Today, that argument makes little sense.

(b) Leads to a result which is manifestly absurd or unreasonable.

(b) Leads to a result which is manifestly absurd or unreasonable.

The idea seems counterintuitive How can less produce more?

That answer is decidedly counterintuitive and hence easy to reject.

Merkel s kill to cure remedy has run up against reality and democracy.

But they don t bear all the blame for the past, and are not behaving completely irrationally.

In this ruling the Supreme Court, by a majority, held that new laws authorizing capital punishment were not unconstitutional.

Some of the most respected banks have been exposed as perpetrators of moral fraud hence the demand for a new regulatory framework.

Though Bashir may be able to avoid arrest simply by limiting his international travel, the commotion provoked by the indictment is not irrational.

(g) Abuse of right to submit a communication This criterion excludes those communications which the treaty body determines as contrary to the object and purpose of the respective convention

During the hearing Greste told the judge The idea that I could have an association with the Muslim Brotherhood is frankly preposterous.

This system wide responsiveness depends on economic agents having perfect information about the future, which is manifestly absurd.

The forces of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich foolishly stuffed ballots and intimidated the country s electoral commission to an absurd degree.

Contrary to Simonds, Vöneky argues that treaties aimed at the protection of a common good may continue to apply during armed conflict notwithstanding an incompatibility with the armed conflict.

Prostitution is an antisocial phenomenon and, as experience in the fight against it shows, is directly related to the economic difficulties of the post conflict period.

Stressing that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States,

Turning to the different categories of reservations, the Special Rapporteur recalled that dispute settlement clauses had been consistently found to be not contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty in the case law of the International Court of Justice.

The fight against terrorism should not be viewed in terms of police repression alone nor should it result in absurd, indiscriminate deaths similar to those caused by terrorism itself.

Gravely concerned that, in some instances, national security and counter terrorism legislation and other measures have been misused to target human rights defenders or have hindered their work and safety in a manner contrary to international law,

Such opposition seems counter intuitive, given that the ECB s mere announcement of the OMT program calmed sovereign debt markets and reduced borrowing costs in peripheral countries.

However, the Committee considers that the author's complaints were not sufficiently substantiated to be able to conclude that he was subjected to treatment that was in violation of articles 7 and 10 of the Covenant, which therefore leads it to consider the communication inadmissible under article 2 of the Optional Protocol.

This is undoubtedly to the good, and necessary to the conduct of orderly democratic life but to those not used to it, the ability to combine enmity with bonhomie can seem counterintuitive.

In doing so, the US embarked on a preposterous grand strategy that aimed no less at simultaneously dismantling Iraq s tyrannical regime, restructuring the entire Middle East, destroying al Qaeda, and helping democracy to take root throughout the Arab world.

Groups of fighters for the revolution in reality, the Cuban secret police brutally attack their political opponents and accuse them of absurd crimes in an effort to intimidate them or to force them to emigrate.

According to resolution 1455 (2003) reports, the top seven remittance receiving States in 2001, as identified by the World Bank, with the exception of one, were silent on alternative remittances or whether unregistered systems were illegal.

In particular, for protecting the current owners of property that is subject to a restitution claim, the Act stipulated that the current owner had to surrender property only if he she had obtained said property in breach of the laws then in force or if he she had obtained it through unlawful preferential treatment.

That is the conclusion, perhaps counterintuitive, that the Squam Lake Group http squamlakegroup.org , a think tank of 15 academic financial economists to which I belong, reached in our recently published report,Fixing the Financial System.