Initially, Marston wanted Tobón simply to read his script to see if it was plausible, but, he says, "fairly quickly I became impressed with the atmosphere of his office".
Asked if it was "plausible" that Britain would still have three separate armed services a decade from now, the Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, insisted it was, although he said there were issues to be debated.
If it is plausible to adapt current machinery, how much material is available?
Even if it were plausible to arrange moral precepts hierarchically, situations can arise in which the same precept gives rise to conflicting obligations.
Thus the alteration of a trait could be causally related to a change in (or a loss of) a single genetic factor, even if it was plausible in general that a trait like eye-color was, in fact, determined by a whole group of variously interacting genes (Roll-Hansen 1978b; Schwartz 2000).
If it is plausible to suppose that we base our attributions on behavioral tests or behavioral criteria, then his claim about the appropriate test to apply in the case of machines seems apt, and his conjecture that digital computing machines might pass the test seems like a reasonable though controversial empirical conjecture.
"We're looking at schedules," Conti said to see if it is plausible to coach the girls again.
However, when asked if it was plausible that Contador had ingested the clenbuterol through contamination, Catlin said "without knowing what the level in his sample is, it's impossible to say".
Missing data patterns will be evaluated to assess if it is plausible that data is missing at random [ 39].
If it is plausible that there is no correlation between multiple primary outcomes, then Bonferroni adjustment may be used.
