The plane reached Tokyo after four weeks, much of it absorbed in landings forced by impenetrable weather, usually followed by Charles's comforting (and often implausible) assertions that they had never been in serious danger while descending through cloud and fog.
The jury yesterday obviously rejected as implausible her assertion that she was unaware of it.
His assertion is implausible in light of a policy authorizing the Bureau's invasions of mosques, but because that policy remains secret, the FBI has escaped public examination.
A federal judge in Connecticut dismissed a disability discrimination suit this month, saying that Iqbal required her to treat the plaintiff's assertions as implausible.
That provoked another scornful counterattack from his former company, saying that Mr. Greenberg's assertions were "implausible," "not grounded in reality" and at odds with his track record of not hedging A.I.G.'s bets on credit-default swaps.
The assertion was rendered implausible, at best, by the fact that the police had information that so many hacking victims existed, and that so few of them had anything to do with the royal family.
Such a specious assertion remains as implausible today as it was during the Cold War.
Tauzin is from Louisiana, where tall tales grow like weeds, and at first his assertion seemed wildly implausible.
The inmate's assertion might well have seemed implausible, given the extensive system of checks and safeguards used in law enforcement to ensure that one person is not mistaken for another.
The "march of the makers" and "we are all in this together" sound like slogans on wartime posters by Fougasse (one imagines nicely drawn soldiers marching with spanners clasped to their chests), and while the first might be no more than a pretty thought in a post-industrial world, the second, as Ferdinand Mount writes, sounds "grotesquely implausible … an impudent and rather shaky assertion".
