Sentences with phrase «on ridiculous assumptions»

There will be no way you can do this without layer on ridiculous assumptions and ad hoc «reasoning».

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

But the chance to hone them could be in jeopardy thanks to an asinine bill from a downstate Assembly member who wants to ban air rifle and archery as school sports on the ridiculous assumption that shooting on a school team creates a «gun culture.»

Not exact matches

This is hardly long - term, game - changing oil unless viewed only on a daily production basis with the ridiculous assumption that it will never peak.

The basic assumption with all things Amazon is that we have no choice but to shop or publish with Amazon, an argument that makes its proponents look a little on the ridiculous side.

In a 1926 book entitled «Travel and Travellers in the Middle Ages,» British scholar Arthur P. Newton asserted that the fabricated marvels of the 14th century travel scribe John de Mandeville were themselves a product of contemporary assumptions and desires: «Marvels such as [his] were the common stock in trade of popular medieval writers on geography, and ridiculous though they may be, they should not entirely be neglected in attempting to realize something of the attitude of mind of travelers of the time, half - critical and half credulous, but not wholly different from that of a later age.»

Like a textbook from Southern California Conceptual art heaven, we go from the absurd into the ridiculous on a nightmarish journey fraught with historical omissions, hypocritical assertions, erroneous assumptions, bad curatorial decisions and bad scholarship.

This is a ridiculous assumption to make, however, it may surprise you to know that Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and the European Union have other things to spend their money on than climate change.

If it were not for the enormous sums of money involved, CAGW would have been laughed out of existence long ago as a ridiculous conjecture based on invalid assumptions that disregard water vapor and clouds.

Sure maybe downsizing will occupy the next 20 years but that is dependent on no substantial correction to the market, which long timers all know is a ridiculous assumption.