Sentence examples for absurd contention from inspiring English sources

This absurd contention is now one of the main issues of the campaign.

I believe the founding fathers would turn over in their graves at the absurd contention, made by some, that it would violate the First Amendment to deny a federal office seeker the opportunity to buy what the 1934 law calls, without defining, "a reasonable amount of time".

It was an extraordinary joint mea culpa, the four remaining panelists of ESPN's "Sunday N.F.L. Countdown" offering their regrets yesterday for failing to comment last Sunday on Rush Limbaugh's absurd contention that the news media wanted Donovan McNabb to succeed because he is black.

If anyone could ever publicly corner Limbaugh and confront him with numbers clearly disproving his absurd contention, you can bet on a very predictable response to avert embarrassment.

They simply repeated their argument that social Darwinism is a "logical... conclusion of Darwinian scientific theory" and then, grotesquely, pointed to the existence of serial killers to support their absurd contention.

(Even if the definition of art is limited to the work of male Italian painters of the 14th to 16th centuries, the contention is absurd).

A federal magistrate judge recently ordered a hearing on Mr. Nosair's claim of prosecutorial misconduct, leading to a sharp response from prosecutors, who say Mr. Nosair's contention is "absurd" and deny suppressing the witness.

Sorley's contention is absurd.

Mr. Breivik maintains that the militant network really exists, a contention that prosecutors say is absurd.

It is a contention that is prima facia absurd.

The visionary's world of angels is the reductio of dynamic cosmology the absurd final consequence of Kant's own contentions.