Sentences with phrase «not absurd»

This could all just be very conveniently timed with the Beat acquisition, but it's not absurd to suggest that this could be an indication of what an Apple / Beats collaborated pair of headphone might end up looking like.

If a nanny (an employee) is injured, the hypothetical is not absurd.

Certainly it produces a climate that is not absurd.

It is only sensible that we should do so, and if we do, and if in particular we reach the conclusion that they should use the methodology implied in the impact assessment and not the absurd methods used by Sir Nicholas Stern, now Lord Stern — he received his reward — they would reach a conclusion very similar to that advocated by the hon. Gentleman on Second Reading: that we should put far more emphasis on adaptation to helping poor countries cope with climate change, rather than on crippling our industries — aviation, shipping and all the other industries — to little avail.

The idea that global warming is natural is not an absurd question.

The subject is not absurd, just the present practice.

The results of error propagation are not absurd errors, but non-absurd uncertainties.

That a connection between solar cycle length and sea ice extent * could exist * — which is about what I take them to have shown — is not absurd, and might be worth examining.

The total biosphere including soil carbon is about 2000 Gt C, so it's not absurd to imagine growing it to 2300 Gt C.

[Response: Not an absurd question, but in practice net geothermal heating (including volcanoes, mid ocean ridges etc) is about 0.075 W / m2 — some 20 times less important than human CO2 increases.

Doesn't this make the PC not an absurd destination for PS Now, but an obvious one?

The difference, of course, is that — unlike the authors of the UNL paper, Pimentel, ABC, and so many others — I'm not presenting my numbers as if they're not absurd.

Earning 3 % real returns is possible, and not that absurd, but it is a little on the high side unless you like holding 77 % in stocks and 23 % in 10 - year high - quality bonds, and can bear with the volatility.

But that's not absurd; it's a simple recognition that an e-publisher that doesn't make authors successful isn't a sufficient stepping stone on the way to a career in writing to justify spending member resources on them.

Not an absurd amount for a three - row crossover, but the Durango is missing out on features that many models feature such as adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, and compatibility for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.

Out of curiosity, what is not an absurd price for this (in light of prices of comparable cars from other manufacturers), please justify your answer.

Is it not absurd to speak about global citizenship in contexts where people do not perceive themselves as belonging to groups such as school and community, can not locate their communities in the city, and are not aware they have rights and duties as national citizens?

As Einstein said, «If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.»

«Hall Pass» attempts to take the Farrellys» harsh humor and bring it into harmony with what has become the modern comic style, which is to be coarse but not absurd, to be brutally honest but real.

I mean, is it not absurd, if another strong indicator of the importance MEIFF is aspiring to, for a festival in only its third year to be handing out lifetime achievement awards, moreover when that award is being handed out by Hilary Swank, flown into Abu Dhabi for that purpose alone (or... was it perhaps to run a little interference against the imminent Doha festival, shortly to launch itself with Mira Nair's Swank - starring Amelia?).

It is not absurd to imagine him as a party leader anymore.

# 1 is not absurd.

Is it not absurd that we have to argue about his best playing position on every Arsenal article.

They need to happen, like, yesterday, but they're not absurd.

one one, it's not an absurd proposition at all, it is called free will and it is described perfectly in the scripture CE posted.

Determinism conflicts with the common sense understanding of time and is to be rejected on that ground, but determinism is not absurd.

Determinist theory may be wrong, but it is not absurd.

As it happens, I also stumbled across this piece by First Things blogger Peter Leithart on Lear's moral universe, in which he makes the case that Lear is not an absurd tragedy, but a drama of sin, justice, and grace in a broken world.

I too have felt the machinery of Christianity, its rituals and teachings and habits of mind, remote from the way I lead my life and, in that sense, if not absurd, then certainly useless, because I didn't (and still often don't) use it to guide and govern my life.

It has to do with a quality, discernible in that human character, which confronts us with a claim to our worship: in response to which it is not absurd, as it would be in the case of other men, to exclaim «My Lord and my God».

«Was all this not absurd?»

She was not apparently bad in her role (in the Quora interview, Justine Musk describes her an «exceptional and devoted employee» who «gave her life to the job»), but after twelve years on the job, she probably felt like a raise was not an absurd request.

A language that unites divine and human does need to be carefully worked out, but the question is certainly not absurd or unintelligible.

And a few lines farther down, in reply to an objection he has posed to himself, Aristotle responds: «It is not absurd that the actualization of one thing should be in another.

If, as Stoics like Aunt Emily believe, he has simply been reabsorbed into the circumambient nothingness, why is human life not absurd and worthless?

Not absurd at all.

What is not absurd is that the Fed has been the largest single buyer of Treasuries in recent years.

As Einstein said, «If at first the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.»

Asking for 12 months» free rent is not absurd.»

The film ultimately fails, either because the premise is too absurd, or the execution isn't absurd enough.

It's a moment as surprising as it is funny (her notion of what is and what isn't absurd is the definition of absurd itself).

Ask for above what you want and negotiate down to what you do want (as long as it isn't absurd).

This isn't a loot - heavy game so there isn't an absurd amount of stuff to collect, but what is there is satisfying.

A time when playing the single player and only having single player wasn't absurd, but the norm.

Not exact matches

Speaking by phone from Detroit, Eight Mile Style publisher Joel Martin said he'd been infuriated during the trial by the defense's absurd contention that «Lose Yourself» wasn't original because it used the same chords as other songs.

The number of startups that raise a lot of money, blow through it and then fail because they can't raise additional money is absurd.

This is one of the most absurd ways to pay an adviser, because it simply doesn't make sense, it's costly, and can create conflicts of interest.

Yet, after testing the Utopia for the past couple of weeks, that price doesn't feel completely absurd.

If not, the idea that you'll be wealthy and successful someday can seem almost absurd at times.

Seamless and its sister app GrubHub are also in San Francisco, but many delivery places don't work with those apps, and if they do, they charge you an absurd minimum before you can even place an order.