This is laughable.

Such brazen corruption would be laughable if its effects were not so debilitating to the country.

The hypocritical and shameless attitude of this Government, which claims to be the champion of anti terrorism, is laughable.

So real parliaments and sham parliaments are treated as equals. The idea would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

The idea that a big government guaranteed global bank is needed to fill holes in private capital markets is laughable nowadays.

In most cases, however, the amounts received by women in the Niger are laughable, and there are differences from one financial institution to another.

Such hypocrisy would be laughable if global economic conditions weren t so dire that even countries that once swore never again to deal with the IMF have returned to its door, cap in hand.

The European Union's highly touted Lisbon Declaration of a few years ago, which proclaimed that Europe would become the world's most competitive region by 2010, appears laughable to Americans, whose productivity gains seem to scale new heights constantly.