"The southern scenario seems more plausible," a US official said.
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A disheveled organizational structure is another, perhaps more plausible explanation.
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There are less flattering reasons that seem much more plausible.
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It's subtler — and that makes it a lot more plausible.
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It's certainly a more plausible theory than the one advanced.
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A more plausible explanation lay in his nascent presidential aspirations.
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There are many other, more plausible explanations for the findings.
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People said that to make it more plausible for voters.
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He is becoming more and more plausible as a potential nominee.
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In a way, relying on the cloud makes Yeti more plausible.
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This theory gets more plausible the more you think about it.
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The reality In this case, science offers a more plausible explanation.
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The car accident theory is starting to sound more plausible now.
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That is somewhat more plausible but it, too, is a stretch.
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The more plausible explanation is that Avis Budget simply messed up.
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We'll leave you to decide which of those sounds more plausible.
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That's made it more plausible to keep software-related innovations secret.
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When you have just lived through one trauma, another seems more plausible.
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In today's political climate, state-level retraining programs seem much more plausible.
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It was more plausible to create emotional barriers at the old site.
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They say the chances of a hike in December is more plausible.
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A more plausible vision involves the slow dissolution of the United States.
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Sanders's version is actually more plausible than the one others have articulated.
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And, yet, this scenario is more plausible now than many may think.
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So what would a more plausible yet still positive deal look like?
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That seems more plausible than what people usually mean by civil war.
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Huxley believed that his version of dystopia was the more plausible one.
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But, as Peters shows, at least 3C is more plausible than 5C.
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And the more extreme the Republicans appear the more plausible Sanders becomes.
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Something closer to 7.5 million or 8 million is looking more plausible.
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However, consistent overuse of U.S. economic power has made the unthinkable more plausible.
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But there are much more plausible explanations that haven't yet been ruled out.
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And the causes are based on different theories, some more plausible than others.
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And the open questions make the film more plausible than heavy exposition would.
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And before you stop reading: It's a lot more plausible than you'd think.
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Which theory is more plausible, based on how DOJ and the FBI operate?
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Would this matter less if his proposed film sounded better or more plausible?
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But their mere existence made Dr. Russell's dystopian vision a bit more plausible.
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Trump's impeachment, it seemed, was more plausible than ever—his downfall within reach.
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The more people get in, the more plausible any scenario starts to seem.
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More plausible, perhaps, is the idea that financial markets had overdone the deflationary fears.
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Every time a lie is repeated, it appears slightly more plausible to some people.
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The more you think about it the more plausible the whole thing sounds, too.
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Suppose, though, that the president were to announce a longer and more plausible timeframe.
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This possibility is, in many ways, far more terrifying, but perhaps even more plausible.
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And that means a shutdown grows more plausible -- if not likely -- by the day.
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And the revelation that family members were also affected makes this all sound more plausible.
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And the more plausible an implausible-sounding campaign becomes, the bigger the prospective field gets.
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All of these are certainly plausible theories, though perhaps some are more plausible than others.
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Tyrion worrying about Dany for political reasons seems more plausible, given what we've actually seen.
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A more plausible explanation is our relative inattention to the credibility of the news source.
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""It's much more plausible that you would just get fried by an orbiting laser weapon.
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If the Renault-Nissan tie-up hit the rocks, the deal looks even more plausible.
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Richard has never heard the mermaid connection, but she suggested a far more plausible idea.
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There are more plausible explanations for variations in Latin Americans' friendliness towards their northern neighbour.
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Some speculated that it was a Freudian slip, while others had a more plausible explanation.
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After Roe has been duly chipped away at, an outright reversal would look more plausible.
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The rest imagined something more plausible that they already feared, such as a Nazi blitzkrieg.
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The Republicans have a more plausible motive for encouraging the immigration caravan than Democrats have.
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A more plausible hypothesis is that the diplomats were exposed to some kind of toxin.
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A more plausible diagnosis is that the railway is suffering from financial and political neglect.
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In his mind, that's more plausible than working up the courage to talk to her.
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This looks more plausible because government procurement of services is frequently covered by trade deals.
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This coincidence across 93 million miles of space is more plausible than it might seem.
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And, crucially for tall passengers, the headrest adjusts upward, making in-flight naps more plausible.
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A more plausible charge is obstruction of justice–and here the President himself might be vulnerable.
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Which brings us to the second theory, which comes from Trump himself and is more plausible.
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That said, it's equally if not more plausible that she was replying to a text message.
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In any case it's more plausible to hypothesize that Brutus is simply very, very well trained.
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With those few clues, we delve into some of the more plausible and implausible fan theories.
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He could, but it would be no more plausible than a fish doing a tap dance.
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But the more I flirted with the dare, the more plausible Mr. Moore's dramatic speculation felt.
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Nor does floating the idea that China may participate make Mexico's costly proposal any more plausible.
