Sentence examples for implausible argument from inspiring English sources

The Government's opening brief did not even address the question perhaps because, until today, no federal court has accepted the implausible argument that [the mandate] is an exercise of the tax power.

The accountants put forward the rather implausible argument that, far from this practice allowing conflicts of interest, it enhanced the quality of the audit.The experience at Enron, which last year paid Andersen $25m for its audit, and $27m for non-audit services, would seem to refute this claim.

A spokesman for PostEurop, a lobby group representing European postal operators, says several countries would prefer a deadline of 2012 at the earliest, with the wholly implausible argument that more time is needed to research the impact of liberalisation.The commission knows a delaying tactic when it sees one.

The Taliban have used the implausible argument that there are not sufficient funds to provide for girls' education.

But when you dig into the details, you can see Romney (or his policy team) straining to prevent themselves from getting boxed in to the implausible arguments and untenable policy positions that sometimes follow from this orthodoxy.

Many opponents find this conclusion implausible, but the regress argument is valid.

Considering this in addition to the problems mentioned above, the third premise of the presumed consent argument appears implausible and, consequently, the duty to treat cannot be grounded persuasively on the consent assumption.

As president of the International Law Society, the group that organized what Mr. Cohen called the ³bruising debate last month at Stanford University,² I find it highly implausible that any of the arguments made at this debate instigated former Justice Goldstone to write his now famous op-ed.

But (b) given our intuitive anti-skepticism, C seems immensely implausible, even though (c) the argument appears to be formally valid.

Finally serious concerns about issues of distributive justice are avoided by what Lange considers to be quite implausible appeals to "invisible hand" arguments (Lange 1873 75, 3 242 259).

These arguments are not implausible, and they seem to challenge the liberal view that no particular end or commitment should be beyond critical reflection and open to revision.