Sentences with phrase «ludicrous when»

Even the $ 700 price tag isn't so ludicrous when you consider that it comes standard with 128 GB.

While posting marathon finish times on Facebook seems ludicrous when that same plaintiff aspires to establish bed - ridden victimhood, this type of thing happens a fair bit.

This claim of model accuracy is made even more ludicrous when coupled with the fact that over geological periods of time there is little correlation between CO2 and temperature other than a post hoc response where temperature change precedes CO2 change (probably due to chemical and biological response to hotter / colder).

But Donegal applied an 11 - 12 % yield in their 2012 annual report, which seems ludicrous when recent buyers seem perfectly happy with (sub) 6 % Dublin commercial yields.

But it looks ludicrous when held to the ear - a real throw - back to the first mobile phones in the 80s (and Dom Joly's tiresome one - joke sketches).

Its disappointing to term certain nominations as ludicrous when so much good taste and judgement has prevailed all around.

And the plot's problematic pivot point, always on the edge of ludicrous when raised off the page, seems staged with a soft - pedaled reluctance.

«The whole concept of an ethnic German... it's ludicrous when you look at the longue durée [long time] scale,» says archaeologist Aren Maeir of Bar - Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Although it may not seem like it in this crazy transfer window, # 50m is still a lot to spend on any player, and this figure becomes almost ludicrous when you realise you are paying # 50m for Ross Barkley.

Those two sentences are ludicrous when paired together, so I need your help.

We are truly ludicrous when we run behind secular agencies, instead of ahead of them, in the struggle for democracy.

Your argument is simplistic, false on the surface, and downright ludicrous when examined in any detail.

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And then, when they found a way to improve on even that degree of acceleration, they offered a new upgrade: «ludicrous mode.»

It is said that Tesla Motors will be announcing 100D, P100D and P100D with Ludicrous Mode versions, but when that announcement will come is unknown.

The Mail asks when the government will get the message and finally abandon what it calls its ludicrous pledge to shovel 0.7 % of national income into this bottomless foreign pit when our own pensioners are denied vital social care.

The Anti-Defamation League says it's ludicrous to claim Germany's Jews could have stopped the Third Reich with personal firearms when the military might of entire European countries could not.»

Getting rejected when I have over 65 % equity in my home and an excellent credit score is pretty ludicrous.

This is so ludicrous; as I remember when I was a Hasid, I went to my neighborhood female whose services relived myself.

As for the insults, you might wish to skip the hypocrisy when it is you who claimed that without religion there can be no morals, simply power - you insult many by making such a ludicrous claim and you fail to comprehend that there are only 2 billion Christians in this world... does that make the remaining 5 billion immoral?

When Egypt wakes up from their dreams, they will realize how ludicrous they appear before the whole world.

Yes, in particular, it is LUDICROUS that this «god» «chose» an arrogant people in a Middle Eastern desert at a time when there was no internet and when those people thought the world was flat and consisted of the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding lands (i.e., they had NO IDEA about the «New World», Antarctica.

It is simply outrageous, ludicrous, inane and nonsensical to claim that «God» «spoke» to Abraham, Moses, Paul of Tarsus, Mohammad, Joseph Smith, just because those guys «said so»; but when David Berkowitz (Son of Sam), or Andrea Yates (TX killer mother), or various prosti - tute murderers, or (the opinion of most folks) Warren Jeffs, Jim Jones, David Koresh claim that «God» spoke to them, it is considered insanity.

So little by little he succeeds in forgetting it; in the course of years he finds it almost ludicrous, especially when he is in good company with other capable and active men who have a sense and capacity for real life.

The mere fact that god, who supposedly knew that one day global mass communication would be available, decided to appear in an outer province of an empire in a period when communication was mostly by easily garbled oral transmission shows a ludicrous lack of planning.

In truth, he has no answer, because I described this ludicrous ritual perfectly, it just sounds absurd when you call it for what it is.

