Sentences with phrase «implausible in»

The interview also spoke to an American HR specialist and former CEO, who thought the idea was implausible in the U.S., largely because of the technological constraints which tie employees to the office, even when they have physically left.

However that consensus view increasingly became implausible in my mind as I watched what the planet was actually doing from around 2000.

All naturally occurring buffered systems that I'm familiar with possess this characteristic and given that this planet has seen significantly higher CO2 levels, I find it implausible in the extreme that the capacity is not there to deal with the rising levels we see now.

Is it quite implausible in a warming scenario?

I did not say, and do not believe, that «no weather event can on its own be taken as a an indicator of climate change», and in particular hold that hurricane Sandy, mere category 1 that it was, was in fact in its details an event that would be quite implausible in the baseline climate.

While an unidentified source of this type could I suppose be considered a theoretical possibility, it is not only implausible in the absence of evidence, but also unnecessary in the presence of strong evidence for the human role at the extent deducible from the multiple lines of evidence available.

They do not only mismatch the other data sets but are implausible in themselves, in requiring huge sea level jumps over short time periods.

I suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.

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

What was implausible in the older film becomes absurd to the point of insult in this way - over-the-top action comedy that fills up screen time with noise and slapstick whenever it has no idea where to go.

Arnold was reportedly inspired by a New York Times article about groups of young people who travel the country selling magazine subscriptions door - to - door, in part because that sounds so utterly implausible in today's world.

Also, the initial premise, so self - consciously silly in 1987, seems even more implausible in the internet age.

Eating like Kim Kardashian West is a testament to your willpower and discipline, but, according to Editorial Director Faith Xue, implausible in the long run.

This scenario was found to be implausible in our section 5.3.

Further, the claim itself seems to me to be implausible in the extreme.

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The social network's co-founder Dustin Moskovitz pledged to donate $ 20 million to help ensure a Clinton victory because, as he put it, Trump's «proposals are so implausible that the nation is forced to worry that his interest in the presidency might not even extend beyond winning a contest and promoting his personal brand.»

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

As I have argued before, except under implausible scenarios (at least 2 - 4 % of GDP transferred every year from the state to households) I can not work out arithmetically any meaningful rebalancing process that is consistent with average GDP growth much above 3 - 4 % during President Xi's 2013 - 23 term in office.

I will the try to list every logically possible outcome, even those that seem obvious or obviously implausible, to show how flexible this framework and how useful in allowing us to evaluate policymaking:

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.

Taking account of all this, share prices seem to assume there will be an implausible rate of growth in profits.

In fact, if something is implausible it can't qualify as a theory.

Too often in Jewish - Christian exchanges, Jews play the Holocaust as trump, and Christians, on cue, engage in unseemly and implausible rites of self - denigration.

At the same time, it is also implausible that the entire language should be entertained in dominant occasions at a single moment.

Plausibility, of course, is in the ear of the hearer, and no doubt many people do find such hypotheses implausible.

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.

It is not implausible to believe that after preaching in Gundaphar's kingdom in the North, Thomas moved on as all traditions affirm, to preach the Gospel to other kingdoms as well, the kingdoms of south western and south eastern India, until at last he was put to death, perhaps near Madras.

Now, could it possibly be that the reason the answer is out of reach is because the bible was written by numerous, imperfect human beings, under the influence of their own religious biases, and all those writings have been complied, hundreds of years later, by men of equal imperfectness and religious biases, so as to render any logical discussion about what the hell was their intention in writing what the wrote, completely implausible?

Neither the White House nor the Congress seems interested in, or capable of, articulating such a doctrine, and it is not likely to come from a forum of formers who are reading from scripts that in the present political culture are, if intelligible at all, thoroughly implausible.

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.

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..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..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..in this country and, as a....

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.

This rather implausible result is made possible, Whitehead thinks, because we perceive in the modes both of causal efficacy and of presentational immediacy.

In short, nothing in history of human endeavor can make otherwise smart, functioning people believe the most implausible of supernatural absurdities the way religion caIn short, nothing in history of human endeavor can make otherwise smart, functioning people believe the most implausible of supernatural absurdities the way religion cain history of human endeavor can make otherwise smart, functioning people believe the most implausible of supernatural absurdities the way religion can.

So in speaking to the majority, this forces supporters of cutting taxes on high - earners to make implausible promises about the wonderful indirect effect benefits most people will get when taxes are cut on somebody else.

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.

What remains intuitively implausible to some critics is that God could experience any value from an immoral situation in which finite creatures found some value.

While LaHeye and Jenkins took that concept in a fantastical and often implausible direction with Left Behind, Perotta plays the whole thing much straighter.

The supine acceptance by many churches of no fault divorce makes the «I have become a Christian so it is all different now» defense appear implausible, even if it is actually true in specific cases.

When these steps have been taken, we shall be freed from being driven to the construction of implausible just - so stories, alleging that human capacities of which we have basic experience are totally different in character from what we, in fact, know them to be.

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).

In a sense the answer to this question will respond to our own inquiry as to why teleological thinking seems so implausible today.

In their eagerness to highlight and address the inevitable contacts between religion and government, and to move beyond implausible, distorted versions of church - state «separation,» Eisgruber and Sager abandon too much.

He added that «given the presumably strong role of situational, long - term, environmental, social and personal factors that figure in behaving aggressively, it would be implausible to expect more than this clearly modest relationship.

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.

16 But, in any event, the notion that beings imperfect in knowledge could inspect all parts of the universe is implausible at best.

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.

Victory over Israel will lift Wales to the implausible heights of fourth in the world, and they could climb as high as second.

It does seem biologically implausible that a very low intake of alcohol could cause FAS, because it seems very rare in women who have had low alcohol intake in pregnancy.