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Apparently McLennan's theory, plausible though it was, did not seem any too well established even to its author.

'What swayed people was there was no other plausible explanation' for who else might be hiding in the home, one U. S. official said.

What is out of reach, as it was at Copenhagen, is agreement on a plausible programme for keeping climate change in check.

It was no longer enough to be plausible in argument; one had to be convincing in action.

For my own sake, I've told a plausible lie at the club meeting, but the members did not believe me at all.

Economic behavior is always uncertain to the extent that we do not know all of its consequences with "plausible" probabilities.

Many concluded the only plausible scenario was that Mr. Strauss-Kahn was the victim of a set-up.

I've sat in on Chinese classes in poor neighborhoods, and I've seen how it compels students to see China as a plausible part of their lives.

The only plausible alternative involves the two conservative parties which presided over the build-up to crisis.

Those who know Mr Strauss-Kahn well say that this scenario is plausible only if he is virtually guaranteed the nomination.

There is a plausible theory of what it might be, and a reasonable chance of testing that theory to see if it is right.

A more plausible culprit for rising inequality seems to be technological progress (see chart below).

That might be true or at least plausible if, in order to have a basis, plagiarism would have to stand on some philosophical ground.

Most voters could not conceive of him as a plausible prime minister.

Bree: Well, the nurses at your office may start wondering why you're disappearing three times a week. Tennis lessons are a plausible alibi.

This is more than likely a combination of Duff's desire to leave and a journalist's need for a plausible club to link him to.

If, as seems plausible, the alternative is years of deflation and depression, some countries might choose to leave.

None of these assumptions seems all that plausible.

But it seems quite unlikely that any of these was an indoor temperature -- a particularly chilly breeze is a more plausible explanation.

"The only plausible scenario for a dollar crash" , Mr Eichengreen concludes, "is one in which we bring it upon ourselves. "

For an hour he thought over this plausible statement of the tangle. He wanted to tell them about his wife, but couldn't.

"It's highly plausible that some of these changes are a response to aggregation, to living in larger communities, " he said.

He trotted out a most plausible story, but most of us were inclined to doubt the truth of it.

If you would find out the truth of the matter, you must not be satisfied by explanations, however plausible and gratifying.

The question was: I said it seems plausible to say my soul is located, more or less, here because I seem to view the world from here.

At least, that seems to be the most plausible interpretation of Facebook's latest scheme, unveiled this week.

It begins to become plausible that we could detect it. A million times would be for sure, and 10, 000 times we might have a chance.

But growth in some parts of the world and not others is just as plausible as growth all over the place.

Investigators concluded that this was plausible, and Agassi was cleared of the charges.

Over the years people had been thinking about a problem on universe structure, but only recently had a plausible explanation been proposed.

None of these sound plausible to me as explanations for the extreme house price increases we have observed.

The future depicted in a good SF (Science Fiction) story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible.

At the moment, the most plausible way of making the sea absorb more of the gas is to seed it with iron.

Other plausible cuts, meanwhile, are either not large enough to alter the long-run deficit picture, or risk stalling the recovery.

Creating a false identity used to be simply a matter of forging a few documents and finding a plausible life story.

Salts also would suppress the water's freezing point, making it plausible that the dark, finger-like features were carved by liquid.

It's even more plausible, however, that if the authors' failed to foresee something, it was not the law-breakers but the laws themselves.

But what if your mother and I created an environment where you would grow up to have a more plausible career than your dad?

Knowing both its size and its mass, he was then able to calculate its density, and thus make a plausible guess about its composition.

The Duke had many of the most acclaimed virtues of his era: He was hard-working, patriotic, gruff and looked plausible on a horse.

Both the central bankers and the Germans hate this idea, but it's the only plausible way the euro might be saved.

It has become plausible, even tempting to investors, for him to cede the running of News Corporation to his children.

The only plausible candidate for that something is natural selection to fit particular niches.

I told him I couldn't think of any reason why antimatter wasn't a plausible explanation.

In financial markets, there is also a plausible explanation for summer crises -- or at least why they have such a profound impact.

Both ideas sound plausible and there was no way of telling in advance who was right.

He was one of those plausible salesmen.

