Sentence examples for an absurd plan from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Oliveira's film, he makes a messianic return and devises an absurd plan to return to Africa and create a Christian "Fifth Empire".

If it does not, taxes on nearly everyone will soar under an absurd plan enacted in 2001 called the snap-back tax, which provides that in 2011 the tax law that had been in effect in 2000 will reappear.

Mr. Cruz's campaign to defund health reform consists largely of an absurd plan to filibuster the very House bill that kept the government from closing and defunded the health law, a notion that was rejected by the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, and most Senate Republicans.

New York's normally frugal mayor, Rudy Giuliani, seems to have abandoned an economically absurd plan to build a new $1 billion home for his beloved Yankees in Manhattan; but he still seems keen on spending $700m in the Bronx.

It is between the banning by Fifa of its former heavyweight player Mohamed bin Hammam and the fact that the absurd plan – a legally impeccable description, we have to submit, m'lud – to stage the 2022 World Cup in the desert enclave of Qatar, where, he has for many years been considered Mr Football, is proceeding.

Spending cuts had to be managed, and an absurd Labour plan in 1979 to reduce it to an anti-communist propaganda rump had to be fought off.

Osborne has rightly attracted ridicule, even from friendly commentators, for his absurd plan to try to bind all future governments to a law that demands not just budget balance but budget surpluses during "normal times" – a phrase that opens up great scope for debate.

To sell this absurd plan, the Governor and the Suffolk County Legislature have supported the most intense campaign of fear and distrust in the history of Long Island and multiplied the cost of the Shoreham nuclear power plant by legal delaying tactics.

Scottish Conservative finance spokesman Murdo Fraser said First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was "preparing to obsess over her absurd plan to get rid of the pound" rather that her "supposed" top priority of improving the country's education system.

He's the first to call bull on the absurd plan to "control" dinosaur DNA in Jurassic Park, the loudest to scream-chortle his way through space travel among jaded crew in Independence Day: Resurgence, the deputy going above-and-beyond to investigate a suspicious death in The Grand Budapest Hotel.

He's the first to call bull on the absurd plan to "control" dinosaur DNA in Jurassic Park, the loudest to scream-chortle his way through space travel among the jaded crew in Independence Day: Resurgence, the deputy going above-and-beyond to investigate a suspicious death in The Grand Budapest Hotel.