Sentences with phrase «implausible for»

Before Steam Machines, such rumors were few and far in between and gained little to no traction, as such an upgrade was practically implausible for how it would disrupt the console cycle.

Brandon Shollenberger must admit that these two possibilities are quite implausible for our case, so his counter-argument, albeit ingenious, is only academic and applies only to a version of my argument which could easily modified.

These are good first - week numbers for many video games, and they're implausible for a medium - sized unbiased studio like 11 - bit....

Before Steam Machines, such rumors were few and far in between and gained little to no traction, as such an upgrade was practically implausible for how it would disrupt the console cycle.

When I read the query letter, I was struck by how amateurish it was (though not implausible for a beginning writer to try).

It would be implausible for anyone to constantly look up words or simple multiplications — it just takes too long and breaks the thought process, very inefficiently.

I submit that it's implausible for him to have written this (unless Logan made his own pilgrimage to the desert to discover his true self).

It would seem implausible for a moviegoer not to connect with someone in the film.

Even if exceptional humans were found as low as 700 cc, it is still implausible for Lubenow to claim (p. 162) that ER 1470, at 750 - 775 cc, is «well within the normal human range».

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

But it's just as implausible for them to have emerged simultaneously out of a prebiotic soup.

But a major influence from legalized abortion on the New York City difference is particularly implausible for three further reasons: First, what separates New York from other cities is a decline from 2000 to 2007.

The suggestion that Bilic also felt Iheanacho was not sufficiently proven is implausible for the exact same reasons but it also speaks volumes about his mindset with regard to young players.

The hop, step and jump boys were clearly too remarkable to miss but, the camera seemed to think, too implausible for attentive study; so they made their screen appearances (and disappearances) with the impromptu of interloping kangaroos.

Accordingly, when Griffin contends that it is implausible for FWTs to believe «that every basic structural aspect of the world can be justified as necessary to the promotion of creatures with moral and spiritual qualities» (ER 16), he is attacking a straw man.

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In that context, for Chrome to catch and surpass IE within the four years since its 2008 release is almost completely implausible.

This could be the fate of the Trump programme given its design errors, implausible assumptions and reckless disregard for global economics.

Higher growth rates are not impossible, of course, but to get the arithmetic to work for me it would take some fairly implausible assumptions — mainly that Beijing engineers the transfer of 2 - 3 % of GDP every year from the state sector to the household sector — for China to achieve growth rates anywhere near 6 % for the next decade.

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.

This is a very unlikely possibility, for it is implausible to think that radically new evidence will emerge, or that a significantly new reordering of current data will be advanced.

It seemed, for instance, implausible that Nava would have actually received the 250 responses to his «Latex Lies» op / ed that he claimed.

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

For better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishmeFor better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishmefor instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishment.

Religions of today, at least the Western ones I am most familiar with, seem to hold on to the old stories without understanding their original dynamic value and rather look to them for creating rules and reconstructing an ever more implausible history.

One who does not believe in God, for example, may find the existence of free, nonhuman, immaterial persons such as Satan quite implausible; one who already believes in the existence of at least one such free, nonhuman, immaterial person — i.e., God — may find it much less implausible.

Certainly, it is possible for him to come to regret his actions later, but it is implausible to suppose that at this later time injustice would then supervene.

Its controlling metaphors of «the man at the giant switchboard» and «the man in the cloverleaf,» which were meant to symbolize the communication grid and the mobility network of the modern metropolis, seemed implausible to people who had been denied both mobility and communication, and for whom the city was often not a place of expanded freedom but the site of more sophisticated humiliations.

The Vanishing American Jew: in Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz Little, Brown, 395 pages, $ 24.95 In Chutzpah, his 1991 best - seller, Alan Dershowitz made the wildly implausible claim that American Jews still don't feel fully at home in this country and, as a....

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote: «All the plausible and implausible proofs for the immortality of the soul are efforts on the part of the human mind to master and to control the consummation of life.

Ottaviani's approach to theology was neatly summarized in the Latin motto of his cardinalatial coat of arms, Semper Idem [Always the Same], and his fierce defense of what he understood to be orthodoxy made him a not - implausible model for the character of Cardinal Leone in Morris West's novel The Shoes of the Fisherman.

However, for reasons I will soon share, I deny that any of this necessarily supports Griffin's claim that the FWT can not successfully counter the contention that her theodicy is implausible, or even less plausible than the process theodicy.

One can imagine few more wrong headed, implausible and self - defeating strategies than for the several million Muslims in America to join with alienated blacks in blaming their problems on the consequences of slavery and segregation.

Such self - congratulation makes for smug, implausible, bad TV.

That verse suggests the creatues on - board the ark would have needed to eat, so food was brought on - board for them, which only makes the story even more implausible, since not only would the ark have needed to house all those animals for about a year according to the Priestly Source version, but also food for them as well.

It is not implausible, accordingly, to account for the major sources of natural evil by appeal to creaturely freedom (along with, of course, other metaphysical principles).

There is indeed no good reason to doubt their origin (in approximately if not precisely this same form) in the very historical episode itself; nor is Miriam's role as in some sense leader and conductor of the spontaneous demonstration in any way implausible (compare, for example, the Song of Deborah in Judges 5).

Imagine the ipse dixits that passed for legal reasoning in this case, and you will grasp the unsatisfactory character of an opinion that closes down discussion on the implausible fear that critical thinking about the origins of life in the universe is unconstitutional.

I do know some of the arguments for why the flood is scientifically implausible, but I think there are alternative explanations for where all the water came from (and where it is today) that might make it more plausible.

I'm sure there is a possible, if implausible explanation for each of those inconsistencies... but as you start to stack implausibilities, the likelihood increases that it's a much simpler explanation, i.e. either a huge exaggeration or outright fabrication.

This is where the story becomes so implausible that one day it will almost certainly become the basis for a network television show.

To limit reporting errors, we calculated the z score of weight for age using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reference and considered z scores of 5 or greater or − 5 or less as biologically implausible.22

At the time SDI proposals were openly being discredited in international science journals as completely implausible given that very effective counter measures could be deployed for a fraction of the cost amongst other reason.

One a hideous weapon that is specifically intended for assassination, the other an implausible theatrical prop with a mysterious buzz.

The departure of Hope Hicks, arguably the least experienced person to ever hold the job of White House communications director, capped an astounding rise for a political neophyte whose seemingly implausible career hinged on a deep understanding of, and bottomless patience for, her mercurial charge.

Accepting the failures of his leadership as his alone against a tide of media hostility and so on, and not of his message and policies — not a wholly implausible argument for those inclined to believe — would give the left's next candidate a much clearer run, a sympathetic hearing and a wave of righteous indignation to ride.

Thinking they could demand his head as the price of a deal was anyway always a bit implausible: Britain could not be left in limbo waiting for a government while the Lib Dems spent six weeks or so choosing a new leader.

But it seems implausible that they have done so in sufficient numbers to account for Corbyn's popularity, let alone to skew the result of the election.

The simple truth is that UKIP is an implausible party with a reputation for red - faced buffoonery.

«With the tax - cap, to ask for a larger percent on raises is implausible,» he said, and added that comparable salaries in Ulster County place Onteora somewhere in the middle.

«It is therefore, impossible and implausible, for any monies under such presidential directives to be diverted during the process, at least from the standpoint of the Minister.