Sentences with phrase «implausible scenarios»

Somehow, the pixelated presentation and indie production values seem to dull the edges enough to make even the most implausible scenarios not only fun, but downright charming to boot.

This is a game of hilariously implausible scenarios: Mario can throw Donkey Kong off a cliff, Animal Crossing's seemingly cute Villager can chop up Yoshi with an ax and Pac - Man can literally devour a Yoga trainer from Nintendo's Wii Fit exercise game.

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.

Given the instability of frontier life and the high death toll, it's not a completely implausible scenario.

It's an implausible scenario in any modern criminal investigation, but in one venerable domain it is often the norm: history.

millions of miles out to the asteroid belt, and then returned in a meteorite, Leshin says that idea is «basically a completely implausible scenario.

While there are hints of humor, given the film's absurd, near - implausible scenario of a fugitive who plays daddy in a broken family home, Reitman is refreshingly not aiming for cheap laughs here, instead opting for the kind of sincerity required to sell the film's central idea about the visceral necessity of family love.

Again, even in this implausible scenario, we still aren't talking about reversing climate change, just stopping it — or, more technically, stopping the temperature rise.

and improvise a wildly implausible scenario that nonetheless turned out to be spot on, saving his client from the gallows.

As I explained in «Life Insurance Guaranteed Values Are a Big Fat Idiot», the columns of guaranteed values in sales illustrations for traditional whole life represent an absurdly implausible scenario.

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I have gone into this scenario into some detail because I think it is extremely unlikely that China can maintain current growth rates except under very implausible assumptions.

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 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.»

Even in a seemingly implausible accidental - release scenario in which all of a well's hydraulic fracturing fluid and untreated wastewater were discharged directly into surface waters for the lifetime of the well, shale - gas electricity had a lower lifetime human toxicity impact, or HTI, than coal electricity, according to the study.

At least part of that scenario was implausible, even outdated, but it captured something of the spirit of two decades in which much has been discovered against considerable odds.

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

It's also where many a would - be awards movie goes to die and vaguely plausible scenarios become implausible realities.

None of those scenarios are inherently implausible, and any of them, or many others that even a hack SF author could dream up, would make great differences in the amount of CO2 emitted (and other environmental effects) between now and 2050.

Is it quite implausible in a warming scenario?

That fact makes alarmist scenarios ever more implausible.

An it's not implausible that regional differences in climate response could result in global cooling, the basis for The Day After Tomorrow scenarios.

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.»

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.

Without such a sense, dire scenarios seem implausible and easy to dismiss.

If the high end scenarios are physically implausible, so much the better.

Could» a, would» a, should» a. Implausible as some scenarios may be, sometimes all it takes to prevail is to plant a fatal seed of doubt.