In short, given a training set, there are always at least two equally plausible, but totally opposite, generalizations that could be made.

If unemployment does head up, the bank's message will seem more plausible.

As plausible as it may sound, such an explanation is markedly different from anything your correspondent has experienced.

and voters in debt-laden nations need to see a plausible path out of the present trap.

A spokeswoman for Dr Kissinger said that "he has no precise recollection but that the Freeman version seems much more plausible" .

Yet a more plausible reading is that this is the last gasp of a union movement that faces a changed political outlook in France.

They trot out a plausible theory with computer models to go with it.

And China's sheer size makes it a more plausible challenger than a relatively small nation, such as Japan.

Its next job will be to come up with a plausible presidential candidate, capable of communicating with ordinary Venezuelans.

Once you've been listening to him for long enough, it all starts to seem vaguely plausible.

The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it, and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species.

A copper fin Ukraine, can be considered a cover. Color seems a bit old, the first mouth fairly plausible, pigeons main 100, the public.

But this claim, though inherently speculative, turns out to be scientifically plausible.

But America has stuck with him because all the plausible alternatives seem worse .

But is the idea of countries marching to battle to get water, or to defend it, really plausible?

After the Japanese experience, such cavalier dismissal of the intrinsic problems of nuclear power is no longer plausible.

"Our research offers a plausible explanation for why some sperm malfunction, " he said.

The suggestion that sex's gene shuffling makes us more able to deal with changing environments seems plausible, but the evidence is scarce.

The capacity to destroy proved difficult to translate into a plausible threat even against countries with no capacity for retaliation .

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

That archenemy , the devil, is a liar from the beginning; but he is so very plausible that, like mother Eve, we are led to believe him.

There is always a plausible-sounding reason for the fights that Singapore's neighbours pick with it.

But the very severity of that decline made an industrial revival one plausible motor of the overall recovery.

It's a bit more plausible to say that they're strong like a big sprawling semilegal favela is strong.

Both have their pros and cons, both seem plausible enough to me, and both explain how Hagrid could see Harry when he came to take him away.

But economies are still far below peak levels of activity and also below almost any plausible estimate of the long-term trend (see chart).

Infiltration model is divided into two categories: one is the concept of Plausible Reasoning in the penetration mode of teaching.

Other plausible explanations revolve around the potential for "substitutes" for formal insurance contracts that serve to limit demand.

But at least a plausible qualification can be demonstrated.

Imagining anything worse would be tricky politically; it also goes beyond what most officials view as a plausible worst-case scenario.

The brave new world of 21st-century finance (like the "new economy" of the 1990s) provides a vaguely plausible means of avoiding anxiety.

Normally, when a disaster strikes, whether man-made or natural, we begin with a range of theories, some less plausible than others.

Sheldon: I believe they engaged in coitus but more importantly, if Leonard had not abandoned his story, would you have found it plausible?

The researchers also found a plausible biological explanation for their results.

There is no plausible expectation that Assad will lead a process of reform, one that inevitably forces him and his cronies out of business.

There is only one plausible route out of this appalling situation.

Indeed, in the U. S. case, some calculations suggest the pledge may amount to the commitment to do nothing, which sounds all too plausible.

She could find no plausible explanation for the disappearance of the money in the locked safe.

The predicted collision was always fanciful, not least because Beijing and Moscow are more plausible strategic rivals than allies.

The result would be government by committee, a recipe for further deadlock, but perhaps the least bad plausible outcome.

The book that offers a plausible scenario for that has yet to be written.

They pose plausible reasons why it might be in the self-interest of foreign officials to do so.

Plausible hypothesis This might be a plausible hypothesis were it not for two factors.

Quite plausible, Held replies, saying that natural variability may have been underestimated in the rapid warming of the last 30 years.

And China's sheer size makes it a more plausible challenger than a somewhfound on small nine- such as Japan.

By sending him out there on a plausible fool's errand, it keeps the heat off of us while we engage in the business at hand.

Other experts said the new concept is plausible, but more work is needed before they are convinced.

Tony Stark has a particle accelerator in his home, but just how plausible is such a build?

Minka Kelly's stunning looks and impressive acting abilities make her a plausible choice for the role.

