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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.

A century later the idea of order without design was rendered more plausible by Charles Darwin's discovery that the adaptations of the forms of life are a result of the natural selection of inherited characteristics having positive, and the elimination of those having negative, survival value within a changing environment.

On the other hand, it arguably makes the claim that the defendants made false admissions more plausible, by adding weight to their contention that, for whatever reason, each spoke about the crime with a view toward becoming a witness rather than a defendant.

The legend that King Solomon built his temple from this quarry - a claim for which there is no hard historical or archeological evidence - was made more plausible by the discovery in 1873 of an ancient bit of graffiti excavated by the French archeologist Charles Charlest-Ganneau.

If a patient leaves a suicidal message on Facebook, and the clinician misses it, there's a future — seemingly more plausible by the day — in which that clinician could be sued for malpractice if the patient then attempts suicide.

Findings in this month's Nature Structural Biology make such a transition a bit more plausible, by showcasing a new talent for RNA: the ability to attach an amino acid to another RNA molecule, a crucial step in making proteins.

This decision had become more plausible, perhaps, by the early 1960s, when Bond, the Beatles and the "British invasion" made up for the nation's political shortcomings.

He also discusses more "plausible impositions" by the state, like Quebec's ban on private insurance that covers services already provided by the public health system and Vermont's effort to keep out Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers.

Could we not have dispensed with Norman Neal Williams (Manoel Felciano), one of the book's more melodramatic figures, whose romance with Mary Ann is made slightly more plausible here by his less sinister depiction?

But Wilson presents a more plausible figure by placing him firmly in the Wagnerian aesthetic while building on what we know of his affection for Winifred Wagner, the composer's daughter-in-law and director of the Bayreuth festival in the 1930s.

But conspiracy theorists would probably find a more plausible explanation by looking through the rolodex of the convicted sex offenders's friends, which included Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew.