Sentence examples for a plausible defense from inspiring English sources

Hence the sudden enthusiasm in Washington for paying off the national debt: it is a plausible defense against a tax cut that would reduce the surplus before the spending takes place.

But each accusation has come with an entirely plausible defense.

Implicating a second officer, the judges said yesterday, would have been a plausible alternative defense strategy, but they said Mr. Worth had a reason for avoiding it.

There's more to the argument that the shooters feared for their lives than just that it's the only plausible defense.

Rubio, the realities of Republican Party power shining like perspiration on his face, refused not only to make that pledge but to make even a semi-plausible defense of why he would not, as would once have been, in the old-fashioned sense, the politic thing to do.

But at oral argument, the appellate judges raised some more plausible defenses.

"How in the world are you going to be able to raise reasonable doubt unless you can impeach prosecution witnesses in a manner that they will clearly be surprised as opposed to being able to put together a plausible story?" But some defense lawyers in New Jersey and Minnesota said mandatory disclosures could lead to more pleas and dismissals before trial.

Members of these families are involved in overcoming host defenses, providing a plausible reason for their reduction in the YLS.

Recent studies of selenium, copper, and zinc supplements in burn patients [ 14] and high-dose selenium in severe sepsis [ 15] confirm these positive observations: the reinforcement of the AOX defenses is a plausible mechanism [ 3].

He said he was stunned that the judge did not talk at all about the Rikers Island incident, which much of the new case was built around, and which the defense said provided a plausible motive.

Under the Batson test, if a defense attorney makes a plausible showing that the prosecutor is dismissing jurors based on their race, the prosecutor must then state race-neutral reasons for the peremptory strikes.