This is a professionally crafted and engaging story in the tradition of Sebastian Faulks's Charlotte Gray, made plausible by the author's attention to historical detail.
He would now be Clark Rockefeller, a man whose existence she helped render plausible by providing him with a credit card bearing his new name, on her account.
If those cases appeared plausible by late this week, they might give Mr. Gore a new reason to delay bringing his fight to an end.
Given all the restrictions on studio operations in Germany, Gyssling's threats could not have been very plausible by the middle of the decade.
Their Etruscan origin is rendered plausible by Rome's proximity to Etruria, Rome's growing geographic significance, and the public works that were carried out by the kings themselves.
But robotic planes are becoming progressively better at takeoff and landing, and the idea of pilotless FedEx and U.P.S. transoceanic flights is technically plausible by the end of the decade.
Hoping for gravitas, Ferguson assembled his own crew with strict instructions against mission creep: the contributors to "Virtual History" were to keep things plausible by restricting their substitute outcomes to those "which contemporaries contemplated".
The Mythbusters declared the death ray "busted" in 2004 after they were unable to start a fire with their version; Dr. Wallace and his class said they proved it plausible by burning a mock-up ship in 2005.
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.
All the same, businessmen greeted Mr. Medvedev's sunny speech as a welcome pitch to foreign investors from a government known more for its cold shoulder, made plausible by the government's need for an infusion of expertise in running technology enterprises.
In closing arguments, Cochran told the jury that the LA police were trying to frame Simpson because of the colour of his skin, an accusation made plausible by evidence admitted during the trial showing that Fuhrman was indubitably a racist.
