There are plausible reasons for enacting such a law.

Is this plausible?

It sounded plausible.

That assumption appeared plausible.

This is not plausible.

There are plenty of plausible explanations.

But the link certainly is plausible.

Each of the world s major central banks can make plausible arguments for caution.

Here, the plausible passengers are southern European firms.

The association may be spurious, but is plausible.

That vision is more plausible than one might think.

But Syria s fragmentation is not the only plausible scenario.

Don't buy it. Perfectly plausible story is slowly emerging.

Thatcherism emerged as the most plausible alternative to state socialism.

This is now, and the idea looks a lot less plausible.

How plausible is this argument? Can benign regulation really be bought?

It is entirely plausible that Thaksin did help finance the protest.

When such aspirations seem plausible, the system gains added democratic support.

In the absence of plausible alternatives, one hopes that this will also be the case for Israelis and Palestinians.

Incidentally, it is plausible that the cyclical behavior of the SWFs is responsible for the underperformance of their holdings.

For those who have had a couple of lessons in the Quantity Theory of Money, this seems a plausible conclusion.

In sum, the only plausible reason for concealing the information was to avoid inconvenience and embarrassment to the State party.

Today there are two plausible ways to proceed against a deposed tyrant.

The 1929 crash had no obvious cause, but two very plausible solutions.

Surely, a similar restructuring is the most plausible scenario in Europe as well.

But MEPs then failed to propose a plausible female alternative, leaving the ECB understaffed for weeks during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

Thus Candide derides optimism, for instance, with a deluge of horrible, historical (or at least plausible) events with no apparent redeeming qualities.

So, here is the problem there isn t a plausible driver of a dramatic recovery.

But is it plausible to raise taxes in the face of such sustained low growth?

The only plausible cause is the ever warmer tropical seas on which such storms thrive.

It seems plausible that two years is long enough for retraining, after which the employee might command a higher wage without a government subsidy.

But the Chinese have another argument up their sleeve, which seems more plausible (and more modern).

That leads to a second and more plausible explanation, which is psychological and behavioral in character.

But, as plausible as this line of reasoning may sound, the historical evidence repeatedly refutes it.

The model called for the collection of pertinent information leading to a plausible case of arms embargo violations, under the circumstances of the Group's investigations.

It is rare in history that such widely different but plausible paths stem from a common point.

The only plausible explanation is that tailor made derivatives can facilitate tax avoidance and manipulation of earnings.

Yet the findings may be useful to lawmakers even today for example, in assigning priorities among several plausible initiatives, or in identifying new possibilities for policy interventions that deserve further study.

Both President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair urgently need a plausible exit strategy from Iraq.

Over a quarter century ago, I showed that, under plausible conditions, trade liberalization could make everyone worse off.

And in a more subtle way, I think, this works for all of the veiled speech acts involving plausible deniability the bribes, threats, propositions, solicitations and so on.

Why does Africa remain poor? Civil war, famine, disease, the legacy of colonialism all have been advanced as plausible reasons for the continent's grinding poverty and economic backwardness.

EDMONTON Calm discussion of the environment nowadays is about as plausible as reasoned dialogue on witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.

Under two plausible scenarios both concerning China the unwinding of global imbalances could cause regional if not global depression.

These are all plausible scenarios. But at least four factors could push the dollar euro exchange rate the other way.