Hopes of creating mobile marine reserves have been around for more than a decade, but Crowder said that only in recent years has the concept become plausible because of improvements in satellite imaging and GPS tagging of species.
The prospect that Westway will never be built has become plausible on account of the recent decision by Federal Judge Thomas P. Griesa, who agreed with environmentalists that the landfill area along lower Manhattan necessary to the project coincided with a critical natural habitat for striped bass who migrate down the Hudson to the Atlantic.
Even behemoths like Home Depot, with a market cap of $82 billion, become plausible fodder for the takeover gristmill.
Inferential methods used here may become increasingly powerful as detailed simulations of organisms and historical scenarios become plausible.
By shifting emphasis away from individual frequencies of deleterious variants toward cumulative frequencies, explanations for common disorders with complex inheritance become plausible.
Recently, the economic production of C5 and C6 sugars from waste cellulosic materials has become plausible, making plant sugars derived from lignocellulose a feasible source of renewable feedstocks [ 12, 13].
But it wasn't until the dawn of the personal computer in the 1970's and advances in the 1990's that brain-to-computer interfaces became plausible.
To become a plausible and attractive alternative prime minister, Ed Miliband will have to grow into something more than being a good heckler.
But it has been working for 12 years on how to become a plausible modern party of government, and should be given a chance to try.
Supporters have said Mr. Thompson's plan is to become the plausible alternative to the 10 Republicans who are already running for president but have failed to excite the broad base of conservatives who dominate the party's primaries.