When multiculturalism becomes a form a hostile separatism with strong culturally conservative aspects, it's ludicrous to assume that the universalist, progressive left should be automatically sympathetic, though I'm afraid some do, or at least did when I was exposed to a fair amount of this nonsense on campus in the 80s and early When multiculturalism becomes a form a hostile separatism with strong culturally conservative aspects, it's ludicrous to assume that the universalist, progressive left should be automatically sympathetic, though I'm afraid some do, or at least did when I was exposed to a fair amount of this nonsense on campus in the 80s and early when I was exposed to a fair amount of this nonsense on campus in the 80s and early 90s.

Science proves that the literal translations can not be true (all of those animals could not fit in the ark)... But instead of those simpleton congregations admitting their beliefs are mistaken, they attack the science that exposes their misleading dogma and make ludicrous statments (dinosaurs didn't exist) when the fact is, science can not prove god does not exist.

I believe the time may come when it will seem ludicrous for men to discover layer after layer of truth which bears all the marks of pattern and design, and then categorically to declare that there is no Designer!

To say that Leicester will be under pressure, when they visit the Emirates is ludicrous!?

Riley is reluctant to get front - and - center in the Shaq story because of rumors that he will replace Stan Van Gundy as coach should the team fail to live up to expectations, rumors that seem ludicrous since it was Riley who turned over the reins to Van Gundy last October and was ecstatic when his longtime assistant turned in a job worthy of coach - of - the - year consideration.

To select that nation to host the 2022 tournament seems ludicrous to many when there were impressive alternative bids from the USA, Australia and Japan.

Yes, but as he is on 110.000 now, I think an increase to 120.000 would still be sensible, but anything more would be ludicrous, when most players of that quality earn 60.000 — 110.000.

Absolutely ludicrous cost in a world of sporting craziness, especially when the cost of season tickets at some of the world's most successful clubs is taken into consideration: Barcelona (# 634), Real Madrid (# 1460), Bayern Munich (# 559), Athletico Madrid (# 963), Borussia Dortmund (# 823), and even Mourinho's Manchester United (# 950).

no wonder wenger has gotten away with his dozen years of failure when fans deliver this kind of ludicrous assessment... get of the wenger juice and get yourself cleaned up... anyway this was a tale of two very different halves so average score is basically like saying the guy who took a bath in ice water and then in scolding water had a good time as on average he was in warm water!!!

There are so many factors when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth and assuming that it's all a straight path from A to B is, well, ludicrous.

Also, it's obviously ludicrous how much money is given to agencies to finalize an adoption when the agency literally does nothing BUT feed both sides the lies they want to hear.

But the idea that a child will suddenly become sociable when put into a group of perhaps twenty other children is frankly ludicrous.

I frankly find it ludicrous to get worked up about the Yankees buying baseball players the Pirates can't afford when nobody is troubled by our buying luxury cars while children literally starve.

I find him ludicrous and persistently out of his depth, even when standing in puddles.

Their decisions do change when the situation reaches a ludicrous point; I was once left with a loan on which I was paying 2 % over base when the base rate was 15 %.

But it would be ludicrous for Dr Cable to sit on his hands when he formulated and presented the policy and higher education represents a third of his departmental budget.

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

«You can not possibly award yourself ludicrous, sky - high bonuses in an industry that has been bailed out by the taxpayer, when those same taxpayers are having to make very serious sacrifices in their own lives,» he said.

He said it was ludicrous, that when he arrests someone he has to be able to tell them why and that there has to be some notion of proportionality.

So when Tories call for bans on foreign languages, label feminism «ludicrous,» or call for single parents to be judged, it's a problem.

«It is utterly ludicrous to expect universities to offer more for less and even more ridiculous to encourage students to complain at a time when it is clear they are getting a raw deal.»

Since when has vetting an appointee in Mr. Gromack's administration become «ludicrous ``?

If you think about that, the campsite metaphors turn ludicrous: why, we may soon wonder, are Labour and Lib Dem lefties sharing their sleeping bags with their parties» respective rightists, when they could unzip, climb out, and get together with people they get on with so much better?

They become less wracked by indecision when facing the classic moral dilemma in which one person must be sacrificed to save many; they reject out of hand what they perceive to be a ludicrous choice.