The assumption behind this legislation is the idea that having economic activity decentralized among many different industry participants is better for the economy than having one or a few large players in an industry.

A common way out of this argument is not to answer the question ( e. g. with a simple ' yes ' or ' no '), but to challenge the assumption behind the question.

The assumption behind this theory is that syntactic properties of phrases reflect the meanings of the words that head them.

This is the assumption behind feature selection algorithms.

However, as Jean S. Pictet, Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross, noted in 1951, " the law, however, always lags behind charity ; it is tardy in conforming with life ’ s realities and the needs of humankind ," as such it is the duty of the Red Cross " to assist in the widening the scope of law, on the assumption that … law will retain its value ," principally through the revision and expansion of these basic principles of the original Geneva Convention.

Both Brady and Allingham note that the motivations behind the victory lap can be traced to the province's history of a fifth year of secondary school education, making it a basic assumption of secondary school life for students in Ontario.

The fundamental assumption behind the theory is that propositions are composed of two terms – hence the name " two-term theory " or " term logic " – and that the reasoning process is in turn built from propositions:

The key assumption behind all sustainable harvesting models such as MSY is that populations of organisms grow and replace themselves – that is, they are renewable resources.

Fitch, an evangelical, argues that an underlying assumption behind much expository preaching is an individualistic understanding of scripture and an over-reliance upon the expository preacher as the means by which God works in the church.

Prompted by her advisors, she gives the command to attack the UPSF ( under the assumption that they were behind the assassination plot ).

The assumption behind Figure 5 is that the frequency f < sub > 0 dB </ sub > lies between the lowest pole at f < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1 /( 2πτ < sub > 1 </ sub >) and the second pole at f < sub > 2 </ sub > = 1 /( 2πτ < sub > 2 </ sub >).

The cornerstone of defensive tactics in Winchester Football matches for many years has been the assumption that conceding a behind ( 1 point ), is always preferable to a goal ( 3 points ).

The main assumption behind all learning psychology is that the effects of the environment, conditioning, reinforcement, etc.

Linguistic determinism is a partial assumption behind a number of recent developments in rhetoric and literary theory.

The basic assumption behind dense mode is that the multicast packet stream has receivers at most locations.

An assumption behind this model is that women were constrained from certain activities due to decreased mobility resulting from pregnancy and their role in raising young children.

The argument behind this assumption, that men possess greater upper-body strength, was dismissed by Gero, who pointed out physical strength is not an imperative quality in someone skilled at making stone tools.

From his " Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages " of 1940, through his " Dynamo and Virgin Reconsidered " of 1958, to his Medieval Technology and Social Change ( Oxford University Press, 1962 ), his work refuted the assumption that the Middle Ages were too preoccupied with theology and / or chivalry to concern themselves with technology, the assumption behind Henry Adams ' antitheses of Virgin vs. dynamo, but widespread elsewhere as well.

The concept of apperception and the assumption that everyone's thinking is shaped by subjective processes provides the rationale behind the Thematic Apperception Test ( TAT ).

The basic assumption behind the Clinique method is the maintenance of hygiene and cleanliness as the foundation of caring for all skin conditions.

Though it is possible a group is behind the attacks, the prevailing assumption of the investigation and media reports is that one man is behind the crimes.

Patrick Collinson has made a case for Thomas Wood as the editor, and M. A. Simpson has questioned the assumption that there was a single author behind A Brief Discourse who was part of the debates it concerns.

In it, she argues that the traditional musicological assumption of the existence of " purely musical " elements, divorced from culture and meaning, the social and the body, is a conceit used to veil the social and political imperatives of the worldview that produces the classical canon most prized by supposedly objective musicologists.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

According to the conjectural reconstructions of Noel Swerdlow and G. J. Toomer, this was derived from his assumption of a " least perceptible " solar parallax of 7 arc minutes.

Rather than proving the existence of God, Kant was attempting to demonstrate that all moral thought requires the assumption that God exists.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

While the atypical ( second-generation ) antipsychotics were marketed as offering greater efficacy in reducing psychotic symptoms while reducing side effects ( and Extrapyramidal symptoms in particular ) than typical medications, the results showing these effects often lacked robustness, and the assumption was increasingly challenged even as atypical prescriptions were soaring.

Kiernan's reasoning has in part to do with the much-discussed political context of the poem: it has been held by most scholars, until recently, that the poem was composed in the 8th century on the assumption that a poem eliciting sympathy for the Danes could not have been composed by Anglo-Saxons during the Viking Ages of the 9th and 10th centuries, and that the poem celebrates the namesakes of 8th Century Mercian Kings.

Over the later 20th century this assumption was increasingly challenged.

Upon his assumption of the commissioner's role, Selig transferred his ownership interest in the Brewers to his daughter Wendy Selig-Prieb in order to remove any technical conflicts of interest, though it was widely presumed he maintained some hand in team operations.

The existence of problems within NP but outside both P and NP-complete, under that assumption, was established by NP-intermediate | Ladner's theorem.

In 1687 Ancillon was appointed head of the so-called Academie des nobles, the principal educational establishment of the state ; later on, as councillor of embassy, he took part in the negotiations which led to the assumption of the title of " King in Prussia " by the elector.

One example of the fruitfulness of questioning assumptions comes from questioning the assumption that " China was weak in the 19th century " and pointing out the fact that at the time in which China was supposedly weak, it managed to considerably extend its borders in Central Asia.

Hesiod and Stesichorus tell the story according to which after her death Iphigenia was divinised under the name of Hecate, fact which would support the assumption that Artemis Tauropolos had a real ancient alliance with the heroine, who was her priestess in Taurid and her human paragon.

However, a study in Thailand found the cost per malaria case prevented of DDT spraying ($ 1. 87 US ) to be 21 % greater than the cost per case prevented of lambda-cyhalothrin – treated nets ($ 1. 54 US ), at very least casting some doubt on the unexamined assumption that DDT was the most cost-effective measure to use in all cases.

Kraepelin's assumption of a moral defect rather than a positive drive towards crime has also been questioned, as it implies that the moral sense is somehow inborn and unvarying, yet it was known to vary by time and place, and Kraepelin never considered that the moral sense might just be different.

He so vigorously supported Alexander Hamilton's reports on public credit, including the assumption of state debts, and supported Hamilton's new Bank of the United States, that he was considered a leading champion by the Federalists.

Mussolini was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity to carry out a long war with France or the United Kingdom and waited until France was on the verge of imminent collapse and surrender from German invasion before declaring war on France and the United Kingdom on 10 June 1940, on the assumption that the war would be short-lived following France's collapse.

In ancient China, the prevailing belief was that the Earth was flat and square, while the heavens were round, an assumption virtually unquestioned until the introduction of European astronomy in the 17th century.

" Christopher Norris declared that Orwell's " homespun empiricist outlook – his assumption that the truth was just there to be told in a straightforward common-sense way – now seems not merely naive but culpably self-deluding ".

The assumption being that the glass was once uniform, but has flowed to its new shape, which is a property of liquid.