Sentence examples for preposterous argument from inspiring English sources

It is hard to imagine the Clintons' pushing such a preposterous argument were their ox not gored.

US Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson should be congratulated for giving the gun lobby its most preposterous argument yet.

Will we talk ourselves once more into the preposterous argument that we are in a position to beat the best of the world game?

And the UK government has used every manner of evasion – including trying out the preposterous argument that because the term genocide was adopted by the UN in 1948, it couldn't be applied retrospectively.

In the third story, Travolta, bloodied after accidentally killing a young man in the back seat of a car, goes to wash up with his equally blood-soaked partner, Samuel L. Jackson, and the two get into a preposterous argument over the appropriateness of getting the towels dirty.

Apart from the dodgy arithmetic involved in coming up with that figure (the sort of magic maths which involves closing your eyes and repeatedly banging the calculator against your forehead), the idea that we can only have one thing or the other – AV or healthy babies – is such a preposterous argument, even the baby could see through it.

One of the most preposterous arguments raised by religious and social conservatives against administering a vaccine to girls to protect them from human papillomavirus, or HPV, has been that it might encourage them to become promiscuous.

Reading Mr. Kinsely's column for Bloomberg Views brings the added joy of role reversal: after all, making seemingly preposterous arguments, and then arguing diligently for them, is something of a Kinsley trademark.

The main - quite preposterous - argument for delaying an inquiry is that it would distract people involved in the ongoing "overwatch" operation.

Bush was not a humanitarian, and he specifically ruled this out as a justification, choosing instead to rely on a preposterous legal argument that the US was entitled to "pre-emptive self defence" – ie to invade any country that it thought, subjectively, might one day pose a threat to its national interests.

This week's grotesque pantomime in Seattle suggests that this horrible prospect needs to be thought about.To say this is not to support the preposterous non-arguments with which the WTO has been assailed these past few days.