that its effects can become visible as quickly as in a few generations.
We were wrong, however, about one thing: our assumption that no developed country would have such damaging polices inflicted upon it.
Federal assumption of the states’ war debts also yielded an advantage in terms of economic development: once states no longer had any debt, they had no need to raise any revenues through direct taxation, which might have impeded the growth of America’s internal market.
But the assumption underlying that question – that China is now the global economy’s weakest link – is highly suspect.
But this assumption can produce troubling outcomes.
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