Compared with America, where bail bondsmen, bounty hunters and licensed private dicks all make plausible heroes, the choices for a British crime writer are limited.
The administration has been able to make a plausible case that the armed forces are making progress.
Mr Yumashev would not make a plausible regent even if he wanted to.
Yet they also make a plausible claim to Islamicity on the basis of the letter, if not the spirit, of Islamic finance.
In many of these cases I can make a plausible argument that the government activities in question can be justified under a strict libertarian conception of the role of government.
Economic issues are often even trickier today: it is usually easy, with the aid of modern developments in economic theory, to make a plausible case both for and against any alleged monopoly.
Given this history, the court affirmed that individuals who can make a plausible case they have been injured by a law passed in violation of the powers granted to Congress under the Constitution, can sue under the 10th Amendment.
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The ultimate goal, of course, is to let astronomers make a plausible estimate of the total number of planets in the galaxy, of the number that could conceivably support life, and of the fraction of those that could (at least in theory) sustain human colonists.
Significantly, and perhaps unlike other leading favorite-son and -daughter candidates, Gephardt can make a plausible claim of being able to specifically help Kerry in a second pivotal "red state" as well: With his strong union ties, Gephardt may be able to help Kerry secure critical additional votes in Ohio where more than 16 percent of the electorate belongs to a union, compared to 13 percent union membership nationwide.
Here, for a change, Messrs Feldstein and Samwick make the more plausible assumption.
It seems possible to make a perfectly plausible case either way.
These attributes may make Gingrich the most plausible candidate to stand toe-to-toe with Romney in the spring of 2012.
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Nonetheless, when the war effort went bad administration critics began to allege all sorts of contractor abuses, and there were just enough Blackwaters in-theater to make the charges seem plausible.
It's simply the human instinct to seek links and fill in the details of a plausible story to make it whole and coherent.
Does the sharp fall in commodity prices on May 5th make any of these stories more plausible than the others?
Used to be that an analyst could make a good living by putting out plausible earnings forecasts and taking care not to offend any of his employer's investment banking clients.
In fact, since the intelligence officer -- or officers -- were using "official cover" as diplomats at the Iraqi Embassy in Prague, the meetings could make Iraqi involvement in the plot less plausible rather than more.
Such was their apparent understanding of human pathophysiology that they were usually able to offer plausible, immediate explanations of anything, make a rapid assessment, and move on.
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Trying to make my fiction "real" radically shrank the field of plausible story scenarios.
The plausible reason lies in America's institutions which make it easier to prosper in an honest way.
His own conclusion, for which he nonetheless provides plausible reasons, is that our imaginations will never fully make the adjustment.
Until you can think of some plausible reason to skip the myriad of holiday gatherings, prepare yourself to make more idle chatter.
Back then, investors believed they could make money by buying companies listed on the Nasdaq, even those that had no plausible way of making money.
State regulators are generally giving their approval, although environmentalists are warning that cutting down trees to make it work is a no-no and that using wood waste or scraps is a more plausible option.
As for plausible deniability, the CBS report is clear that the White House and State Department did not make those changes.
The idea is to imagine the future, specifically as relates to technology and how people use it, create plausible scenarios that might actually come about as technology develops, and then figure out how to make them happen.
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