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Here, even if you were unfamiliar with 62A, OH HENRY looks much more plausible than OAHENRY.
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However, she added that such risk is more plausible to come in 2019 than in 2018.
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A serious debt crisis for Italy is still only hypothetical, if more plausible now than before.
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It's the future, not the past, and it's a lot more plausible than we might like.
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The second, more plausible explanation is that a very dead Jason has a twin running around Riverdale.
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If we had seen a little more eros between them, their relationship would have been more plausible.
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A more plausible scenario would be to allow Gulf Arab allies to give the rebels more weapons.
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Another more plausible one suggests it's Taylor's voice, an isolated audio clip from an old home movie.
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"It's much more plausible that you would just get fried by an orbiting laser weapon," Caldeira noted.
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The development of NASA's long-delayed giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes that mission more plausible.
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But it's arguably a more plausible path to single-payer than passing single-payer in one go.
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At an individual level, it becomes even more plausible that many of these new extensions can grow.
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Droids Droids, short for androids, are one of the more plausible technologies in the "Star Wars" universe.
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That said, there are some more plausible, clever ways that the government could get around actually exiting.
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Though unlikely in the short-term, it seems more plausible than Brexit did just five years ago.
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The more plausible number is based on a set of sentencing guidelines, and it's usually much shorter.
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Besides making movies like Blade Runner more plausible, perfecting robots like Kengoro has plenty of real world value.
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Brad Sherman (D-CA) told reporters on Thursday evening, as the shutdown rapidly began to look more plausible.
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That's why it seemed more plausible than many of the frothy hunches brewing throughout Reddit and the Twittersphere.
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The drive would take several hours, but it's more plausible than if Riverdale was located in, say, Indiana.
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Instead they kept the focus on more plausible voices such as those of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.
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But it's on them to think of a more plausible way to restrict the credit to working people.
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That would make Uber's argument that surge pricing is needed to get drivers on the road more plausible.
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Thiel has a much more plausible path to achieving this through his support for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
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As noted, some of these scenarios are way more plausible than others — and they're not all mutually exclusive.
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The more plausible explanation is that Indian growth has returned to trend after a bout of political meddling.
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The idea seemed even more plausible when Trump pulled former Breitbart head Steve Bannon on to his campaign.
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Her accusation would seem far more plausible if the suicide theory actually put the zap on Jimmy's head.
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"I think it's much more plausible that the concern with inequality is driving support for Sanders," Grossmann says.
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Such shocking claims may have seemed more plausible because of the conduct of Mr. Trump and his advisers.
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But we're regularly asked by abusive men and their defenders to believe stories that aren't much more plausible.
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You'd probably be unwilling to discuss a sale unless the bidder came back with a more plausible number.
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That's a nation in which chaos is more plausible because the ability to make rational decisions is diminished.
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But as the slow recovery has continued year after year, his views have started to seem more plausible.
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Footage more mundane routines, like vacuuming or folding laundry, seems like it would be far more plausible and convincing.
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Ted Cruz sounds like he's laying it on too thick, Marco Rubio is more plausible as a Christian leader.
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If you need an early idea for a Halloween costume, Designer Forrest Gump just became a little more plausible.
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But it's more plausible that Azor Ahai chose diplomacy and peace to "defeat" the Others, rather than brute force.
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But Brooker does miss the chance to make this story more plausible by expanding its world even a little.
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Today's update will give Facebook more plausible deniability in the event of a scandal, and it might deter misuse.
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The more plausible reason behind this is in the most pervasive pre-streaming method of consuming rap: the mixtape.
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"It's much more plausible that Assad, who's used nerve agents in the past, is using them again," he said.
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A more plausible explanation emerged a few hours later when a local group affiliated with al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.
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One mystery solved, however: Reeves doesn't need the wheelchair, so lynching Crawford is now a more plausible solo job.
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Projected Wins: 69.5 Maybe this is a more plausible hypothetical mishap: Green breaks his hand punching someone or something.
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And, when you get right down to it, this is a much more plausible explanation than little green men.
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The oversimplified reasoning also ignores other more plausible theories as to why we might be seeing more food allergies.
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But by mentioning these hypothetical disaster situations, and prefacing her desires with them, her speech made them more plausible.
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This might have been more plausible in 2004, when expressions of queer identities were less visible and socially acceptable.
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But it seems more plausible to me that, like many of us, you aren't comfortable with floodlights of attention.
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The bigger the prospect field gets, the more plausible it sounds for more hats to be thrown in the ring.
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This seems more plausible than the thought that Erdogan orchestrated the coup to justify himself and further consolidate his power.
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Some results (such as the added smile) look generally more plausible than others (the aging effect is pretty obviously unreal).
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To British viewers, her policies might seem more plausible than another of her character's distinctive qualities: an unapologetically Mancunian accent.
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But now that Trump is making the speech coming directly from that border, that new focus suddenly becomes more plausible.
