Sentences with phrase «ludicrous claim»

A "ludicrous claim" refers to an extremely silly or ridiculous statement that is hard to believe or take seriously. Full definition
It is strange that the scammers spend so much money to shoot high production videos with real actors only to make ludicrous claims of a million in a month.
You have no authority in this area and along with Svalgaard have no right to propose such ludicrous claims on such an important naming right.
Fred Pearce, the New Scientist journalist whose reported telephone conversation with an Indian scientist started the melting glaciers story which has been so damaging to the IPCC, is now writing «scoops» for the Guardian at the rate of one every few hours, making ludicrous claims of exclusivity for stories which have been circulating on the net for years.
Among the various other ludicrous claims I've seen come from the gamergate truthers and Sarkeesian bashers is a fear, a deep, unsettling fear: if the Social Justice Warriors win, the games industry will stop making gamer games for gamers!
Instead, I have witnessed attempts to sacrifice the solicitor bar by making such ludicrous claims that the cost of wills is too high ($ 200 versus the $ 40,000 cost of a trial — it is too laugh), or by having a Skype lawyer give a «free» consultation after a computer produces a will thereby eliminating any assessment of capacity or undue influence by the evil child just out of camera range).
The reason the phrase exists is because cults are frauds, and the average person will have doubts about its ludicrous claims.
of course you would («if you can't even believe the historical facts of the setting the Bible presents, how can you believe these ludicrous claims...», etc.).
BUT, it's NOT OK for anyone to provide any kind of counterargument to this ludicrous claim... unless of course, they pu - ssyfoot around and walk on eggshells while they oppose this with the utmost gentle care?
If you did you could not possibly make such a ludicrous claim.
At first his public remarks seemed reasonably controlled and professional, but increasingly he became more strident — making, for example, the ludicrous claim that 50 percent of American priests are living in violation of their vow of celibacy.
The Church and the attorney for Mrs. Miscavige have already responded to this ludicrous claim
Of course, all of this messaging is a crassly manipulative — Republicans are pushing a ludicrous claim (that wishing people «happy holidays» is a nefarious plot to undermine Christmas that will somehow turn America into a godless hellscape overnight).
Sally Hunt, UCU general secretary, criticises government's «hyperbole» and «ludicrous claims» about pension schemes.
Fox News security «expert» Steve Emerson» ludicrous claim that Birmingham was a «Muslim - only city» was rightly ridiculed.
Mandelson's ludicrous claim that Corbyn is «intentionally divisive» isn't supported by ordinary party members, who think Jeremy stands for them in a way that New Labour never did
Clegg said he did not blame Cameron for the loss of the Brexit vote, but said the campaign was «very bloodless and allowed a more emotionally impactful argument in favour of dollops of money for the NHS, and economic utopia, the traffic would flow, the sun would shine, it allowed the other side to make these ludicrous claims... in a relatively unchallenged way».
There have been quite enough circus - like hearings where critics offer up ludicrous claims and defenders mouth trite talking points.
Suffice it to say in the real world the numbers don't even come close to TESLA's ludicrous claims
I see another alarmist post from The Climate Action Tracker claims that temperatures are going to rise by 3C above pre-industrial levels by 2100AD, a ludicrous claim that requires.35 C / decade rate of increase.
A story which claimed Polar Bears were drowning because of global warming was exposed as a fraud in which pictures of summer melt were presented as mid-winter scenes, along with the ludicrous claim that polar bears could not swim to shore to save their own lives.
ARREA also takes a well - aimed swipe at the ludicrous claims by the wind industry that each and every MWh of wind power dispatched to the grid results in the abatement (or reduction) of 1 tonne of CO2 gas in the electricity generation sector.
In today's edition of Bitcoin in Brief, there's all that plus some ludicrous claims from new blockchains.
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