That someone counted on a superstitious dread ascribing the deed to the spirit of Nofret--a singularly convenient assumption.

A student of Henri Bergson and Emile Durkheim, Simiand advanced a view of economics as a social science grounded in observable phenomena rather than convenient assumptions.

Men often believe-or pretend-that the "Law" is something sacred, or at least a science-an unfounded assumption very convenient to governments.

They relate to the validity of the often convenient assumption that the statistical properties of any one part of an overall dataset are the same as any other part.

Contrary to the convenient assumptions of mainstream economists, significant external effects are in fact pervasive in modern market economies.

In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption, which has only recently run up against its limitations.

Non-satiation in this sense is not a necessary but a convenient assumption.

Or were you just dividing the forecast value of the entire wind energy industry by the forecast number of turbines to be built in the next 20 years, with a few convenient assumptions about how they weren't all built in China?

The point of all this is, I had to make a few convenient assumptions not central to the primary thrust of the novel; otherwise the basic idea is not nearly so interesting.

Although this base of hypotheses is large enough that I've had to pick convenient assumptions when offered a choice, I have made every effort to play fair with the established rules.