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A much more plausible reason for the demand for Bitcoin is that the price is going up rapidly (see chart).
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All of this makes the search for life elsewhere in the universe more exciting and more plausible than previously thought.
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But the reported existence of a hefty secret payment from Trump's team to Daniels makes all this appear more plausible.
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Irvine's team set out to see whether a more plausible geoengineering scheme might minimize negative impacts on the hydrologic cycle.
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A sequel to the eerie events that unfolded on the evening of October 203, 1973, looks more plausible every day.
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The pardon strategy became all the more plausible on Friday after the jury asked to suspend deliberations for the weekend.
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The more plausible scenario is the billiard ball model of international relations, with self-interested states competing against each other.
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Whether the past will come home to roost remains to be seen, but it has perhaps never been more plausible.
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It is more plausible that pigs had become infected in all of these places weeks before outbreaks were officially declared.
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While participating in the lesson, students will practice good sourcing and evaluate what makes one statement more plausible or reliable.
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This outcome looked much more plausible in the early months of the year, when immigration concerns saw Merkel lose support.
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Believe it or not that was a lot more plausible than this scene in Ad Astra, but fans hated it.
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And the explanations they would give as to why you do what you do would become much more plausible and predictive.
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The researchers sent visitors information based on what artwork they were looking at, but another, more plausible application is in supermarkets.
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Chase whipsawing between hating his dad and defending him seems more plausible than a lot of the relationships on this show.
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A more plausible explanation for the recent increase is anxiety about companies themselves exporting their entire inventories of customers' online activity.
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Those funds elevated the federal reimbursement level for Puerto Rico, from a pathetic 28503 percent, to a more plausible 22019 percent.
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But it's far more plausible that we might see the House pass a thousand different riders that change the agency significantly.
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This obsession with Flynn makes it more plausible that Trump is operating from a position not of ignorance, but of culpability.
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But there are reasons to believe that a shift toward road-pricing is not just increasingly urgent, but also more plausible.
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We are not mind-readers, but some other explanations come to mind that may be more plausible than the corporate speak.
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Whether or not this movie counts as science fiction, one thing's for sure: the fiction is more plausible than the science.
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When that's the mainstream right-wing alternative, a right-wing party that calls for expandingwelfare and health benefits seems more plausible.
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But a far more plausible interpretation is that he is using the religious right — to infiltrate, divide and weaken our country.
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The result is that the models can access more contextual information about each word and therefore make more plausible sentence predictions.
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Proposals for more effective and higher taxes on the rich and on corporations are more plausible in the current political environment.
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More plausible, perhaps, is that the homers are an outgrowth of baseball's statistical revolution and the logical concepts it has popularized.
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That is a more plausible explanation than anything about Maryland holding the line on prices, because that is just not happening.
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Wolves are hard to tame, even as puppies, and many researchers find it much more plausible that dogs, in effect, invented themselves.
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Since then, it has been pretty clear that the markets have been happiest when a deal with the EU looks more plausible.
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"They will be able to do a much more plausible denial if they have removed the old SDES stuff altogether," Hancke says.
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Reducing sonic booms to an acceptable level would allow overland flights, which should make the return of supersonic passenger travel more plausible.
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When that's the mainstream right-wing alternative, a right-wing party that calls for expanding welfare and health benefits seems more plausible.
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Luckily, as technology makes telecommuting more plausible, more fields are offering flexible positions that fit the needs of new moms and dads.
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Apply the same across a wide range of fields — industrial goods, pharmaceuticals and medicine, financial technology firms — and optimism becomes more plausible.
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But a more plausible, if conventional, argument might be that transitions in those instances were not only improbable, but not even advisable.
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If they hadn't reported the assaults when they happened, didn't that make it more plausible that there had never been any assault?
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A more plausible explanation is that cutting food stamps would help to offset the cost of huge tax cuts for the rich.
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A number of world leading experts told me that such a scenario might, in fact, be far more plausible than conventionally presumed.
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In Apple and Google's case below, it's becoming more plausible to use either company's most recent model as your sole portable device.
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Indeed, Amy Klobuchar would appear to possess far more plausible credentials as the candidate with the best chance to vanquish Mr. Trump.
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And as lawmakers get practice acting as a check on tech, regulation that once seemed highly unlikely suddenly seems somewhat more plausible.
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Softening the verdict on the Vichy regime, the historical ancestor of the French far right, would make such an alliance more plausible.
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I soothed this admittedly strange worry – that my favourite sitcom family could have been Trump supporters – by considering a more plausible outcome.
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But it is more plausible than it was yesterday, which is really scary when we're talking about conflict between nuclear-armed states.
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It's a lot more plausible than Kanye West developing DONDA-branded holograms, banks, healthy fast food, beauty products, and steamboats, that's for sure.
