• If the government persists with it, the powerful military will feel threatened because - as the theory goes - the onslaught will not stop with Mr Musharraf.

    BBC: Pervez Musharraf's doomed homecoming to Pakistan

  • But little evidence has yet emerged that Mr Hu, or indeed the author of the theory, is enough of a risk-taker to push the new theory that far.

    ECONOMIST: Politics in China

  • He has condemned his Republican opponents for what he called "you're on your own economics" and said that the trickle-down theory - that when the rich get richer so does everybody else - "has never worked".

    BBC: 'Make-or-break' for middle class

  • Soccer around Christmas was seen as part of this same sport-as-the-opiate-of-the-people theory.

    WSJ: Gabriele Marcotti: European Soccer's Christmas Vacation

  • If you enter the Jardin des Plantes through the gate nearest to my house you will see a statue overlooking the garden that honours - according to the inscription on the plinthe - the founder of the theory of evolution.

    BBC: Part Three - France and the World

  • This serenity is hard to reconcile with the history of violent smash-ups that the heap-of-rubble theory demands.

    ECONOMIST: Asteroids

  • Over the last two years, as prices have soared, proponents of the Peak Oil theory--which argues that we will soon pass the point of being able to replace reserves as fast as they are consumed--have resurfaced in force.

    FORBES: Really, Really Cheap Oil

  • One reason may be that, as the broken-windows theory suggests, law-abiding folk returned to the streets.

    ECONOMIST: Policing

  • The agreed-upon theory of the panel is that women are, online as off, looking for love.

    FORBES: Who Are We? Women, The Web and Self-(Mis)Representation

  • Researchers are still trying to prove the beta-amyloid theory as the cause of AD.

    FORBES: The Difficulties In Predicting Blockbuster Drugs

  • Today's votes suggest that allegiance to what President Bush has called 'an abstract theory of deterrence' will no longer blind this nation's leaders to emerging threats unanticipated and unaffected by the codification of that theory -- the ABM Treaty.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Kelly Baerwaldt, a fisheries biologist and Asian carp program manager for the Army Corps who supports the alternative-source theory, said the new report didn't change her mind.

    WSJ: Report: Asian carp may have reached Great Lakes

  • The increase in hurricanes over the last decade has prompted some scientists to cite global warming as the cause -- a theory the authors of the 2005 hurricane forecast do not buy.

    CNN: 'Very active' hurricane season forecast

  • She's supposed to be going to the hospital, if she picked up the gifts in their theory -- and placed the box under her bed.

    CNN: Transcript: White House Deputy Counsel Mills' statement

  • Authors Guofo Zhou and Yingzi Zu use some complex math based on the random-walk theory to show that the odds of watching half your liquid net worth evaporate are roughly similar to those of another major life event: death.

    FORBES: We Can't Avoid Another Market Crash

  • Arran has said he would like to solve the Riemann hypothesis - a theory about the patterns of prime numbers which has baffled the greatest mathematicians for 150 years.

    BBC: Arran Fernandez

  • The film presents a sympathetic view of intelligent design - the theory that the universe is too complex to be explained by evolution alone.

    BBC: Yoko Ono

  • And it's a welcome antidote to the theory-drenched obscurantism that passes for art criticism today.

    WSJ: Barnes Collection | Albert C. Barnes | Ensemble: Albert C. Barnes and the Experiment in Education | Saving Dr. Barnes's Vision| By Eric Gibson

  • Wallace, who was born in Monmouthshire and also lived in Neath, was the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection.

    BBC: Alfred Russel Wallace's 19th Century letters go online

  • In cases where the game-theory models say that one would be very unlikely to appear, this new factor pushes the other way, making competition more likely than before.

    ECONOMIST: Preying on theory

  • As Mr Lott says, a chief strand of the game-theory account of predatory pricing relies on the idea that incumbent firms have an advantage over would-be entrants they know more, especially about their own costs, than newcomers do.

    ECONOMIST: Preying on theory

  • In the first half of the 20th century many educated people believed in eugenics--the theory that human beings could be improved if "inferior" people with low IQs were forcibly sterilized (or, in the case of the Nazis, exterminated).

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Science, too, is one step ahead of Professor Meadow and is working on the opposite theory - that in fact the more cot deaths a mother suffers, the more likely it is that she and her babies suffer a genetic condition.

    BBC: Cot death mothers: The witch hunt

  • And with the referees giving the conspiracy-theory crowd a reason to be each and every visit to New York, well, most fans were probably just waiting for the fun to abruptly end at every turn during the reign of Jordan, Pippen, and Jackson.

    FORBES: This Is A Bull Market - Enjoy It

  • Dr Brunton looked at the number of chicks fledged per nest in the colony she was observing and discovered that, contrary to the selfish-herd theory's predictions, pairs breeding near the edge of the colony were more successful than those at its centre.

    ECONOMIST: Animal behaviour

  • So this means that the perceived quality of private-sector loans to the Spanish government would deteriorate - which, in theory, would have the perverse effect of making it harder and more expensive for Spain to borrow from conventional sources.

    BBC: Messy Spanish rescue

  • One important consequence would be that in the next banking crisis, the Bank of England would not - in theory - have to call on the Treasury to put quite so much money into a Royal Bank of Scotland or an HBOS that was facing collapse, because the creditors of those banks would be forced to become shareholders.

    BBC: The cost of making big banks safe

  • His basic principle was the broken-window theory: If you don't fix one window in the building, another will be broken and then another, and eventually the whole block will be lost.

    FORBES: Right Man for Our Times

  • Regardless of the famed odd-lot theory in markets, the recent deal to stop the U.S. from falling over the fiscal cliff last week convinced investors of all stripes to jump in to equities.

    FORBES: Where The Money's Flowing

  • In humans the vocal tract acts as a filter on the sound from the source, and the "source-filter theory" held that the separate, fine control of the vocal tract to be the product of a long evolution in the development of the subtleties of speech.

    BBC: Helium-huffing gibbons 'sing with soprano technique'

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