Indeed, it is clear that ratings were ridiculously distorted.

Doing so would have cost them an estimated 1.3 billion, or roughly 0.01 of their GDP a ridiculously low price to pay for financial stability.

Broken, fallen over on this rock in the middle of March in 2000, typical Irish weather on a Wednesday gray, snot, tears everywhere, ridiculously self pitying.

With interest rates on government bonds in the US, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland at ridiculously low levels, investors are on a global quest for yield.

A simple order of an espresso in the morning is extended into a ridiculously long banter about the million different variations of beans and water that they offer.

My innocent dreams of teaching the villagers English or educating them about the world now seemed ridiculously naïve I soon learned that Africa is rife with hidden danger.

So people set about doing trials of these new drugs against the old drugs, but they gave the old drugs in ridiculously high doses 20 milligrams a day of haloperidol.

Economic gurus at places like the World Bank have developed a ridiculously long list of steps that countries should take to raise their growth rates (the so called extended Washington Consensus ).

The first thing I began to notice how many big concepts were emerging from the wisdom of crowds to smart mobs around how ridiculously easy it is to form groups for a purpose.

The text satirizes Kemerovo s Governor, placing him in absurd and embarrassing situations (his wife feeds him bugs and urine, he receives hate mail at work, and so on), and Tuleyev himself behaves ridiculously.

Wearing a ridiculously expensive watch to proclaim that one has achieved an elevated social standing seems especially immoral for a public official in a country where a significant portion of the population still lives in real poverty.

The first observation is something that you might think is quite obvious, and that's that our species, Homo sapiens, is actually really, really smart like, ridiculously smart like you're all doing things that no other species on the planet does right now.

And I was especially reminded of what an ridiculously short straw I had that day because now I had to do what Albert had just done, and there are like 100 of these lambs in the pen, and suddenly this whole thing's starting to feel like a German porno, and I'm like ...