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All this said, big cuts in emissions seem more plausible now than they did in Paris, as the technology of renewable energy improves.
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"The Bialy and Loeb paper does not present good arguments for why solar radiation pressure would be a more plausible explanation," she said.
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A more plausible explanation is that more Mayans are on the minimum wage, which in recent years has risen faster than average earnings.
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It makes those arguments and proposals more plausible to U.S. taxpayers and their representatives, because most have an intuition that there's a problem.
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Mr. Trump's comments, by creating doubt even about American commitments, may make this outcome more plausible and thus, perhaps, more tempting for Moscow.
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The appearance of Leo's petulant ex-wife, Rita (Laura Linney), when he is briefly hospitalized after falling from a cab, seems more plausible.
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As recently minted master&aposs students who couldn&apost take much time away from work, that leaves Vermont as the more plausible option.
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This interpretation became even more plausible on Tuesday evening, when news broke that one of Trump's top economic advisers, Gary Cohn, was resigning.
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Conventional politics is very likely to beat Trump, and a rising tide of lawlessness is one of his more plausible routes to winning.
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It still doesn't mean that celebrities will have an easy path to politics, it just means that the path is a lot more plausible.
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New research suggests a planet isn't required to achieve the anomalous orbits, and that a massive ring of debris is a more plausible explanation.
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At least finding true love during a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical experience sounds a tad more plausible than conceiving an X-men baby.
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It seemed that small iPhones were destined to be a tech relic, but each passing rumors makes a small iPhone more and more plausible.
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The demand for direct air capture spurred by such a market might drive its costs low enough to make it a more plausible NET.
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The more he succeeds, the fewer complications for Facebook's expansion, the smaller its payroll, and the more plausible its positioning as a neutral platform.
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" Even though the book is funny, Russell says, "We have to laugh a little uneasily … Every day that future looks a little more plausible.
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A far more plausible scenario is a short cutoff in oil from the Gulf, causing a temporary spike to $150 per barrel of oil.
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Hacking seems far more plausible, particularly given the number of known vulnerabilities in popular blogging plugins likely to have been used on the site.
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Facebook's scale makes that future feel more plausible, no matter how much Zuckerberg and Dugan try to position the company as benevolent and compassionate.
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If the Trump organization was going to make the speechwriter the fall guy, it should have offered a more plausible explanation for what occurred.
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"Ultimate Beauty Bible" is a far more plausible affair, though the language is only a little less heightened and the barbs perhaps even sharper.
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Well, at least that sounds more plausible than earlier reports of Amazon wanting to buy Whole Foods, which is under pressure from activist Jana Partners.
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Turns out, the truth is stranger than fiction and writers have discarded real-life event as plot points to make the show seem more plausible.
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That seems even more plausible, given that the show never wore out its welcome by attempting to stretch the material past its natural end point.
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The anonymous sourcing of The Guardian article leaves several options, one of them much more plausible than the other considering what we know about FISC.
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I'd found it more plausible if she said the aliens are going to land on the White House lawn and take over the United States.
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What's more plausible is that the refugee Olympians will bust up a more sympathetic but pernicious stereotype: that refugees are passive victims of global circumstance.
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But, if there was a third-party ticket siphoning off, say 15 to 20% of the national vote, Trump's path to reelection becomes more plausible.
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It is more plausible that the bombs are being brought in from Diyala province to the east and from the south along the Tigris river.
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But the more plausible (and inevitable) exercise of Facebook's power would be basically unconscious — as, I suspect, any suppression of conservative stories may have been.
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Given Justice Kennedy's comments and the fact that Hawkes was a unanimous ruling, WOTUS opponents have a more plausible case that WOTUS has fatal flaws.
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The double never would have been easy, even with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) changing the Rio schedule to make it more plausible.
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Shares of Sprint and T-Mobile USA rose as the possibility of another attempt to merge the two appeared more plausible under a Trump administration.
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Trends toward sentencing reform in recent years have made a return to the outside more plausible than it once was, at least for some inmates.
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A far more plausible interpretation is that voters bought Sanders's message and then came to believe he was also the most trustworthy on this question.
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The Bolshevik vision of world revolution may now seem a utopian fantasy, but it appeared much more plausible in the aftermath of the Great War.
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The recent election of conservative leaders in key Latin American nations, including Brazil, Colombia and Chile, makes that prospect more plausible than in past years.
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Wouldn't it be more plausible for him to ask for a compromise for Tyrion as well, one that wouldn't essentially let him off scot-free?
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It would be desirable to have a more plausible interpretation of N.D.E.s which they are real in both senses: They really occur and they are accurate.
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It is important to mention that from a legal standpoint renewable long-term loans are currently the more plausible solution to the problem of the ownership.
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The reason Delaney — or a more plausible candidate like Bullock or Klobuchar — isn't doing better isn't that he can't win an argument with Warren and Sanders.
