Sentence examples for outlandish estimates from inspiring English sources
The government appealed to Beijing, using outlandish estimates of the flood of immigrants the ruling would unleash.
In my experience dealing with his more outlandish estimates of his own wealth, a useful, if not entirely reliable, rule of thumb is to move the decimal point one place to the left.
Not so outlandish an idea.
It was an inconvenient assertion, coming as it did on the eve of war, and it earned the repudiation of Vice-President Dick Cheney, of Rumsfeld (who said Shinseki was "far off the mark"), and of Paul Wolfowitz (who testified that Shinseki's estimates were "outlandish").
No idea is too outlandish to suggest.
The idea is not as outlandish as it may sound.
Assuming Fayyad's $800 million estimate is correct (it's not that outlandish when you consider he grew Yahoo's behavioral targeting business from $20 million to $500 million in four years), that's a fascinating "what if" scenario.
The oft-cited estimates of $100 billion or more for that are outlandish.
Moreover, by some estimates, Facebook's purchase does not seem so outlandish.
