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But supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that as ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them, capable, at will, of distension or contraction; and as the Sperm Whale, as far as I know, has no such provision in him; considering, too, the otherwise inexplicable manner in which he now depresses his head altogether beneath the surface, and anon swims with it high elevated out of the water; considering the unobstructed elasticity of its envelop; considering the unique interior of his head; it has hypothetically occurred to me, I say, that those mystical lung-celled honeycombs there may possibly have some hitherto unknown and unsuspected connexion with the outer air, so as to be susceptible to atmospheric distension and contraction.

Grose looked straight out of the window, but I felt that, hypothetically, I had a right to know what young persons engaged for Bly were expected to do.

In a generalized sense, all the intrinsic laws of change of appearance may be called "laws of perspective." Given any appearance of an object, we can construct hypothetically a certain system of appearances to which the appearance in question would belong if the laws of perspective alone were concerned.

He may ask where are the remains of those infinitely numerous organisms which must have existed long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited: I can answer this latter question only hypothetically, by saying that as far as we can see, where our oceans now extend they have for an enormous period extended, and where our oscillating continents now stand they have stood ever since the Silurian epoch; but that long before that period, the world may have presented a wholly different aspect; and that the older continents, formed of formations older than any known to us, may now all be in a metamorphosed condition, or may lie buried under the ocean.

He really believed in the spiritual advantages, and meant that his life henceforth should be the more devoted because of those later sins which he represented to himself as hypothetic, praying hypothetically for their pardon:--"if I have herein transgressed."

Fein points out that Amarin could not hypothetically sue AstraZeneca for patent infringement until Epanova was made, used, or sold in a commercial context.

The chemical would then hypothetically be used in cars to convert light energy, captured by a melanin coating, to electrical energy that can power the car's battery.

"Hypothetically if I give myself another 10 years that's 40 majors," Woods said ahead of today's start of the US Open at Pebble Beach, where in 2000 he won by an incredible 15 shots.

For instance, hypothetically, without bearing prejudice, an elected member if he is from PML-N cannot abstain from a critical meeting, or in a meeting where the vote is being decided to elect a chief minister, or even a prime minister.

Lastly, Abunda asked hypothetically whether De Guzman would have a chance if he courted Imperial.

The former American football star shocked Fox viewers when he hypothetically confessed to murdering his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron in a previously scrapped interview.