"How are you? " he said, extending his hand with an evident mixture of feeling and a lack of plausible interest.

Now that we are living with the implosion of the financial system, this view is no longer plausible.

With a little less gumption and a lot less gearing, "Dubai is plausible" .

Arena is now short both of cash and of plausible presidential contenders.

Manetho's claim that Moses was an Egyptian is quite plausible.

She has reconstructed what she believes to be a plausible account of Cleopatra's death.

If the job pays less than what you previously made, respond with a plausible reason for accepting it.

It would take too long, and carry us too far from our main point, to examine every absurdity concealed in this plausible statement.

They then selected the one that was more plausible for use in computation, and showed it could produce an MIS with high probability.

This didn't look plausible to me, so I dug into a few dictionaries.

From then on, if you go through this door, you are in Wonderland , where everything is possible, just not very plausible.

A career path presents the steps in a possible career and a plausible timetable to accomplish them.

This may be considered a mistake in hindsight, but it was plausible at the time.

The utopia part certainly seems plausible. Whether Mao would have approved is a bit more in doubt.

But that is not the only EU on offer: a corporatist, cosy, populist union sounds very plausible to Europe's ageing, anxious voters.

We were all taken in by her plausible manner.

However, a lack of experience with such vehicles hampered the finishing of a plausible design - even on paper!

The reader may accept the result as plausible or he may study the subject further on his own.

The increased trust between the Cold War adversaries makes diplomatic solutions over Germany increasingly plausible.

He says large-scale unilateral geoengineering is "not very plausible" and his main concern is fairness to future generations.

Of these three possibilities the last seems the most plausible.

Beyond that smoothly plausible piece of textbook economics, the messy details also point in favour of leasing arrangements.

He cast about in his mind for some plausible excuse for not turning up at the meeting.

This can only be a guess, but it is more plausible than the alternative guess that America's going will nudge Iraq in the right direction.

"This is a plausible model for the formation of the bright tracks on Mars, " he said.

Once the extra dimensions of M theory have curled up, particle physics provides a plausible understanding of how the universe evolved.

Washington, DC, looks a more plausible candidate for that.

That sounds like a plausible explanation; but to Tammy and others like her, it might equally be an angel passing.

The American dream is most plausible during the periods of productivity and wealth generated by American capitalism.

Moving on to the White House in 2012 will require more than alighting on a plausible candidate.

Two patients with a plausible diagnosis of central nervous system graft-versus-host disease (CNS-GVHD) are described.

The first explanation is not plausible: more than five years had passed between the invasion and the decisive battle at Gaugamela.

His biggest failure, however, is his inability articulate a plausible alternative to the system he loathes.

Scientists have yet to pinpoint the mechanisms involved but have come up with several plausible explanations.

Some of it is plausible but none of it is definite.

But with the government out of the executive suite and Merrill delivering solid results, he will bequeath a bank with a plausible future.

His biggest failure, however, is his inability to articulate a plausible alternative to the system he loathes.

The system is also unfair to defendants with plausible claims of prejudicial error in their trials or sentencing proceedings.

That makes pricey television advertising the only plausible means to reach voters.

Until, that is, everything became urgent: my test results suddenly took a turn for the worse and surgery became the only plausible option.

In truth, graphene does look a more plausible candidate for commercialisation than buckminsterfullerene.

However, such a plausible ideal and theory cannot solve the problem in life.

Under certain emergency circumstances there may be a plausible argument for this, the merits of which we need not examine here.

Preaching aside, his key point is sound: neither right nor left has any longer a plausible story to tell about the state.

This study was not without limitations, but is plausible in the light of other evidence.

To be an equal partner, it has to be a plausible match for German power.

What is out of reach, as at Copenhagen, is agreement on a plausible programme for keeping climate change in check.

What they've found here is a correlation and a correlation with a plausible explanation.

But pushing the system beyond its technical capacity and cutting corners to free up slush money are plausible factors.

It's also plausible that understanding effective neutralization by powerful antibodies may be useful in vaccine development.

Kaos says it performed research and consulted with a former CIA field officer to ensure this fiction was plausible.

The plausible answer must be: a while yet.

Taken individually their exit plans look plausible; collectively, they look like a nightmare.