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Hearing her call out "Baby?" to an absent Bardem rings as much more plausible, much more painful, than watching J-Law's newborn get devoured by strangers.
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The next iPhone may be almost a year away, but one of the biggest rumors about the upcoming smartphone is now looking more plausible than ever.
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Of the two goals, colonising Mars and contributing to the greening of the Earth, the second sounds more plausible, not least because it is widely shared.
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And the more he dominates doing it, the more plausible it becomes to wonder whether Tapia is the sort of occasional oddity that shatters baseball stereotypes.
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A growing haul of primary and caucus wins — including Minnesota, Colorado and Washington — have made Sanders' once long-shot campaign seem more plausible in recent weeks.
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But it's only slightly more plausible than convention delegates locking Paul Ryan in a room and forcing him to change his mind about accepting the nomination.
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A more plausible analogy is the buffonish former prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, who fused lavish corruption, a lurid personal life, and right-wing populism.
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If it were correct, we'd all find gnomes, whose only distinguishing characteristics are diminutiveness, avarice, and a preference for living underground, considerably more plausible than ghosts.
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Hard graft and the unflinching support of a well-resourced program were the more plausible factors in their success, the Koreans all said in different ways.
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A member of the Shapiro team, John W. Ives of the University of Alberta, said its dating of the split in bison lineages was more plausible.
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Some Democrats have already argued that no nominee should be voted on before the midterms, and that argument may grow more plausible closer to Election Day.
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More plausible is that each pinprick penetrating Mr. Zuma's skin is felt by black South Africans, even those who are horrified by what he has done.
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It's more plausible that by raising expectations for a better life, the deal opened Iranians' eyes and made them less tolerant when the government fell short.
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For an author who has written more than one apocalypse in her career — and whose apocalyptic visions are growing ever more plausible — it's a hopeful move.
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And because Florida really has seen a rash of iguanas emerging from toilets, Zardulu's work fit with a larger narrative, which made it seem more plausible.
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And we know that false claims, if they're repeated enough, become more plausible the more often they're shared, something psychologists have called the "illusory truth" effect.
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It would have been more plausible if Sharapova had just said she was taking the drug for 10 years because it gave her an athletic edge.
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New Orleans, as a result, is facing the biggest possible issue: Scenarios that force them to trade The Brow grow more plausible by the day. 19.
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Colin Kaepernick isn't there yet, but the scenario is becoming more and more plausible as his San Francisco 235ers struggle to find any sort of offensive momentum.
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In 2017, what we learned essentially advanced the idea that the Trump campaign could have colluded with Russia from groundless speculation to something that's far more plausible.
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But the collaboration with sought-after employers makes it more plausible that they could eventually become established as a stand-alone testament to a job applicant's worth.
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As a template for bank shrinkage, this is in many ways more plausible than Sanders's explicit proposal, and it's clearly compatible with his rhetoric and his values.
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But surely a more plausible view is that a huge amount of the "expert" prediction with which we are constantly barraged, even when widely shared, is wrong.
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On the other hand, a reader who mostly hears that lawless deep-state operatives are hellbent on bringing down the Trump administration may find it more plausible.
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Although fragmented, the half-dozen right-wing parties including Likud still appear to have a more plausible path to a Knesset majority than any potential Gantz coalition.
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This is no more plausible on its face than the proposition that football players will tackle random people in the street because they tackle people in games.
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Reading this movie as a leftist treatise would seem a lot more plausible if we got the sense that anybody else was suffering like Arthur Fleck is.
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Though not as pleasant as the ice cream scenario, this outlook is far better (and far more plausible) than the ultra-pessimistic one with which you started.
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This gives them better internet connectivity and more plausible deniability of North Korean government ties, while still keeping them out of the reach of US law enforcement.
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But even the much more plausible Common Sense Caucus plan would've placed limits on familial migration by barring DACA recipients from sponsoring their parents for legal status.
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But given the way American politics works now, electing Sanders won't achieve that revolution, which is why many voters will stick to Clinton's more plausible politics of responsibility.
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We've heard rumors like that before, but this one just got a lot more plausible thanks to a cryptic tweet from Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.
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Suddenly, those patent filings seemed a lot more plausible, and now, a new report from The Verge gives even more credibility to the theory Andromeda might actually exist.
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Several conflicting theories currently describe the peopling of Americas, of which two are vastly more plausible than the others, according to new research published today in Science Advances.
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And while they are all a bit or a lot presumptuous in nature, they are much more plausible and popular than his earlier brashness on immigration and trade.
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The clickbait economy has trained readers to recognize shock and surprise as gauges of newsworthiness, and our increasingly surreal political universe has made conspiracy theories seem more plausible.
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If their case merely becomes more plausible (or if yields elsewhere prove disappointing), Argentina's bond prices are likely to rise, allowing their holders to sell at a profit.
