Daniel Becnel, a Louisiana lawyer who is suing BP, said the new findings were "absolutely absurd".

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Home Office Minister Paul Boateng dismissed the suggestion that Lord Irvine had abused his role as "absolutely absurd".

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It's not the same scenario, I find it absolutely absurd.

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Mr Banks described as "absolutely absurd" suggestions that Mr Blair had withdrawn his active support from the bid, stating instead that he was behind it "one hundred and ten per cent".

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The patents in this case are absolutely absurd.

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He had been working at Hewlett Packard in their financial calculator group when he was approached by a young entrepreneur by the name of Steve Jobs with an offer to join a new company with an absolutely absurd name.

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By 2008 it will be consuming something like 0.3% of the GDP of the entire planet, and the idea that one person, however able they are, can actually deal with all the minutiae that go on in the NHS, absolutely everything from a bed pan dropping off a bed to a cancelled operation, is frankly absurd.

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