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How to use the word Inference in a Sentence?

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The objects of our studies are buried thousands of kilometers beneath our feet, we use geophysical inference methods to infer the Earth’s internal properties, and caution must be exercised until multi-disciplinary findings confirm our hypotheses and conceptual frameworks.

Hrvoje Tkalcic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The whole of the circumstantial evidence satisfies me that Mr Dawson is dead, that Mr Dawson died on or about 8 January 1982, and that Mr Dawson did not voluntarily abandon Mr Dawson home, i'm satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the only rational inference that the circumstances enable me to draw is that Mr Dawson died or on about 8 January 1982 as the result of a conscious and voluntary act committed by Mr Dawson with the intention of causing Mr Dawson death.

Ian Harrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These statements, as well as those complimenting Stone and Paul Manafort while disparaging Michael Cohen once Michael Cohen chose to cooperate, support the inference that the President intended to communicate a message that witnesses could be rewarded for refusing to provide testimony adverse to the President and disparaged if they chose to cooperate.

Robert Mueller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The eating disorder field has to treat boys and men based on treatment studies that included only females. We have to make this big inference that we are on the mark.

Stuart Murray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should to rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
2 years ago

The macro stakes around the timing are rather low, what is important is the inference that can be drawn about how they are reading the inflation tea leaves. How anxious are they to wrap up their bond-purchase program in a timely manner before they might want to raise the (federal funds) rate? That is why this decision is of more than passing interest.

David Wilcox

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

There is still too much we don't know about this contagion to take anything for granted, we should verify every inference with empirical data. So, first out are those presumed to be at lowest risk -- good health, under age 50 -- and then others back in waves, once it is clear that severe infection rates are as low as projected.

David Katz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I do not see anything in this paper to support this supposition and am concerned that this paper has been published in this journal, there is far too much inference and far too little direct data.

James Wood

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No inference in the chapter is drawn that such people are or could be refugees. The word refugee does not appear in the desertification chapter.

Jim Skea

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Democrats inference that Donald Trump is guilty because Donald Trump does not voluntarily permit Donald Trump deputies to testify hasrankled Republicans, who assert the importance of the presumption of innocence. Joe Biden then knocked Trumps argument that less than half of Americans support Joe Biden removal from office. Hes dumbing down the presidency beyond what I even thought Joe Biden would do, Joe Biden said. We need to restore the integrity of the presidency. Democratic presidential candidates from left, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer stand on stage during a Democratic presidential primary debate Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. ( Associated Press) Later, Democrats largely defended Trumps breakthrough U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which White House passed hours earlier. However, candidatesrailed against Trumps economy, despite multipleindicators that the economy is doing well. The U.S. unemployment rate stands at a half-century low of 3.5 percent, backed by consistently strong job gains in recent months that have largely squelched fears of a recession that had taken hold over the summer. This economy is not working for most of us, the middle class is getting killed, Joe Biden added. Joe Biden said the economy was not.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I'm not going to answer this in the context of any current matters, so you shouldn't draw any inference about it, but the Department of Justice has in the past, when the issue arose, has opined that The President can not be indicted. There's been a lot of speculation in the media about this, I just don't have anything more to say about it.

Rod Rosenstein

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The inference that my now completely public exchange with a hacker Guccifer 2.0 who may or may not be a Russian agent somehow constitutes collusion is not true based on either the facts, on the actual texts which I released, or on the timing.

Roger Stone

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The intelligence agencies pushing this false Russian narrative through a series of illegal hacks have hurt my ability to make a living and are soiling my reputation, the government is in possession of no evidence whatsoever that I colluded with the Russian State. Any inference that my innocuous fully disclosed Twitter exchange and tweets with a hacker known as Gruccifer 2.0 (sic), who may not may not be a Russian asset, constitutes 'collusion' is disproved by the content, the facts and the timeline of events.

Roger Stone

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Given the fact that for much of his life, Donald was financially supporting those politicians -- writing checks to Hillary Clinton, writing checks to Andrew Cuomo -- it is a fair inference that he supports their policies.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The inference that the media stories were a major influence on prescribing trends for bisphosphonates should be treated with caution.

Andrew Grey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market is using every little snippet on Greece to make an inference of the result, markets for now think a deal will be made, but that might be complacent.

Veronika Pechlaner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A lot of people involved in the discussions are keen to keep the tone as positive as they can, the market is using every little snippet on Greece to make an inference of the result. Markets for now think a deal will be made, but that might be complacent.

Veronika Pechlaner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?

Hazlitt

added by anonymous
12 years ago

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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