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Moreover, a cure will probably involve intelligent combinations of remedies, and there are far more plausible regimens than there are patients available to test them in clinical trials.
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If you're going to work magic on your own body, becoming invisible seems more plausible than transmogrifying, perhaps because of the abundance of everyday ways to conceal ourselves.
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Conaway won't seek reelection: report MORE (R-Utah) in support of Puerto Rican statehood, full economic integration of the beleaguered semi-autonomous territory is more plausible than ever.
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A more plausible situation is that future people will haphazardly decide how they want to remember rock, and whatever they decide will dictate who is declared its architect.
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While that seemed more plausible than taking their image at face value, a certain youthful naivety and suburban Anglo ignorance reigned in the days before Google and Wikipedia.
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So job growth in the sub-200,000-a-month range seems a lot more plausible for the rest of 2019 — and yet more deceleration is a strong possibility.
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Hence the only other sensical hypothesis — namely, Trump's self-interest — which even conservatives need to admit has become much more plausible following Michael Cohen's guilty plea this week.
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" He called the idea of Zuckerberg running for president "silly," saying instead it's more plausible that the U.S. tour reflects the Facebook CEO's long-held "ruthless survival instinct.
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A more plausible view is that persistently low inflation shows the economy is more fragile than policy makers want to admit, and needs to be helped, not handicapped.
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The only answer I can think of is that something was lost in translation, something market-watchers have long suspected, and a lot more plausible considering Douds comments.
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It is more plausible that the first FISA surveillance was aborted because it was not turning up any useful intelligence about the Putin regime and its Ukrainian puppets.
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" A more plausible reading, he added, is that "justice is applied inconsistently and will be used to target parties and institutions that will then be unable to recover.
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A more plausible explanation may be that Barr is trying to deliver a simple message: 'Cool it: I'm doing your bidding, and your tweets make for bad optics.
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In this context, his rigid and often frustrating commitment to pacifism becomes more plausible — less a narcissistic moral code than an emotional tool for keeping it all together.
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Though these early Illuminati panics fizzled out, they gave the group a patina of legitimacy that, later on, would help make a centuries-long conspiracy seem more plausible.
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The more plausible scenario is Marvel using villains from former Fox-owned properties, like Galactus and Doctor Doom, in an upcoming movie sooner than the beloved superheroes themselves.
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Williams says that he believes the FAA decided to go after Haughwout for the flamethrower drone, in which it could have a more plausible "reckless flight" case against him.
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The revised cost would be "around $1.3 billion, something that's much more plausible for Myanmar's use", said Sean Turnell, economic advisor to Myanmar's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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I don't know whether that makes more plausible the latest timing call I heard last week that the next rate hike will be closer to Christmas than to September.
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It may help resolve whether Mr. Rubio's appeal to mainstream Republicans or Mr. Cruz's strength among evangelicals and conservative activists is the more plausible path to defeating Mr. Trump.
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Though higher costs in China might prompt some companies to move production back to the United States, a more plausible destination would be other emerging economies with lower costs.
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The more plausible explanation is that Trump doesn't have another mode of politicking, forcing him to bet that what worked in in a primary will work in the general.
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But in Palm Beach—once the training ground for the September 11 attackers, now a center for anti-Islamic hate groups—Howard's account was deemed more plausible than Muslet's.
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As Turkey and Syria continued to provoke each other last week, the prospect of a direct confrontation between Turkey, a NATO ally, and Russia looked more plausible than ever.
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A bookstore might be a more plausible way to pursue the freedom of ideas that he and hundreds of thousands of others had failed to win with public protest.
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Here, we are encouraged to believe, is the Jacqueline Kennedy—or, at any rate, a Jacqueline Kennedy more plausible and more knowable than any version we have seen hitherto.
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What's gotten a lot less attention in the press, however, is the more plausible notion that one could substantially alter the antitrust status quo without taking a leap that large.
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This one seems more plausible: Nintendo's announcement about discontinuing the console was very careful to specify "this year" as the scope, implying more Classic products could be on the way.
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And making it all the more plausible, the scam email is sent from compromised accounts and uses subject lines and file names that the target is likely to click on.
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Bulkhead Interactive and SUSPC7 are based in the UK, but in America, mass shootings have become regular occurrences, and threats of gun violence are more plausible and frightening than ever.
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In the new documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Danish director Mads Brügger investigates these theories, and in the process uncovers a very different, larger, more plausible, and much more horrifying conspiracy.
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But conspiracy theorists would probably find a more plausible explanation by looking through the rolodex of the convicted sex offenders's friends, which included Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew.
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As long as there is no good evidence, the more plausible scenario is a shrewd cover story to protect Turkish sources & methods—a cover story that would predictably go viral.
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The prospect of a shutdown seemed far more plausible a few weeks ago after Trump insisted that if Congress didn't fund his border wall, he would push for a shutdown.
