Sentence examples for preposterous arguments from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

And in equally cheery news, New Brunswick's TeleCare hotline is slanting information on abortions towards the anti-choice side of the preposterous argument.

As for the Buffett rule, she dismisses it as a "ruse" to distract from "the President's preposterous argument that wealth creates poverty".

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