Sentence examples for be preposterous to from inspiring English sources

He let the joint cabinet committee fade away and said in January that it would be "preposterous" to make any sort of electoral pact with the government.

"It was supposed that after his defeat it would be preposterous to ask him to sit," Brady said later in an interview.

Although a package of internal party reforms will be approved at next autumn's Labour conference, he said it would be "preposterous" to finalise policies then.

It would be preposterous to bill us for this — akin to asking medical residents to pay the hospital for the right to train there.

But it would be preposterous to think this is the only explanation for the increase in cases being referred to social services.

"It would be preposterous to even contemplate that I would allow myself to be put in danger, or someone else, or my family or my country," Wood said.

It was preposterous to everybody except themselves.

It is preposterous to expect to hear wisdom emerge from them".

Once, it was preposterous to think that a woman could become the editor of the Times.

It is preposterous to tell a man who has lost everything to give it his best.

It is preposterous to behave as if the nuclear predicament didn't raise moral questions.