Sentence examples for crackpot from inspiring English sources

We've had crackpot workfare scheme after workfare scheme, but no progress has been made as a result.

So why did I think "Oooh, he's toast!" Because I am human, and I make most judgments and decisions on the basis of crackpot hunches, the underlying logic of which is almost completely inscrutable to me.

On both issues the increasing frequency of Niño events and the role that clouds are expected to play in global warming there are nowhere near enough historical data from weather satellites to refute, finally and categorically, all the crackpot notions about climate change (or lack thereof).

You can still get away (as we do) with predicting trends in the world next year, but push the timeline out much further, and you might as well wear a t-shirt saying "crackpot".

Democratic success in Colorado is also due to a well-funded, well-organised state party and a Republican tendency to pick crackpot candidates.

IN THE nature of such quarrels, one man's crackpot is another man's torch-bearer for liberty.

And the country's president, Thabo Mbeki, was promoting the crackpot theory that HIV did not cause AIDS.

The chief culprit, however, is the monarchy, for which the 2001 massacre was just the latest episode in generations of vicious infighting between crackpot kings, bloodthirsty regents, scheming queens and hereditary prime ministers.As for the Maoists, the only people to speak well of them and their reign of terror, Ms Thapa discovers, are Maoists themselves.

"Comitology", this is called, and though it is an eminently less crackpot concept than its name implies it has met with criticism from parliamentarians.

IN RICH countries, financial services on the whole work remarkably well, despite the exotic salaries, the crackpot deals and the occasional bust.

(John Yettaw, a probable crackpot, swam across a lake to turn up on the lawn of Miss Suu Kyi's house uninvited.