Sentence examples for ludicrous argument from inspiring English sources

"It was a ludicrous argument," the adviser said.

They are trying to stoke hometown anxieties with the ludicrous argument that detainees present extraordinary dangers beyond the 1.2 million convicted felons in prisons across America.

In his review of Michael A. Bellesiles's "Arming America" (Sept . 10, Garry Wills accepts the book's ludicrous argument, which dismisses the use of firearms in America from early times.

Almost immediately our American distribution team at Gramercy started a ludicrous argument that the title needed changing, as any mention of death in America would be disastrous at the box office.

The same will clearly be true for runways and aeroplanes, despite the ludicrous argument that a third runway will only mean less congestion before and after take-off, and therefore less pollution.

Peart's ultra-libertarian stance was construed by the NME, never one to shy away from a ludicrous argument, as being dangerously close to Nazism, despite Rand – and Lee – being Jewish.

Let's address the really ludicrous arguments first.

We've seen ludicrous arguments against the ACA get a friendly hearing in lower courts before.

But going forward, I will not regard the people who passed the buck, who justified the unjustifiable or who made ludicrous arguments instead of acting in the same light.

"By using rights-abusing laws, ludicrous arguments and special cyber courts, Malaysia appears to be aiming at shutting down the vibrant and diverse online news environment that has grown up because of the government's control and censorship of the mainline print and TV media," he said.

She instead chose to wage war on the obviously ludicrous strawman argument that absolutely nobody made: that merely to depict torture is to endorse it and that omitting torture would be to "whitewash" history.