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And if Gruber were a highly implausible candidate for this kind of consulting, you might suspect that this was one of them.

But it is implausible to suppose that this is all that's going on.

That, frankly, sounds implausible, but if it is a myth, it was widespread, and was being propagated by the following day's newspapers.

Given how much money Mr Peterson has made that seems implausible, but it hints at something underlying much business philanthropy.

The fact that this plot is wholly implausible does nothing to diminish the fun.

The Tories have so far resisted calls to pledge tax cuts, saying the recession makes such a pledge implausible.

These do not seem implausible "best guesses" of the growth outcome for next year. What are the risks, on the upside and downside?

In theory, Eichengreen insists, the renminbi's rise as a global currency is no less implausible than was the dollar's around 1920.

But the notion that it could possibly compensate for years of lost output and lost jobs seems wholly implausible.

Finally, the claim that China's total government debt is spiraling out of control depends on implausible assumptions.

The third argument is not ridiculous, but such a happy outcome seems implausible, given the situation in which Greece finds itself.

The survey that follows sizes up some of the most promising options, as well as a couple that are popular yet implausible .

Fifty years later, economists continue to claim justification for implausible assumptions on the basis of his argument.

Implausible meteorological phenomena were also invoked: the countries' relations had become an "everlasting warm spring" .

It was an implausible charge, but, when everything that is routine about a society is violently altered, anything can seem possible.

All this is impressive, but it seems implausible that these trade-offs have been "resolved" .

I believe in making the implausible a reality, and I hope to someday break a few records myself.

It was far faster than the annual growth rate of the American economy, which made the forecasts implausible to begin with.

This seems implausible, and I'm not saying that merely because Peston once worked for the Financial Times.

The fact that the Greek people are unwilling to bear the pain merely makes the already implausible quite inconceivable.

Implausible though this may sound, the theoretical mechanism behind such an effect is pretty well understood.

Implausible as it may sound, right now equities and corporate bonds are a better long-term bet than cash.

Rational choice philosophy, by contrast, was always implausible.

While a focus on cybersecurity is important, analysts believe that cyber terrorist threats to computer structures are implausible.

Who knows, one day a virgin birth in humans may not be so implausible after all.

NAUGHTY and tiresome children like insults (both overt and needling) as well as implausible and elaborate excuses.

With the yield well below the historic average it seems implausible to assume any further contribution from valuation.

His personal charm is incredible, unbelievable , implausible and inexplicable.

DP Sams also found the employee's argument to be "implausible and ridiculous" .

What should have been: The whole idea that the Earth's core would stop spinning is implausible, chimes Mr Kirby.

Many scientists with the necessary skills are reluctant to investigate therapies they think are implausible.

On the collectors' side, the old provenances once claimed for the items can look implausible in hindsight.

On the contrary, war talk seems inherently implausible to people raised in prosperous, peaceful western Europe.

Whether this is the case depends on physical subtleties that are currently undecided, but it is not implausible.

The idea that poverty could be associated with terrorism is not implausible.

At his birth, in 1881, Lu Xun's future as a professional iconoclast would have looked implausible.

Christie's approach may sound implausible in the US, where crime is far more prevalent than in his home of Norway.

The inflation numbers cited imply a completely implausible estimate of the slope of the SRAS.

That was once an implausible, distant, dream; now it's a reality so commonplace that we take it for granted.

It's a fair bet that some of the things that happen over the next ten years seem just as implausible today.

Sceptical observers see this as an implausible outcome.

About racism, I had to confess it was implausible to me.

Professor Janet Todd, editor for the Cambridge edition of Jane Austen, said that murder was implausible.

It seems implausible now, but the "something really wild" Mike held was not goth, metal, or punk.

It is repeated three more times in total, piano and orchestra both becoming ever louder, the leaps turning ever more implausible .

The idea that they would prove eternally alien to particular cultures has long seemed quite implausible.

She now believes suicide is extremely unlikely because there is one critical detail that makes. . . it implausible.

If I didn't know my economic history, I'd find the idea implausible.

The population projections they derive make the "high-count" hypothesis "highly implausible, " they argue.

Itis implausible that Goldman tried to drum up public interest.

Some are skeptical a major devaluation is ahead, though they agree it's not entirely implausible.

The idea of impacting your world globally is overwhelming and implausible all at once.

We told ourselves that everything would be fine, because the alternative seemed so implausible.

In both novels, too, unlikely things happen, coincidences of people and history that seem too implausible even for fiction.

The claim is implausible, and the timing extraordinary: only two days earlier, Mr Abe had delivered his policy speech before the Diet.

I realise all this sounds implausible, and it is.

With hindsight, the whole affair seems deeply implausible.

Your background is entirely implausible.

I know, that seems sort of implausible, but what about the XML sample in Listing 4?

It is implausible that Goldman tried to drum up public interest.

Predictions that Japan would over-take the US, popular in the late 1980s, were always implausible.

Ultimately, though, skepticism about the value of either gift - $100 or life itself - seems implausible and forced.

The answer is yes, but on conditions that seem increasingly implausible if we extrapolate current policies.

Equally implausible is the notion that an extraterrestrial race would want to colonize Earth.

China has cited "environmental" concerns as the reason for the export quotas. That is less implausible than it sounds.

The US number should be large, though, and the country does have a huge hosting infrastructure, so it's not entirely implausible.

These promises are either hollow or implausible.

Whatmade Marxism seem implausible, then, was not that capitalism had changed itsspots.

For Smith, who had lived in a Glasgow transformed by trade and industry, this was implausible.

But how to achieve them, short of an implausible single European army?

Unfortunately, the idea of providing and delivering so many drugs to so many people is logistically implausible.

Mr Correa was quick to claim the video was a "fabrication" . But that is implausible.

They will seize on any excuse for their failure in policy prescription, no matter how implausible.

A big rise in corporate investment in the US also seems implausible if the economy slows.

It was not implausible that one such breakthrough could enable a certain nation to dominate its rival.

Not only is it highly implausible, but if you ever do achieve a four hour work week, you'll probably want to get rid of it.

(Other fields of economics have not been deluded by this implausible idea and therefore do not face the same criticism. )

But even that is implausible because "Miss Lillian" was then not only very much alive but also quite unlike the Queen Mother.

the forecasts that supported the price appeared so heady as to be implausible;