Sentences with phrase «seem implausible»

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

It would seem an implausible conspiracy: take years to come up with a convincing theory with supporting evidence and then spend a lot of time and effort getting it into a difficult journal and stopping by every now and then to invite the critics to help identify the flaws.

The instantaneous aspects in ALL mechanisms required by the comparison are locked in and seem implausible on a global scale.

Asked about valuations that put the collection in the billions, he said, «It doesn't seem implausible.»

Given that they are guiding to produce 500k cars per year, this does not seem implausible.

It may seem implausible that stocks could have gone this long with near - zero returns, and yet still be at valuations where other secular bear markets have started — but that is the unfortunate result of the extreme valuations that stocks achieved in 2000.

This blending of fiction and reality is jarring on occasion, oddly devising overtly theatrical instances along the way that just seem implausible.

It would seem implausible for a moviegoer not to connect with someone in the film.

For the more naive or lonely, it doesn't seem implausible to have strong affection for someone they've never met.

Linking a soft - bodied terrestrial animal with a marine fossil that lived more than 500 million years earlier may seem an implausible notion.

It may seem implausible that fetuses can listen to speech within the womb, but the sound - processing parts of their brain become active in the last trimester of pregnancy, and sound carries fairly well through the mother's abdomen.

Radical utopias are out of fashion in the 21st century, but if they ever do reemerge, I suspect it will be thanks to the open - ended nature of software, because virtual communities can serve as a proof of concept for ideas that might seem implausible were they merely described on paper.

But to many people this must seem an implausible proposition.

It does seem implausible that something so big (a six - or seven - plus - pound watermelon) could squeeze through such a little space, but that's exactly what happens most of the time.

His totals of 313 strikeouts and 37 walks seem implausible by any manner of achievement other than by joystick.

And it must undertake some response to the ways of thought that make the notion of revelation seem implausible or pointless to other contemporary theologians.

Seems implausible.

This seems implausible.

However, his answer seems implausible and evasive once the claim has been advanced that experiencing is macroscopically spacy.

Its controlling metaphors of «the man at the giant switchboard» and «the man in the cloverleaf,» which were meant to symbolize the communication grid and the mobility network of the modern metropolis, seemed implausible to people who had been denied both mobility and communication, and for whom the city was often not a place of expanded freedom but the site of more sophisticated humiliations.

I hate to sound like a Saint fan but that seems implausible.

The belief that the party was on the verge of winning an election seemed implausible.

That seems implausible, MPs on the Commons» science and technology committee were told.

The finding at first seems implausible.

But it seems implausible that they have done so in sufficient numbers to account for Corbyn's popularity, let alone to skew the result of the election.

But that calculation seemed implausible, so the researchers derived a better explanation: a potatolike shape, reported in the 9 October issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Although this idea seems implausible, it is one interpretation of the discovery that there is a pattern in the red shifts of nearly a hundred galaxies out to a distance of about 50 megaparsecs (more than 160 million light years) from our own.

It seems implausible that we would miss their call.

Other explanations, such as a more virulent strain or changes in land use, agriculture, or animal health systems, seemed implausible, they said, and the disease had struck primarily in those areas that had heated up the most.

But this now seems implausible - these days we accept that evolution is blind.

It seems implausible that the increased visibility of role models alone will stir many of us from our seats.

«It seems implausible that the number of patients with the most complex spinal pathology [has] increased 15-fold in just six years».

It seems implausible to me that the low mineral content (parts per million level) in small amounts of tap water that stimulate sprouting would be converted to substantially many new antioxidants.

With focus given to both characters finding faith during their confinement, their road to redemption seems implausible, and dubious morals abound.

After years of living alongside these beings, it seems implausible that someone wouldn't have given them a name less awkward than «those we do not speak of.»

It seems implausible that the teachers who are best at teaching to the test are also best at fostering more general skills.

If the history of the De Tomaso Pantera seems implausible, that's because it was: The car was built in Italy by an Argentinian, designed in Italy by an American, and sold by Lincoln - Mercury dealers in the U.S.. By 1974 and the introduction of the GTS, sales had slowed though hundreds of cars continued to be produced into the»90s.

At the same time, don't hold back so much that the solution seems implausible.

At least in the UK, having a «proper» joint account seems implausible.

This seems implausible to me, if only because some stocks don't pay dividends.

Seems implausible.

Ninja Gaiden by Koei Tecmo also seems implausible.

It seems implausible at first glance, but the big picture sinks in and you forget about how it was created.

What works now might have seemed implausible then, even corny; what worked then might seem puerile now, mechanically subversive or provocative.

The possibility that it might have an actual existing physical form seemed implausible.

With enthusiasm about hydrogen energy declining in the U.S., it seems implausible that this expensive technology might suit the developing world, but that's exactly where Dr. Nicolas Lymberopoulos thinks it belongs — with a little «matchmaking» help.

Apple had never shown interest in making cars, and Elon Musk didn't seem interested in selling (more on that below), so the pairing seemed implausible.

It seems implausible, but I haven't studied the claims, so I wouldn't want anyone to take my word for it.

It seems implausible that Boulton was not involved in the decision to invite and / or hire Crowley and Hegerl to the University of Edinburgh while he was a Professor in the very department to which they were hired.

It seemed implausible to me that tree rings and pollen were more accurate indicators of the past climate conditions than written accounts and pictorial evidence.