Sentence examples for preposterous assumption from inspiring English sources

Then came an NGO law that requires groups like mine — groups that are trying to affect public opinion and public policy — to register and publicly identify themselves as "foreign agents" on the preposterous assumption that if we accept even a kopeck of foreign funding it must mean that we are beholden to some foreign master.

A constant irritant for Ryle, throughout his writings, is "the preposterous assumption that every true or false statement either asserts or denies that a mentioned object or set of objects possesses a specified attribute" (1949a, 115).[13] As an example of a kind of sentence whose primary job is other than fact-stating, consider laws.

NOTE: Be on the lookout for Bennet sycophants to insist that Buck is parroting attacks from Romanoff - the preposterous assumption, of course, being that Romanoff is somehow responsible for the DPS/Wall Street story, not Bennet's actions and/or the New York Times Business Section.

Ryan's budget also dulls the GOP deficit reduction attack as his budget does not reach surplus until 2040 and then only with preposterous assumptions.

That was about as preposterous an assumption as she could imagine".

The Proms, the BBC and the WEA made mildly preposterous the crass assumption that the great unwashed were also unread.

His recommendation was based on reasoning that was as preposterous as its underlying assumption.

His assumptions were preposterous and while he was potentially projecting or coming from a place of pain (why do I have to be a therapist and analyze his true intentions), my knee-jerk reaction was to take the bait and bite back.

As even casual readers of media news know, those assumptions now sound precious, preposterous even.

Such projections assume that annually appropriated spending would be cut by tens of billions of dollars this year and then frozen for a decade, an assumption that Democrats consider politically preposterous.

The Republicans propose slashing spending far more than the public would probably accept — even dismantling Medicare — and rely on economic assumptions that are not merely rosy, but preposterous.