To say that rice is worse than sugar is simply ludicrous.

From a German point of view, this discussion is a ludicrous inversion of the truth.

Or perhaps the dividing line should be between propositions that depend on reasonable behavioral assumptions and those that depend on ludicrous ones.

Yes, things could and should have been done better but to single out Fed governors for missing the coming catastrophe is ludicrous.

I vividly remember the slightly ludicrous, slightly risqué, and somewhat distressing predicament in which Western diplomats in Prague found themselves during the Cold War.

It is even more ludicrous to extend the sovereignty notion to viruses that, like flu, can be carried across international borders by migratory birds.

And I'm telling you, I actually testified at the Senate about the absolute ludicrous idea that we would actually evacuate, and actually have three or four days' warning.

Interestingly, he is urging European banks to invest in Iran, making the ludicrous claim that this would undermine the Revolutionary Guard, which by some estimates controls up to half of Iran s economy.

This approach accounts for the failure of Dmitri Kozak s plan for resolving the situation in Moldova s breakaway Trans Dniester region, as well as for the ludicrous state of affairs that has arisen in Georgia s separatist Abkhazia region.

It is ludicrous to believe that US Secretary of State John Kerry s offhand comment about destroying Syria s chemical weapons stockpile was anything but a well choreographed opening for Russia to make its diplomatic play, thereby letting the US off the hook.

Yet it is ludicrous to think that Euroskeptics represent a silent majority that could rise up and destroy the EU. Popular support for the European project has barely faltered over the last 25 years, and has even begun to strengthen of late.

Yet it is ludicrous to think that Euroskeptics represent a silent majority that could rise up and destroy the EU. Popular support for the European project has barely faltered over the last 25 years, and has even begun to strengthen of late.

They claimed that scientists were fabricating evidence in order to obtain government research grants a ludicrous accusation, I thought at the time, given that the scientists under attack have devoted their lives to finding the truth, and have certainly not become rich relative to their peers in finance and business.