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A more plausible line of defence is that presidents have wide latitude to guide foreign policy, and that quid pro quos happen all the time; foreign policy is always transactional.
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A Trump victory in November is more plausible now because it has an immediate precedent in a developed democracy ready to trash the status quo for the high-risk unknown.
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Many of the biggest funds have evolved beyond simply managing one portfolio and now offer a range of services, which makes it more plausible for a successor to take charge.
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But instead, scenarios like a limited missile strike from North Korea or an explosion of a 1- to 10-kiloton weapon built by terrorists seem more plausible to experts now.
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And if Ms. Nixon's goal feels more plausible in the Trump era — if a reality television star can be president, why can't a worldly and accomplished actor run a state?
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" He continued: "You see the signal, you see the flows, and that may be a more plausible explanation for the market move than the story of a company missing earnings.
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The risk of accidental inhalation is only slightly more plausible: Fentanyl can enter the bloodstream through the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth, but it is not easily aerosolized.
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But without being necessarily persuasive, they are more plausible now than 20 years ago, and they explain as much of the flirtation with post-liberalism as xenophobia or millennial ingratitude.
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Joshua Douglas, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, said Trump Jr.'s emails made it "more plausible" that there could be a criminal case against him.
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And the very real millions going to Trump are a much more plausible explanation of his friendliness toward Mohammed bin Salman than the mythical billions going to U.S. arms manufacturers.
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But aligning Democratic partisans around Obama's view is a more plausible goal, and, as we've seen, the dour mood extends well beyond the ranks of the GOP rank and file.
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Regardless of your views on whose theory is more plausible, though, Clinton's seems less inspiring and hopeful — which may help explain why Sanders seems to be winning young voters so overwhelmingly.
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But the last few months have made clear that what once looked like a long-shot bid by Democrats for the Senate majority has turned into a much more plausible possibility.
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For newcomers, a man-made takeover might seem a more plausible plotline, but we saw the (in many cases green-blooded) aliens in many and various forms over many, many episodes.
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Consumer groups, labor groups, a few environmental groups like the California Sierra Club, and a few wonks have raised alarms and warnings about California's regionalization plan, some more plausible than others.
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It's more plausible that we'd see government agencies adopt some elements of the proposals independently or for some of the proposed rules to pop up as bills in individual state legislatures.
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Suspicions that the company's payload adapter—a device that physically separates the satellite from the upper part of the rocket during deployment—is the part that failed now seem more plausible.
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But in its portrait of a declining hegemony, animated by a mixture of nostalgia and dread, I was surprised to find a much more plausible and complicated game than I remembered.
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Perhaps if Season 7 had been three episodes longer, as in previous years, the writers wouldn't have had to cut out swaths of context that might've made these twists more plausible.
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MILAN (Reuters) - The decision of U.S. asset manager BlackRock to pull out of the rescue of Italian troubled bank Carige makes state intervention more plausible, Moody's Investors Service said on Monday.
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However, while anxiety searches have continued their decade-long rise this year, there was no noticeable change in this trend as the prospect of Mr. Trump's actually winning became more plausible.
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A more plausible explanation, suggested by Parkland, is that public attention may remain on gun control over a prolonged period, even if there is no substantive national gun control legislation pending.
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"However, exposure to a tick carrying Borrelia in Great Britain is much more plausible than exposure to Chagas disease during his travel in South America," the authors wrote in the new study.
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But they've privately insisted that their faulty numbers originated with Bloom executives, per sources, which is made more plausible by how often Bloom changed what it told its own board of directors.
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Incidentally, James Ivory's film version of "Howards End" (1992), starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, makes the twisted plot and relationships of the story more plausible than Forster did in the novel.
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Google, whose cars have done 1.3m test miles (2.1m km) on public roads, once promised 2018, whereas most analysts reckoned the 2030s more plausible as carmakers introduced automated-driving features in stages.
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The OECD thinks these fundamental factors are more plausible explanations of the slowdown than mismeasurement, especially as the decline is both long-lasting and has affected emerging, as well as developed, economies.
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It helps that Union (who doubled as a producer) brings plenty of conviction to this thinly written exercise, which makes her heroics more plausible than they frankly have any right to be.
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Perhaps it was more plausible that a middle-aged woman in Chile several years ago had never heard of this recreational activity, but it is less likely in a modern American city.
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The Republican Party establishment has a bad case of Trump-Induced Terror these days, but there's an even more plausible candidate in the race who's running on an even more unelectable agenda.
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More plausible estimates from the Tax Policy Center or the Congressional Budget Office suggest increases in the wage rate ranging from near zero to only one-third of one percent in 2027.
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A more plausible explanation for the common finding that people use a series of recreational drugs is a general propensity for risk-taking behavior, of which drug use is just one manifestation.
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Back then, the notion that Shiffrin would chase medals in five Olympic events seemed more plausible because the races were evenly spaced across 12 days, not wedged into nine, action-packed days.
