Sentence examples for ludicrous to attempt from inspiring English sources

American rule-makers have signalled they would like to extend "mark-to-market" accounting to loan books as well as securities, whereas the standard-setting body that decides the rules in most other countries is moving in the other direction.Since accounting largely defines what capital is, it is ludicrous to attempt a common capital standard without fairly homogenous book-keeping standards.

It was ludicrous to try to attempt it in the same week that the decision on the euro was announced.

It might seem ludicrous now to attempt to dramatise Macbeth or King Lear in just a couple of reels, but at the time, it was a chance worth taking.

He was paying his way to attempt an admittedly ludicrous and obsessive ambition – to become world squash champion.

But the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous". At the same time, a prominent Clinton ally, Robert L. Johnson, appeared to attempt to revive the issue of Obama's admitted past drug use.

Is ludicrous to worry that he really will attempt to deport all undocumented workers in any possible way and make President Obama seem rational on the issue?

Mother!" This anguished moment, brought home by Mr. Birney with a radioactive intensity, is followed by the play's almost farcical climax, as Vanya lurches from a tragic figure to a comic one, storming back onstage to make a ludicrous attempt to avenge himself by shooting Serebryakov.

But a part of me has always been fascinated by the seedy, sticky world of the London clubbing culture I never really got to experience, bar a few ludicrous attempts to get into such places in my mid-teens.

"It's ludicrous to allow any fishing".

It's probably ludicrous to wish for that.

(Some of his claims were often ludicrous to experts).