Sentence examples for plausible to make from inspiring English sources

Paulos plays with the numbers and comments, "an unscrupulous, but numerate hoaxer might have even cooked up some flapdoodle sufficiently plausible to make money from such a 'cosmic connection.' " But nobody did, and it's hard to imagine that anyone would.

In "The Lovers," Jacobs, who is both writer and director, instead seems to have exhausted his creativity in his efforts to make the setup mesh — to make the timing of the events plausible, to make the basic motives of who wants to tell what to whom and when make sense.

Since MC is a topic-prominent language (Tsao 1979; Huang 1984; Tsai 2015b), it is plausible to make this assumption6.

If union wage premia reflect rents rather than unobserved ability differences it seems plausible to make the (stronger) identifying assumption, used in this paper; that union status, controlling for occupation, is uncorrelated directly with the parental influence on educational outcomes of the children10.

It seems plausible to make transgenic ferrets using virus vectors because the successful application of virus vectors to make transgenic monkeys and marmosets was reported (Chan et al., 2001; Lois et al., 2002; Sasaki et al., 2009).

Even viewers who resent the plot machinery of "Love Affair" are likely to fall for Dunne and Boyer, who seemed so natural within the movie's artifice -- imbued with plausible regrets, moved by a plausible desire to make their lives better.

So a rate hike was the only plausible way to make a statement.

The advocates of action argue that most Arab leaders would be glad to see Mr. Hussein go, but that they need a plausible case to make to their people -- concrete evidence of wrongdoing, perhaps, or some tangible American economic assistance.

Teixeira was chosen from 10 plausible candidates to make way as the interim manager, Rob Edwards, sought to find a route back from 2-0 down but instead of hurrying to let George Saville have a go at sparking their comeback he lumbered slowly towards the touchline, his discontent evident while the Molineux crowd, close to apoplexy, made theirs felt in another way.

Sean Collins, a senior economist at the institute and the author of its study, says a "plausible way to make an apple-to-apple comparison" between funds and pensions is to limit the fund universe to those that hire third parties, or subadvisers, to manage their portfolios.

A very plausible way to make the divide between those who would emphasize the relevance of casual history to freedom and responsibility and those who would not is to distinguish between internalist theories of free will and moral responsibility on the one hand, and externalist theories of free will and moral responsibility on the other (for example, see Mele 1995; and Fischer and Ravizza, 1998).