Sentence examples for absurd outcome from inspiring English sources

This system, along with the winner-take-all practice used to allocate most states' electoral votes, creates the potential for an absurd outcome.

"It is just an absurd outcome," said Paromita Shah, associate director of the National Immigration Project, "when a man who has a motion from a US attorney who says he is not a threat to society is being viewed as a target for deportation by another agency under the same executive branch of government".

This seems an absurd outcome.Moreover, the lawyers may protest too much.

This additional obstacle to the already high-risk process of pharmaceutical R&D would be the logical, yet absurd, outcome of bureaucrats' cost-benefit determinations.

From here, Nicholson uncoils the plot with great relish, neatly manipulating plausible premises into more and more absurd outcomes.

This case is one of the more absurd outcomes of the counter-terror legislation of the last few years.

This leads to self-evidently absurd outcomes: Cappelli mentions a company that had twenty-five thousand applicants for a standard engineer's job and rejected them all.

Spath thought that Baker's reading of the Military Commissions Act could lead to absurd outcomes, because the defense could then bring the trial to a halt anytime it wanted to, by denying the accused representation.

"As we continue to fight what I think are absurd outcomes," he said, "we want everyone to know that we are digging in and are well-prepared for the long haul on legal matters".

In addition, this argument, taken to its logical extreme, yields absurd outcomes.

Among those working to avert so absurd an outcome are London Councils, the body which represents the capital's 33 local authorities.