Sentence examples for implausible attempts from inspiring English sources

But as the protests continued for a second day, the original riot had become a metaphor for the failure of the military-led government to resolve the complaints that fuel recurring street violence, including brutal but capricious police officers, a lack of accountability and implausible attempts to blame mysterious third parties for social unrest.

That's how, at age 26, I found myself restudying remedial high school mathematics in an implausible attempt to become an engineer.

Yet, driven by an increasingly implausible attempt to make projected public expenditure figures add up, we are now supposed to believe that Mr Brown has a reborn belief in slimming government waste and fat.

He offers a disjointed collection of monologues (about squirrels, crows and a blind cat, among other subjects), implausible exchanges and attempts to be charmingly quirky.

Mark Phelan and Hagop Sarkissian (2009, 179) find the idea of localizing the source of the asymmetry in a single stage or variable implausible, claiming that "attempts to account for the Knobe effect by recourse to only one or two variables, though instructive, are incomplete and overreaching in their ambition".

He argues that it is implausible even to attempt to reduce all affections to self-interested ones, since mere caprice is common ("Sensus" 54-5).

Wozencraft's story of murder and family dynamics in southern Texas is suspenseful, though much diminished by an implausible plot and forced attempts at depth.

The ministry also noted that the Philippine vessel is more than seven times the weight of the fishing boat, making the allegation of an attempted ramming implausible.

But the appeal court said that Bosch had concocted an incredible and implausible story in an attempt to convince it of her innocence.

After the gulf war, it was not implausible that Iraqi scientists would attempt another subterfuge: importing aluminum tubes for small artillery rockets and modifying them to produce centrifuges based on a declassified 1950's German design.

He served for four months in 2004 on implausible charges relating to the 2002 attempted coup against Chávez.