heroic assumption

collocation in English

meaningsofheroicandassumption

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heroic
adjective
uk
/hɪˈrəʊ.ɪk/us
/hɪˈroʊ.ɪk/
very brave ...
See more atheroic
assumption
noun
uk
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition ofheroicandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If one is willing to make a somewhatheroicassumptionthat the distribution of policy preferences among parties is the same, one can quantify the difference between the two systems.
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But the fact remains that it is a fairlyheroicassumption.
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We are expected to make theheroicassumptionthat they are not really unemployed.
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All cost accounting is a mixture of convention,heroicassumptionand arbitrary allocation.
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Defining and evaluating 'good government' requires some heroic assumptions.
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The significant point is not so much the forecast itself as the heroic assumptions on which it is based.
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I would be making some even more heroic assumptions if we did not take action in that area.
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That means that some pretty heroic assumptions are being made.
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We are back to extra spending and old-fashioned borrowing, all held together by the fiddles, fudges and heroic assumptions that underline the document presented to us.
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We know that the figures which are quoted depend entirely on truly heroic assumptions which are made as the basis of the highly sophisticated calculations that follow.
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