Voters regard Mr McCain, who advocated the surge in Iraq before it was fashionable, as the more plausible commander-in-chief.

It is far easier to dispose of a dictator and build a plausible democratic structure than to build a genuinely pluralist culture.

How plausible are the numerous "rags-to-riches" stories put about by the tycoons and their fawning publicists?

The trouble, of course, is that none of these alternatives seem politically plausible.

"He's demonstrated the phenomena exists and it's plausible, " he said.

Each begins with a plausible bullish story, which is magnified by the financial markets, manufacturing an inevitable bubble.

Both cities have plausible bids, which means the decision is likely to be contested.

This all sounds plausible. But Mr Darling failed to explain how those varying capital requirements will be assessed and applied.

This, at any rate, is the core of a popular and superficially plausible thesisadvanced by Professors Jerome Wake-field and Alan Horwitz.

Writing in the journal Nature, the experts said they believed migration from Asia to be the most plausible theory.

The authors suggest that there are plausible biological explanations for a link between gallstones and the midriff bulge.

He thought he'd heard it was a rich dentist, which was plausible since doctors often dabbled in trading.

The conclusions seem at least plausible.

Lengthy investigations revealed a single plausible layout which, although logical in its inception is unconventional in nature.

Since the election turned on 120, 000 votes in Ohio, it is plausible Mr bin Laden was able to affect the election.

"Entirely plausible" , says a western diplomat in Cairo, as he sips his coffee.

Second, the cost of meeting the added burden of ageing is far higher than any plausible cost of the crisis.

The idea that Sky News will be turned into a Murdoch mouthpiece is scarcely more plausible.

On the surface this looks plausible.

We're definitely nearing the turning point and a crash is a remote but plausible possibility.

If George seemed taken aback by the invitation for "coffee" , his lady friend would have retained plausible deniability.

You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Almost all the plausible Republican candidates for the presidential nomination say they support the bill.

Armed with these pieces of the puzzle, we could construct a plausible sequence of migrations throughout the history of Felidae.

This negative view dismisses alternative plausible motivations beyond self-interest and beyond rational calculation of self-serving ends.

A joint venture with AOL (owned by TimeWarner) is plausible, were it possible to agree terms for the two internet groups' respective assets.

The only plausible routes to "energy security" lie at home in the US - in the development of new technologies and in a change of lifestyles.

If you have no other gaps on your resume and have been working continually for a lengthy period of time, this is quite plausible.

The present review deals with the chemistry and thermolysis of NTO and plausible decomposition pathways have been described.

Mr Jackson was a more plausible candidate two decades ago, but both men now sound stale.

The most plausible explanation involves electrical currents along the magnetic field lines.

A critical revision of a text incorporating the most plausible elements found in varying sources.

If this benefit is greater than a plausible estimate of the efficiency savings from the merger, then it should be halted.

Recent developments in particle physics have uncovered other theoretically plausible dark matter candidates.

A model which combines the advantages of equilibrium models and logical systems would be more plausible and, perhaps, more useful.

But plenty of the humour comes from situations that are uncomfortably plausible.

The American intervention in the Balkan affairs seems plausible, but it is a typical American hegemonic behavior.

The 47 million-year-old remains of a plausible human ancestor, with structural details still intact, can teach us an enormous amount.

That in turn would make a "no sovereign default" assumption in other countries' tests more plausible.

but since they are not, virtually any "plausible" statistical analysis can serve as a "theoretical" explanation of security prices.

States like China and Russia now encourage groups of freelance hackers to do their dirty work, allowing plausible deniability.

While western politicians routinely worry about globalisation, they have yet to focus on a more plausible threat.

Many top class players like Sampdoria and a deal is entirely plausible, so never say never.

Plausible candidates for the presidency could use television exposure to demonstrate their popular appeal.

All plausible deals to do this involve both tax hikes (which Republicans oppose) and cuts to entitlements (which Democrats hate).

As the final whistle went tonight, the nerves that had gripped Barcelona before this game seemed barely plausible.

However pressing the need and urgency of the problem one should not procede without a plausible plan.

But they will have to come up with a more plausible plan.

