That assumption is wrong.

But the system rests on the assumption that the government will set accurate benchmark interest rates for risk free assets.

This assumption is patently false.

So that's what statisticians would call an assumption of independence.

This assumption is not so far fetched.

What he said bears out my assumption.

The facts don't correspond with your assumption.

The program terminates by our Assumption (X).

This contradiction proves Assumption (X) cannot hold.

States of Risk

Assessment of risk

Here an exporter faces two types of risk price risk and competitiveness risk.

Sweden s assumption of the EU Presidency this month should help these efforts.

That assumption is the heart of democracy it is a revolution for diplomacy.

How much confidence exists that this assumption is correct?

The second assumption which informs the American view of choice goes something like this.

Traditionally, the assumption has been that it accrues to shareholders.

So your assumption about a political game is generally correct.

The second, more invidious assumption of the opponents of Park 51 concerns what happened in September 2001.

The Changing Face of Global Risk

I'm well aware of the risk.

I'm well aware of the risk.

But that is merely another erroneous (not to mention amoral) assumption.

Economic forecasts rest on the assumption that economies ultimately heal themselves.

This assumption prevents terminating conservation efforts prematurely, even as it underestimates the total number of extinctions.

The recent assassination of former Deputy Prime Minister and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov reinforces this assumption.

This assumption prevents terminating conservation efforts prematurely, even as it underestimates the total number of extinctions.

But it was either risk getting killed by a gun or risk dying of hunger.

Their assumption is that Republicans will back free trade and oppose protectionism.

And the assumption is is that they're related like cousins or whatever.

But recent historians on the Left in India now question this assumption.

Environmental Risk

Sleep deprivation increases risk of heart attacks.

Smokers have an increased risk of miscarriage.

What I'm going to do is look at five categories of experiments, each of which challenges an old assumption of philanthropy.

Yet another theory is that changes in our ways of handling risk have reduced risk premia.

Investment strategies should not be based on the assumption that all times are normal times, and that periodic instability is abnormal. The challenges of assessing systemic risk and the timing of instability are just that challenges, not reasons to ignore the phenomenon.

The world economy is hard wired to the assumption of a strong America, and Americans benefit from this.

Second, banks assumption of excessive investment risks reflects their expectation that governments will bail them out if necessary.

Part of the problem is the deep seated assumption that women are meant to attend to men's needs.

MacArthur attacked concentrated economic power under the assumption that large landholders and large firms become pawns of government.

Dump that far fetched assumption and the cost could jump by a factor of ten or even 100.

But how lazy that assumption seems now, given all that has since happened.

But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey s geo political position.

This sharing of information will reduce risk somewhat.