Not until after the lawsuit had been filed by Nationwide did Zouheil take steps to see that his wife had an interest in the Janke transaction, the inference being that the promissory note was made out to husband and wife only to avoid any judgment in the Nationwide case and not with the intention of making the note community property.

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These are grave moments, akin to another inference in a courtroom with so much at stake.

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In any company, one way to help people succeed in their professional careers (and help the company succeed, by inference) is to have a formal mentoring program.

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In this particular instance, a 1995 law designed to protect securities firms from abusive investor lawsuits says that before the (often expensive) fact-finding period of a case begins, plaintiffs must show a "strong inference" that a company intended to engage in fraud.

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Again, I want to caution against drawing too much in the way of causal inference, but this scatter plot looks a lot like older scatter plots I have done.

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Dr. SHIRLEY BERESFORD (Epidemiology, Washington State University): It would not be an unreasonable inference to say these women had been consuming high levels of fat in their diet for maybe 40 years.

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The clear inference would be that, in any future terrorist attack, the United States would be unlikely to blame it on Iraq if the attack could plausibly be identified as the work of Muslim extremists.

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The raised suspension and 8.7 inches of ground clearance gives the ride that stiffer truck-like inference and more solid sense of handling, particularly in damp conditions, when you want your SUV to handle with a sense of authority.

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Spock, in the film, retains the traits of the archetypal Vulcan, adhering to logic with every conclusion and inference, governing his emotional impulses with stoic alignment and unwilling to break even the most minute rule.

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