Sentence examples for implausible position from inspiring English sources

"It is a totally implausible position to take".

One does not wish to be carried from the great importance of each individual to the implausible position that all fundamental rights are absolute.

This is likely to seem an implausible position nowadays, when political activity is frenetic, and learning is a matter of speciality; but in the eighteenth century, when an agile mind could manage at least the basics of several branches of learning, and the British legislature was often in session for less than six months in a year, it was more plausible.

Without the use of the term 'essential' in the above definitions, we would allow for cases in which a person was capable of becoming aware of what was in fact an inessential part of her knowledge basis for p. This would unfairly saddle the internalist with an unnecessarily implausible position, and the use of the term 'essential' is designed to avoid that consequence.

Why does Breyer take this implausible position?

On the other hand, if you deny the assumption that humans are social, group-based primates with constraints, however imprecise, on their willingness to share, you find yourself having to defend some implausible positions: for example, that we should spend as much on development aid as on the NHS, or that Britain should have no immigration controls at all.

Each subject's right hand was stroked while viewing their own hand ("REAL"), or an artificial hand presented in an anatomically plausible ("CONGRUENT") or implausible ("INCONGRUENT") position.

In asking a court to give its imprimatur to an implausible legal position, the CIA risked losing the confidence not only of the judiciary but also of Congress and the American people.

The new year is just barely getting started, but all across the land folks are busy gobbling goodies they've passionately pledged to eschew, failing to contort themselves into implausible yoga positions they've valiantly vowed to contort themselves into every day, smoking cigarettes they've solemnly sworn off of.

Heseltine always used to be coy about his prime-ministerial ambition, affecting implausible innocence; "My position is a very simple one," he once claimed, "I have never sought preferment in the Conservative party".

Guardian contributor Jess Zimmerman – and self-proclaimed "misandrist witch" – told Hess: "It's inhabiting the most exaggerated, implausible distortion of your position, in order to show that it's ridiculous".