Many Internet-only banks based their business plans on the assumption of rapid customer recruitment.
These are too large, because they are based on the assumption of a strong economic recovery.
The principal case for this is based on the assumption of a divergence between social and private risks associated with capital flows.
The original Arias Plan and its progeny have all been premised on the assumption of a simple but critical trade: peace for democracy.
After their relentless run, American stockmarket prices are now based on the assumption of juicy earnings growth for several years into the future.
For the most part, these are based on the assumption of stability: that things in the future will be like they were in the past.
Mervyn King, the Bank's chief economist, promised to continue to publish the Bank's forecast of inflation two years ahead based on the assumption of unchanged interest rates.
South Korea has long made its investment and savings plans on the assumption of double-digit interest rates: not since the long boom began in the 1960s has the cost of borrowing fallen below 10%.
National security analysts have to evaluate the risks of the Israel-PLO deal on the conservative assumption of continued hostility and increasing Islamist political power.
By 1985, when the price of oil collapsed into the single digit range, the WPT was collecting no money at all for the federal government due to the fact that its structure was based on the assumption that the price of oil would always rise.
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If the whole mission of Techonomy is based on the assumption that technology today lies at the heart of economic progress, it seems fair to ask: Does it really?
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The working assumption on the part of the banks is that only a small percentage of depositors will ever redeem their monies at any one time.
Although no formal guidance has yet been issued by the White House budget office concerning how agencies should prepare, if Congress fails to act by August then the administration will have to formulate its future budget proposals on the assumption that the sequestration provisions of the law actually take effect.
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The final economic impact of the law is going to be based on whose assumption is closer to the actual reactions of both individuals and businesses to full implementation of Obamacare.
The differences were not weighted by population size, based on the assumption that differences in the distribution of resources matter regardless of the size of the population.
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The panel's report also raised profound concerns about the conduct of the original inquest into the deaths, held in 1991, which operated on the assumption that all the deaths occurred within 15 minutes of the crush.
Mr Pinochet is in his present pickle not because Chile has broken its promise to him but because the general made the mistake of swanning around the world on what turns out to have been the false assumption that the decision of Chile's polity binds the rest of the world's courts.
Ironically, given that he first won over so many independents by speaking his mind, the case for Mr McCain comes down to a piece of artifice: vote for him on the assumption that he does not believe a word of what he has been saying.
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But there is something more profound going on here than just the assumption of hardline positions.
Both parties seem to have proceeded on their assumption of the vitality of a one-person partnership, which we conclude cannot exist under California law.
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Those moves by borrowers are hurting investors who bought bonds on the assumption that the pace of refinancing and repayments would be much slower.
In the 1980s, the political and academic consensus emphasised the rehabilitation of young offenders, on the assumption that strongly punitive measures tended only to turn them into hardened criminals.
As I understand it, Austrians consider this deceptive because individuals and firms that make long-range plans on the assumption that the value of money will be stable are harmed by the resulting decline of the dollar.
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Here's the key: When the grantor sets up the trust, the IRSfixes the value of his gift based on the assumption that the trust will earn a modest return--about 7.5%, but the IRS-set rate fluctuates with interest rates.
When Ehud Olmert, Israel's previous prime minister, embarked on direct negotiations with the Palestinians, settlement construction was concentrated within or close to the likely borders of Jewish territory, on the assumption that other land would be evacuated.
"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.
Well, it matters because the government wants to spend billions of pounds on roads, based on the assumption that there will be a 44% rise in traffic levels by 2035, mainly because of a big rise in the population.
And this beneficial outcome follows, remember, on the extreme assumption that voters act not out of concern for the greater good, but out of pure self-interest.
Germany's de facto loans to these banks is equivalent to around 30% of its GDP (this figure is based on the assumption that, in a worst case of a eurozone breakup, Germany was unable to share the cost with other eurozone members on the basis of an official burden-sharing formula).
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