By quitting now, the protesters can plausibly claim, by their lights, a specious moral victory.Blair under fireThe prime minister's handling of the crisis has shown no such tactical finesse.
Gen. William C. Westmoreland plausibly claimed a military victory over the Vietcong's Tet Offensive in 1968, but its effect on the American will to fight was devastating.
Though Cadillac once plausibly claimed to be "the standard of the world," the brand has degenerated into a mascot for the AARP set.
Messitte's ruling largely narrowed the lawsuit's scope to the Washington hotel, saying that the District and Maryland had standing to sue because they could plausibly claim to have been injured by Trump's receipt of payments from foreign and state governments.
We are told that we can hardly look the other way when there are not only apparent violations of a state's ballot rules, but also protests from thousands of voters who plausibly claim to have been misled by those violations into voting for the wrong candidate or voting in a manner (punching two holes) that led to the discarding of their ballots.
The fastest-growing take-away food franchises in America now are sandwich bars, led by Subway and Quiznos, which can plausibly claim to offer a "healthy" alternative to the deep-fried and mostly-meat products of the hamburger, chicken and taco chains.
If corporate taxes are borne mainly by shareholders, left-wing politicians can plausibly claim that cutting them is a boon to the rich, because richer people own more shares (even though the far-from-rich own lots too, through their pension funds).
This assumption has long been recognized as problematic, but in pluralistic and multicultural settings it becomes entirely untenable: one may plausibly claim to take an impartial moral point of view only by engaging in real discourse with all those affected by the issue in question.
"EU and Italian officials cannot plausibly claim to be unaware of the grave violations being committed by some of the detention officials and [Libyan Coast Guard] agents with whom they are so assiduously co-operating," an Amnesty report from December 2017 says.
