Sentence examples for absurd to run from inspiring English sources

In fact, ringfencing is just common sense: it is absurd to run the risk that a retail bank, supplying basic financial infrastructure at home such as payment systems, could be brought to its knees by losses generated by an international investment banking division.

Back home, some of the disputed sums might have been approved on the nod.It is an absurd way to run the world's biggest economy.

It was absurd to try to run with so much debt, accumulated in part through takeover and merger deals.

(He dismissed a constitutional amendment that would allow him to run as a French citizen as "absurd").

Mr. Markowitz, who has not yet decided whether to retire from politics or to run for mayor in 2013, called such criticism absurd.

There was the feeling that it made it parochial to run it from Edinburgh... Now that idea seems totally absurd".

That he even thinks there is a chance of a run out here is absurd: while Katich played the shot off the back foot, the call and response from Ponting at the nonstriker's end is instant and De Villiers has to run away from the cut strip to intercept the ball.

But now that we are five days into escalating distress -- people without homes, without water, without food, without gas, without electricity, without heat in sub-freezing temperatures -- it is patently absurd to think that running a sporting event that takes police personnel, thousands of volunteers, closing of bridges that are already strained makes any sense.

They never made the absurd threat to go running off to New Jersey.

The work, which runs from the absurd to the overwrought, reflects an enormous range not just of prices, but of sensibilities.

Her biggest asset was her ear; her ability to pick up on the absurd and run with it.