Sentence examples for which seems implausible from inspiring English sources

The plot turns on an explosive affair (First Husband, anyone?) and a disaster in the Middle East, neither of which seems implausible.

Employing different sorts of techniques for removing unobserved heterogeneity (demeaning, regression in changes and correlated random effects), the resulting point estimates are extremely imprecise and in many cases very close to zero (which seems implausible as long as disability has an impact on labour market participation and even subjective well-being).

Those comments escalate Whitman beyond deniability (which seems implausible, given the nine year time span during which she employed Diaz).

3 However, this hypothesis generates a rather puzzling picture which seems implausible as a general notion of the relationship between goal- and preference-attributions.

Exclusion of these individuals, however, is unlikely to influence the relation between health behaviours in stroke observed in the rest of the cohort unless this association were in the opposite direction in those excluded, which seems implausible.

This point may also be pertinent to our observations of a net protective association of both ozone and CO with myocardial infarction risk over 72 hours, which seems implausible as a causal relationship.

At the time, investigators were able to rule out three common scenarios: the plane running out of fuel, which seemed implausible at such a high altitude; any errors credited to the pilot; and inclement weather, as the report stated clear skies in that area.

This so-called drift can well be equally ascribed to either period effects or cohort effects, but to account for the raised risk in the early cohorts would require a decreasing rather than an increasing linear trend across periods, which seems rather implausible.

Incidentally this week I came across another quote she allegedly said which seems even more implausible to me: "wear a smile and have friends, wear a frown and have wrinkles," or words to that close effect.

Her posse of buddies — a ragtag gang that includes her brother and a bunch of other dudes — surround her without hitting on her, which seems at first implausible, but makes sense as her persona emerges as a mix of sisterly, collegial and abrasive.

Partly because it required that feathers spring up evolutionary speaking at just the right moment in bird evolution, which seemed frankly implausible, and mostly because feathered non-avian dinosaurs started turning up.