"Contrary to the prevailing CITES theory that this ivory sale would flood the market in China, which EIA considered a preposterous notion, the result was that the Chinese government bodies decided to sell only five tonnes a year.
Dr Yokota and his colleagues went so far as to call their results "preposterous".
Preposterous is the resulting implication that by keeping rush first term, we somehow "trick" the freshmen into choosing fraternities and living groups.
But others, such as Dr Dave O'Brien, who lectures on public policy at City University, says it is a "genuinely preposterous" plan that will result in a "two-tier civil service," prone to conflicts of interest and outsourced policy teams lacking the terms, conditions and protection of civil servants.
The result is preposterous to anyone who dares to peek inside our apartment's many closets, where books and magazines and files, never looked at, and old slippers and golf shoes and even the stubs of theatre tickets of long ago, are stacked or balanced so precariously that it's not worth even trying to dislodge a paper, let alone a book.
I proffered increasingly preposterous proofs, which produced similar results.
But Mr Darboe called the results "bogus, fraudulent and preposterous" and he urged the international community not to accept them.
Mackey's implication that cancer as a general disease is a result of poor diet is preposterous and ill-informed.
This results in applicants getting rejected for preposterous reasons.
Sadly, the resulting film is as heavy, unmanoeuvrable and preposterous as the stretch limo at its centre; a "day in the life" drama with no satisfying life.
