Sentence examples for absurd requirements from inspiring English sources

"They make absurd requirements on compliance, process and control .But is such caution really so absurd?

With the patient air of someone who has tussled with Japanese bureaucracy before, he listed what he called the absurd requirements imposed upon him to take Japanese citizenship, including documentation to prove his completion of elementary school in New York City.

But for this absurd requirement, the Postal Service's finances might be in the black.

The British government announced that, on December 11th, it will finally lift its absurd requirement that pets entering the United Kingdom from the United States should be forced to endure the misery of six months in quarantine.Animals may have to spend a couple of days in quarantine while their paperwork and microchips are checked.

This is a completely absurd requirement, largely based on numerous myths about how sexualized violence is carried out.

UK citizens are being forced into exile by the Home Office's "irrational and absurd" minimum-income visa requirements, with some couples having no hope of ever being able to live together in Britain, the supreme court has heard.

Obama writes, "We're also getting rid of absurd and unnecessary paperwork requirements that waste time and money.

From a theoretic viewpoint one could rightly argue that the requirement is absurd: by asking to include these variables among the arguments of the policy it implicitly affirms that they are state variables (in the two previous examples they describe the weather system or the catchment), but at the same time it does not intend to model them as such.

(As an aside, that opinion was not just wrong but absurd: Congress puts all sorts of requirements on Medicaid, and could have taken away all the money without any Constitutional trouble. But that's SCOTUS).

Nevertheless, some participants of the certification body meeting expressed that the European certification requirements would partly be absurd, e.g. because of the distinction in between soy as oil and press cake and connected differing sustainability requirements.

Mr. Mills said that easing the graduation requirements even temporarily would be "absurd" and "unjust," because it would send a signal that not every student should be held to high expectations.