Usually not all of this information is available and conservative assumptions have to be made.

His budget makes conservative assumptions and continues to trim fat.

They said their estimates were based on conservative assumptions about when specific drugs would be open to generic competition.

A 2 percent mortality rate - a relatively conservative assumption - would mean a million deaths.

Many union members had begun to reconsider their conservative assumptions about confrontation and violence.

We did an assessment of its risk, using conservative assumptions, and we've concluded it is safe.

We presented a business plan under very conservative assumptions.

On the conservative assumption that he's earning 3 percent after taxes and inflation, his investment income is about $2 million a day.

They are now using more conservative assumptions, which show that the pension fund is weak and cannot afford the current level of benefits.

He's made a very conservative assumption, which is that you'd have a hundred shots a second at this.