Yet, the weaknesses of such high mindedness (assuming it is high minded) are easily exposed.

Economic forecasts rest on the assumption that economies ultimately heal themselves. But economies powerful self healing capabilities work slowly.

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

If this is Blair s calculation, he is mistaken.

This is because the index is built with the assumption that words go from left to right.

Kaldor s argument was based on the erroneous premise that services were technologically stagnant.

So perhaps the problem with existing regulatory models lies in the assumption that the entire atmosphere is available for unconstrained use. We have an intuitive understanding of the importance of limits when the loss of our sky is articulated in poetic terms.

So perhaps the problem with existing regulatory models lies in the assumption that the entire atmosphere is available for unconstrained use.

It is bad to have fund managers that dump a company s shares if it does not hit its earnings targets for the next quarter.

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

To be taught models that began by assuming that unemployment didn't exist seemed a peculiar place to begin.

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

The special theory of relativity explores the consequences of this invariance of c with the assumption that the laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference.

One problem is that academic models assume that central banks actually know what output and inflation are in real time.

The former, it was claimed, would have lower unit costs than the latter. But the problem here, as always, is with the assumption that Japanese firms would continue to be as efficient as American firms, despite protectionism.

Stock values in the fossil fuel industry which are based on the assumption that companies will be able to extract and burn all known reserves will plummet.

But the problem here, as always, is with the assumption that Japanese firms would continue to be as efficient as American firms, despite protectionism.

The Gospel of Wealth is based on the premise that business competition results in survival of the fittest the fittest being those endowed with the most talent for organization. Carnegie argued that those who thrive in business and acquire huge personal fortunes are better at judging how the world really works, and thus are better qualified to judge where resources should be directed.

The Gospel of Wealth is based on the premise that business competition results in survival of the fittest the fittest being those endowed with the most talent for organization.

All of the major emerging economies face weakening external demand, but India s slowdown has been exacerbated by a drop in investment that reflects a deeper loss of official direction and business confidence. Even the International Monetary Fund s forecast of a modest improvement in 2013 is predicated on the government s ability to breathe life into a spate of stalled economic reforms.

Even the International Monetary Fund s forecast of a modest improvement in 2013 is predicated on the government s ability to breathe life into a spate of stalled economic reforms.

The region s new map was based on the assumption that the fundamentals of Muslim Asia could be transformed by introducing the Western nation state system.

So it's very very very important to take it all with a grain of salt, to remember that it's all based on some simplifying assumption.

Thus, the explosion of CDOs in the United States during the housing boom was predicated upon the shaky assumption that house prices never fall nationwide.

The Oslo Peace Process was built on the premise that moderates on both sides would gradually gain each other's trust and move steadily towards compromise. But this largely ignored the role of extremists.

The Oslo Peace Process was built on the premise that moderates on both sides would gradually gain each other's trust and move steadily towards compromise.

In similar fashion, Working Group II claimed that by 2020, in some African countries, yields from rain fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50 . Much quoted since, this alarming statistic turns out to have been based on a single, unreferenced bullet point from a report by an environmental think tank.

Much quoted since, this alarming statistic turns out to have been based on a single, unreferenced bullet point from a report by an environmental think tank.

That creed led to deregulation, globalization, and financial innovations based on the false assumption that markets tend towards equilibrium.ampnbsp

The mistake, however, is to assume that open societies are more permissive and vulnerable to terrorism than those who live under authoritarian regimes.

There is a third reason why estimates of long run equilibrium with current account balance may be of little predictive value. Do Europe and Japan really want to see the US achieve an external balance?

There is a third reason why estimates of long run equilibrium with current account balance may be of little predictive value.

Yet I support independence only on the assumption that Scotland and the RUK would remain part of a strong and effective EU and NATO.

The 9 11 terrorists second blunder was to believe that their terrorist attacks would inspire irresistible surge in anti Western Islamist extremism. In some parts of the world, radicalization of this sort did take place.

But the adequate servicing of the debt and, therefore, the performance of the securities, were based on expectations of continued rises in housing prices that proved to be unrealistic.

The 9 11 terrorists second blunder was to believe that their terrorist attacks would inspire irresistible surge in anti Western Islamist extremism.

Mental health services around the world are largely based on the assumption that being upset or disoriented is a sort of condition like medical illnesses. Here in Australasia, we imported this perspective from overseas, actively suppressing more holistic Maori and Aboriginal understandings about human distress.

Mental health services around the world are largely based on the assumption that being upset or disoriented is a sort of condition like medical illnesses.

If the instructions inside the function are written with the assumption of receiving an integer value, but the calling code passed a floating point value, then the wrong result will be computed by the invoked function.

1.9.5.2.1 The categorization shall be based on the assumption that in tunnels there are three major dangers which may cause numerous victims and possibly serious damage to the tunnel structure

But, while Bernanke s view is theoretically rigorous, reality is not.

One proposal for voting reform on the Governing Council gives greater weight to the six policymakers at the ECB's center, under the assumption that these officials are less likely to be swayed by national interests. But my experiment indicates that even when voting is limited to these six officials, the policy decisions taken between January 1999 and December 2001 are consistent with outcomes based on differences in regional inflation.

One proposal for voting reform on the Governing Council gives greater weight to the six policymakers at the ECB's center, under the assumption that these officials are less likely to be swayed by national interests.

Investors also need to consider carbon bubbles, the overvaluation of fossil fuel companies based on the assumption that they will be able to continue burning the world s reserves until depletion.

Those that did appear generally seem to be based on the assumption that minor fluctuations in construction costs, not massive market swings, drove the modest home price movements that they noted.