Sentences with phrase «highly implausible»

So it's «highly implausible» that online sales would grow to 50 % of all sales by 2025, as some have predicted.

The court rejected this argument, finding that it was «highly implausible» that the domain name which linked to a website entitled «Realtor Review» should be read as «real to review».

Let's face it, even if Xiaomi ends up unveiling that highly implausible iPhone X-inspired Mi MIX 2S at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, the odds of seeing any of the Chinese company's inexpensive smartphones officially released stateside in the near future remain slim.

As a result, the judge concluded it was «difficult to determine what the allegations of abuse actually are» and the plaintiff's «description of the events... are highly implausible... [and] do not have a ring of truth».

Based on the statement of the mother, there appeared to very limited opportunity to have committed any of the alleged sexual assaults and more importantly when comparing the circumstances as described by the mother and the complainant, as to the nature of the relationships, the allegations seemed highly implausible.

Of course, not recognizing that it is the same person both times in an in person meeting when they have sex is highly implausible.

But reversal of the overall death spiral is highly implausible absent an even more implausible reversal of current climate policies — policies which are promoted by denier disinformation and sustained by media stenography.

What is new in the present article (for the IPCC crowd) is the point that I made in the earlier Climate Audit post — that the Folland et al schedule for bucket - engine inlet transition was highly implausible and the adjustments used in all IPCC histories are almost certainly incorrect.

[G] iven all the uncertainties and variability in the economic results of the IAMs... the claimed high degree of accuracy in GDP loss projections is highly implausible.

However, simple analysis as above shows it is highly implausible that such mistakes will impact the result.

Transport of heat to the deep ocean in this way seems highly implausible.

It would appear highly implausible to claim that CO2 concentrations will rise by more than 250 ppm in the next 11 years.

That seems highly implausible to me.

Each of these assumptions is highly implausible, based upon my understanding; the combination of these two assumptions into a single scenario seems impossible to me.

Judith, you comment that «Each of [Wadhams»] assumptions is highly implausible, based upon my understanding; the combination of these two assumptions into a single scenario seems impossible to me.»

But where you actually draw the line in terms of what is possible versus highly implausible over a target time range is very important in the context of robust decision making and the identification of possible catastrophes and surprises.

For instance, a posterior distribution based on a uniform prior for an unbounded positive quantity is not valid when (as is always the case) you have reason to think that, past a certain point, large values of the parameter are highly implausible.

But its critics say that's a highly implausible claim.

I do not agree with the proposition that it is so unlikely as to be considered «disproven» (highly implausible).

I agree that it is highly implausible that this gives us an understanding of actual global warming to that precision, only of observed global warming (OGW) as I've defined it in the poster.

That is highly implausible.

The issue that I was analysing was whether Hansen's algorithm was capable of adjusting for inhomogeneity — something that seemed highly implausible.

My criticism of Gavin reply was simply that the temperatures at the time suggest it is not «highly implausible», but because of the observed warming that it was certainly within the realm of possibility.

Given all the independent lines of evidence pointing to average surface warming over the last few decades (satellite measurements, ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, retreating glaciers, phenological changes, shifts in the ranges of temperature - sensitive species), it is highly implausible that it would lead to more than very minor refinements to the current overall picture.

Further suggestions that D / O events in Greenland are generated by shifts in the North Atlantic ocean circulation seem highly implausible, given the weak contribution of the high latitude ocean to the meridional flux of heat.

Basically all the outlet glaciers would have to get into a highly implausible state of utter overdrive and stay there with no slowdowns for the entire century to have Greenland contribute a meter or two (pretty sure I have that basic sketch right).

Where the book fell apart for me was in the highly implausible subject matter of a love affair between a high school student and her teacher, albeit a student teacher, but one who happens to live across the street and be friends with her mom.

Arguably film's most underappreciated male actor, Rockwell accomplishes a last act transformation that would have been highly implausible in other hands.

Highly implausible I hear you say?

Add some terrible directing, highly implausible moments from both films and phoned in performances from all cast members (except 50 Cent because he can't act worth a damn anyway) and you have two of the dumbest films I wasted my time with in 2012.

Ingrid Goes West will make you think twice when you next log into post the latest photo of yourself on whatever social media platform you frequent and thanks to standout performances from its two lead actresses, Spicer's impressive debut film overcomes some highly implausible plot developments to become a memorable and in many ways important musing on our growing dependency to be connected to an often fanciful online world.

Alan Rickman and Heike Makatsch, Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon, Colin Firth and Lucia Moniz, Liam Neeson and Claudia Schiffer — all these match ups felt highly implausible.

However, during the middle courtroom section, things grow increasingly unsubtle — the defense attorney (Johannes Krisch) not only employs an outrageous strategy to create doubt about the guilt of his clients (oddly, there seems to be virtually no media interest in the crime or the trial) but looks like the less attractive cousin of Nosferatu to boot — and go completely off the rails during the highly implausible final section.

There's a simple reason that the plot of Overboard sounds like the sort of over-the-top, highly implausible, downright cruel and unscrupulous stuff you'd see in some wrongheaded comedy from the Eighties.

We also get a zombies - on - a-plane episode and a tense foray into the terrain of «The Stand» or «The Andromeda Strain» in a zombie - infested medical laboratory where Gerry and a buzz - cut, one - handed female Israeli soldier (the terrific Daniella Kertesz) must search for the highly implausible secret MacGuffin that will fix everything.

Many of the experts responded with doubt, some noting that it was highly implausible for humans to acquire something like telepathy through genetic mutations.

This seems highly implausible.

Geneticist Michael Briggs from Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., who specializes in skeletal diseases, says it's «highly implausible» that these variants all have detrimental effects and just happened to occur together by chance.

To many, the idea that any of these parties could be in government in just a couple of months» time is highly implausible.

The pilot of the helicopter that plunged into the East River told cops he believes that a loose tether on one of his passengers» harnesses cut off the fuel switch, law - enforcement sources said, but one expert questioned that scenario, calling it «highly implausible.»

However, this mechanism is a quite slow and it is highly implausible that these politicians are sensible to EU fines against the country.

That ratio strikes me as highly implausible, even taking into account the lengths to which various contending powers went in order to hide the true numbers of losses from their citizenry.

If we identify subjectivity with conscious subjectivity, this is highly implausible.

However, I would add that I have for many years thought the ending of that story to be highly implausible.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

The Fed does not have special information on where the economy is going and I find it highly implausible that its not acting would scare market participants if it explained its decision making.

Not exact matches

We are allegedly trying to buy Lemar a very highly rated young midfielder — and blow me down — the same «negotiating» tactic is being used with the lowest, and most implausible bid offered to start with, which predictably gets refused and is currently creeping up in incremental bands.

Instead, we get the usual clichés (hero doesn't want his friends to join him on his quest but they do anyway, good guys rarely miss their targets while highly trained bad guys can't hit the broad side of a barn) and implausible action set pieces.

«Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll - back of the industrial age,» Lindzen was quoted, offering praise for Christopher C. Horner's Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.

It's like going to see those highly contrived, comically implausible Hollywood movies, or watching those pseudo-spectacular magic shows, in Las Vegas.