Sentence examples for improbable argument from inspiring English sources

Yes, say critics of the bill, but many other countries, among them South Korea, do not give permanent foreign residents voting rights.Others advance the rather improbable argument that the bill could jeopardise Japan's national security.

The group, Sikhs for Justice, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. making the improbable argument that Bachchan's work with a U.S. film company gives American courts the ability to hold him responsible for the massacre of thousands of Sikhs in India three decades ago.

Paul Clement, the superstar lawyer who recently turned the improbable arguments of the "Obamacare" challengers into a plausible Supreme Court case, has wisely argued in his Supreme Court briefs on behalf of Arizona that the state is "cooperating" with federal law and S.B. 1070 simply "mirrors" and implements federal law.

Because the conditions required to sustain life in our universe are so radically precise as to be overwhelmingly improbable, the argument goes, the best explanation is a theistic one.

Carter was also the first to apply anthropic principles to the origin of life in 1983, where it was argued that many steps in the early evolution of life might have been fairly improbable, an argument pursued at greater length in this contribution.

It seemed an improbable statement.

The argument might sound improbable, but it is at least not logically impossible.

Nor would (RH) be any less improbable than that if an argument of Eric Reitan's should turn out to be correct (see Kronen and Reitan 2011, Ch. 8).

Once arisen, fungiculture is not known to have been lost in insects and loss has been regarded as improbable [ 28], which provides an additional argument against the scenario involving a loss in Lasius.

Three arguments render this hypothesis highly improbable.

"Women don't dress up enough anymore," sighs Macdonald, trotting out his usual argument for his love of shiny, improbable eveningwear.