The figures are based on an assumption that council tax will rise by 2.5%.
Of course I'm working on an assumption that I even have a doppelganger.
But, again, the question is based on an assumption about a decision that the Supreme Court has not made.
The commission's forecast of a deficit of 2.7% this year is based on an assumption that Germany's economy grows by 0.75%, which may well prove optimistic.
He also escaped censure for insisting in May 1990 that beef was safe to eat, because he qualified his statement by saying it was based on an assumption that the ban on high-risk tissue entering the food chain was in place and being enforced.
If you're operating on such an assumption, and if the source of that assumption is faulty, then it's probably time you contemplated how you make decisions.
But that is an assumption on which it would be dangerous to rely: the ECB has neither the mandate nor, perhaps, the resources to do so.
Britain will be in the red until at least 2016 - and that's an assumption made on very optimistic forecasts.
Or is that an assumption based on the pattern of previous nominees?
It would seem obvious that for consumers, mutual companies should come out ahead, but Cahill goes too far in making such an assumption based on his limited comparison.
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But his readiness for a new election is based on an apparently well-founded assumption that Welfare will improve on the 21.5% of the vote it won at the previous election, in 1995.
You can work out default expectations by looking at the spreads on speculative bonds and making an assumption about the amount investors will recover from companies that fail to pay up in full.
"SASCOC, like the rest of the public, knows no more than what is in the public domain, which is there has been an alleged fatal shooting on the basis of a mistaken identity and an apparent assumption of a burglary, " the South African Olympic committee said.
Many folks argue for the notion of an innovation organizational strategy, on the assumption that organizational changes will drive innovation.
It would have been crazy to make an investment decision in 2008 on the assumption that the dollar would have the same value in 2012.
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Beyond tapping Reed as an interim chairman, the assumption on the NYSE board is that they must engage in a nationwide comprehensive search to replace a man like Grasso with another "world-class" executive.
Bloomberg's insistence on dictating consumer choices has a more direct connection to an assumption that government should control our access to health care than obesity has to a couple of Big Gulps.
The assumption is that a customer who relies on an operator for all three of those services will be unlikely to change over one--much less all--of them to another provider, and that by the time Verizon's ready to offer TV, all the available customers will be locked in.
We tempered their numbers with an assumption of increased competition and the likelihood of government pressure on their pricing.
Such an assumption is akin to claiming that a television set left on and unattended will still be in working condition after a million years because no natural events, such as rust, erosion, static electricity, and earthquakes can affect it.
And a large chunk of those purported benefits rest on the assumption that businessmen are unproductive while in transit, which seems questionable in an age of laptops and mobile broadband.
The thing that trips you up, and certainly tripped up Bush, is the assumption that, if you win, somehow you can then embark on an agenda that is wholly different from the one you campaigned on.
Typically, they fall back on the traditional assumption that anyone who buys Credit Default Swaps, stocks or bonds has an exclusively economic motive.
Furthermore, the assumption that airline passengers would be willing to pay higher fares to travel on an airline because it has a higher priority is simply not realistic.
Then assuming that your assumption about what happens to V gives you an assumption about what happens to MV (total spending), what happens on the other side of the equation?
My first assumption was that there was an electrical fault, but as the time settled on 5 minutes past one, I suddenly realised that it was "'clocks going back time" ...and I would have to sit through that whole hour again!
The 80% figure is an aggregate, allowing individual countries to fall short of the objective, but only on the questionable assumption that others will exceed it.
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