Sentence examples for made more plausible from inspiring English sources
Marks duly told the customs investigators that he had been asked to infiltrate IRA drug-smuggling operations, a claim made more plausible by his association with a maverick Irishman, Jim McCann.
Some critics of Nafta jeered at this argument, claiming that Mexican reform was a sham, that the reformers themselves were merely well-spoken crooks -- a claim made more plausible as revelations emerged about the dealings of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
But it refined the original Medicare proposal and substantially improved it, moving in a direction similar to the bipartisan proposal that Ryan and Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden had authored, which made more plausible assumptions about both the substance and the selling of Medicare reform.
This dream scenario, while distant, has been made more plausible by a rapid reduction in the cost of molecular assays.
The assumption is not testable, but it can be made more plausible by using a more inclusive strategy in which more variables are included in the imputer model for prediction of missing values.
One reason why this investigation is important is because MAR analyses are made more plausible by including variables that are good predictors of missingness: if they predict missingness sufficiently well so that any role of missing Y i is non-existent, or at least negligible, then the MAR assumption is adequate.
Even if Iran were to show a readiness to accept an interim deal — something the economic pressure makes more plausible — the United States and the other powers are probably not yet willing to meet Tehran's terms.
This makes more plausible the assumption that the argument has as an implicit premise the claim that there is no more to the person than the five skandhas.
In particular, we shall develop a heuristic argument that serves to make more plausible the universality hypothesis in both thermal critical phenomena and percolation phenomena, and suggest that this argument could be developed into a possible coherent approach to understanding the ubiquity of scale invariance and universality in a wide range of complex systems.
Subjects made more DL responses on the plausible addition or subtraction manipulation photos than on either of the implausible types, geometrical manipulations and shadow manipulations.
Recommendations for "respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette," such as covering one's mouth when coughing and avoiding spitting, have been made more on the basis of plausible effectiveness than controlled studies (32 ).
