But they could not plausibly claim to have been cheated.
The appeals court ruled that the high court's ruling "does not plausibly" threaten a republican form of government.
They include queries about drawings, computer simulations and other evidence of work that could not plausibly be involved in civilian nuclear power programs.
Also, a Woolworth's luncheonette could not plausibly have claimed that serving a plate of hash browns was a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.
As a senior cabinet member publicly conceded after Mr Purnell's resignation, the government could not plausibly anoint a second unelected prime minister in a row.
This is not a matter of repudiating conservatism and becoming a vapid "centrist"—which he could not plausibly do, and should not in any case try to do.
Nor is it an argument about America's immediate security, which is not plausibly endangered by Assad's arsenal or any other dictator's stockpile.
This is why the leave campaign has ultimately favoured withdrawal from the single market – they could not plausibly have championed "control" in the face of such an obvious loss of power.
The Lib Dems could not plausibly enter a coalition with Labour if the administration that emerged were seen as a rickety continuation of the one that has just been punished by voters.
He thought that it suffered from a "free rider" problem: too many of our phenotypic traits have no discernible survival value, and therefore could not plausibly be interpreted as products of adaptation.
He's making a proportionality argument, and a very poor one.As I mentioned in my initial post, health care for the elderly is not plausibly among the background conditions for thriving business.