More research is clearly needed, including a replication of the original empathy findings, but the hypothesis is plausible.

Even if you grant that the Singularity is plausible, you're still staring at a thicket of unanswerable questions.

A few of them have plausible justifications. Some of them lack even that.

Induction is plausible in the same sense that the Least Integer Axiom is plausible.

I read carefully through the descriptions, looking for anything that sounded familiar, let alone plausible.

That China could even have a plausible claim to such a thing is a remarkable turnaround.

Of course, what seems a credible plan to a government may appear less plausible to an agency.

"There is no other plausible explanation, " said Yoon Duk-yong, joint head of the investigative team.

Mr Adler fingers another man for the murder and advances three plausible reasons for Hill's refusal to take the witness stand.

There are plenty of plausible explanations for this disparity, from interruptions to women's careers to old-fashioned discrimination.

Technicalities aside, the most plausible explanation for the steep yield curve is the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy.

Several explanations have been offered for this, some more plausible than others.

Once you have gathered all of the available evidence, you can take the last step: adopt the best, most plausible interpretation.

This behavior makes it plausible to imagine a fisherman being struck and knocked unconscious by a frantic arapaima.

A theory is a widely accepted, plausible generalization about fundamental concepts in science that explain why things happen.

Make the scenarios more concrete by fleshing them out into imaginary, but plausible, news stories that are emblematic of the forces at play.

However, plague outbreaks following use of a biological weapon are a plausible threat.

Would quantitative easing offset this? The plausible answer is: no.

It does, however, point out the dangers of taking even logically plausible ideas on trust, rather than testing them.

Fake drowning is thought to be the most common method of pseudocide because it makes the absence of a body seem more plausible.

It is then theoretically plausible to use "product groups" as a basis for the demarcation of industries.

Perhaps because no other motivation seems as plausible to an audience as a reason to kill oneself.

This means that any learning algorithm requires some kind of "bias" to distinguish between these plausible outcomes.

A more plausible solution can be based on suitable model transformations that make the existing modelling approaches interoperable.

But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

However, is the assumption that weather does not influence the demand curve plausible?

If the market is too fragmented (see chart 2), consolidation is the only plausible cure.

In other words, the more plausible a story, film, or animation, the more engaging it will be to its audience.

Again, the debt overhang would be huge, under any plausible assumptions.

But he needs more than a plausible bedside manner to reassure patients and professionals alike that his proposals will be therapeutic.

It seems quite plausible but actually as it stands this argument is fallacious.

To make that look more plausible after the no votes, it was also noted that elections were due in 2007 in both France and the Netherlands.

what it might be. Its formal order both reflects and promotes plausible ideas of social, philosophical and urban order.

It boasts a famous brand name, a smart founder and a plausible business model.

Again, by this back-of-the-envelope calculation, President Hu's big claim looks quite plausible.

They like to maintain some kind of plausible deniability, not necessarily be tied to spectacular terrorist plots.

As recently as a few months ago, it seemed quite plausible.

There is only one plausible explanation. Earth is being quarantined!

Assuming these findings extend to neurons, they provide a plausible mechanism for herpes simplex encephalitis.

The theory seems plausible for platypuses, which are amphibious creatures. Echidnas, however, dwell solely on land.

I examined a plausible, real world-based scenario to use as a basis for developing a high-level business description.

That seems more plausible to me than the argument that I was a helpless victim of Arby's.

The only plausible explanation is that companies use them simply because others do; no one dares be odd one out.

Yet it's very plausible to assume the movie's basic premise had an influence on Dennis's experiment.

We now wonder at their gullibility but two things made him plausible.

It is plausible that inscriptions in the Canaanite language incorporated some geographic and religious phrases that originated in Arabic.

Mr Yang and Ms Decker have put forward plausible plans to address all of these issues.

That leaves Republicans with few plausible targets in the Democratic congressional delegation.

He was a grey-haired man, with a plausible voice and careful manners.

Yet for now, all plausible alternatives to the U. S. dollar lack liquidity and, in some cases, convertibility.

An equally plausible explanation is that the war is the product of a mistake.

That this is true of emerging countries seems plausible.

A more plausible excuse is that the banking- induced recession permanently reduced the productive capacity of the economy.