The home office minister Nick Herbert has stated in parliament that it's acceptable for police officers to have sex with activists, for the sake of their "plausibility".
The word "plausibility" was not used in the debate.
This manuscript then goes through the usual peer review process, and is assessed on criteria such as the soundness of the methods and analysis, and overall plausibility of the stated hypotheses.
This argument could have been levelled with equal plausibility against Barack Obama in 2007, when he was a first-term senator running against Ms Clinton.
And in Paris there were rumours of a coup d'état.At the time of that dinner, the "long-way-from-Paris" theory had no more than a superficial plausibility.
The persistence of "frontier justice" into the 1930s in America gives a colour of plausibility to that idea.Yet it is not Mr Kaufmann's view.
But above all he was a human experienced in global finance, yes, but even so trying to assess the plausibility of the occurence of an event well outside the lived experience of everyone in that room, and faring reasonably well all things considered.No one expects the Great Depression.
All a blogger really needs to devastate a company is a bit of information and plausibility, a complaint that catches the imagination and a knack for making others care about his gripe.Mike Kaltschnee's site, HackingNetflix.com, became a force to be reckoned with for Netflix, a video-rental outfit that delivers to people's homes.
It lends plausibility to the idea that some former loyalists, after years of internal rifts and months of defections, might be ready to shop Pol Pot to obtain acceptable terms for abandoning the armed struggle.
Besides, the Catholic bits of Germany such as Bavaria are the richest.Peter Berger, an American sociologist, has found that Weber's theories have a certain plausibility in Latin America, where a Protestant, and especially a Pentecostalist minority, outperforms the Catholic majority.
He engaged enthusiastically enough in EU matters to claim with some plausibility that Britain would be "at the heart of Europe", at least until Dutch and French voters turned down the prospect of a European constitution and let him off the hook.