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A more plausible hypothesis might be that Friday the 13th itself doesn't cause bad luck, but it does lead people to behave differently out of fear or anxiety, thereby causing things like accidents.
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"With both those potential positive triggers having come and gone ... further real downside has become more plausible, also given the lower inflation print," they said, referring to January's inflation data released on Friday.
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According to Burt, a more plausible record for Death Valley is a June 30, 2013 reading of 19423 degrees F (54 degrees C), which interestingly enough is the same temperature recorded just yesterday.
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So to celebrate 4/20, Broadly is teaming up with Munchies, VICE's food website, and we're making some of the more plausible high foods that VICE employees conjured up when they were stoned.
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Add to it that Senator Manchin openly supported both of the bills his daughter co-authored, which specifically bolster Mylan's bottom line, and the appearance of undue influence becomes a little more plausible.
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Rather than going super-futuristic, "Hated in the Nation" looks like a recognizable basic cable crime drama, which makes the idea of actually being murdered by a drone insect feel much more plausible.
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Does the elevation of a figure like him make the prospect of one of the Four Horsemen more plausible and therefore—like it or not—make a massive reduction in inequality more likely?
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A more plausible difference, however, lies in the power held by the antitrust authorities in Europe versus the United States: The European Commission can issue fines, which can later be appealed in court.
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A third-party candidate who shifted attention to local people actually getting stuff done might lose, but he or she would begin to define a new and more plausible version of American greatness.
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"I find it more plausible that America's long-standing culture of gun violence has affected video games, as a form of culture, than the other way around," she told me in an email.
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Now Budiansky presents a less ambitious, more private, and more plausible Holmes, one who exercised less influence and who made his share of mistakes, but who became a symbol of the law nonetheless.
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At the same time, Trump pacifies his base with panicky nationalism and border walls, delineating a "rump territory" that is "no more plausible, no more livable" than the globalized world they rail against.
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Refracting a nostalgia for the 80s and a love of capitalism through the prism of Trump, fashave projects an image of a looming dystopia, one that grows a little more plausible by the day.
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Security seems like one of the more plausible uses for the SpotMini, given that all it really needs to do is walk around, record things, and maybe detect and report anything weird going on.
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The more plausible explanation for the success of the protocol they supported is that all of the entities named as defendants acted independently to assure the future of the Bitcoin Cash node they preferred.
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"We cannot say that we have evidence for the panspermia hypothesis, but we can say that showing the resistance of plant seeds to conditions in space makes the hypothesis more plausible," Tepfer told Gizmodo.
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So Frøysaker thought it was far more plausible that the splatters were white paint or chalk that had dripped onto the canvas by accident while Munch was working on other paintings in his studio.
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A more plausible hope is that Mr Díaz-Canel will follow the example of communist parties in China and Vietnam, which opened up markets and allowed citizens to enrich themselves while maintaining political control.
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And while the more plausible assessment would be that some of Antonoff's drink splashed onto Swift's arm, causing her to lick off the liquid, we choose to ignore logic — for Meredith and Olivia's sake.
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With the recent revelations that planets such as Proxima b could potentially be habitable, the thought of humanity spreading to the stars seems a little more plausible (provided you get around the distance issue).
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No one is more plausible than Damon at playing battered heroes with their backs against the wall, yet even at his most thuggish, in the Bourne films, he held fast to a rueful integrity.
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Rather, changes in marriage patterns, medication use, and media consumption would seem to be more plausible contenders if we truly want to understand why millennials (and post-millennials) are getting it on less often.
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The secrecy surrounding Area 51 is what makes it inherently creepy, and with the government admitting to a program investigating UFOs, the theories about what's actually going on inside continue to become more plausible.
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A more plausible course would be for China and Russia to work with the United States and the European Union to establish norms for responsible behavior in space, including not to test antisatellite weapons.
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"Good guy with a gun" arguments might be more plausible in a world where people didn't have the ability to legally obtain weapons that allow them to shoot more than a person per second.
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Justice Democrats are offering the less idealistic but more plausible theory for left politics to win primaries: play in districts where the Democratic nominee is all-but-certain to prevail in the general election.
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An actual exchange of fire between North Korea and the US — two nuclear-armed powers — is still unlikely, but the fact that it is much more plausible today than it was yesterday is disturbing.
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And the more the Trump White House remains mired in its own melodramas, the more plausible it becomes that the Trump-era House and Senate set a record for risk avoidance and legislative inactivity.
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Next year, the premium will jump from its current $18 to just under $200 — I guess since the possibility of me actually dying, so abstract at 33, is a lot more plausible at 53.
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So if Loehmann really thought that Rice was much older, that could help justify his use of deadly force, since a 20-year-old is a much more plausible threat than a 12-year-old.
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The second, which seems much more plausible, is that the stolen information could help tell a foreign power who in the U.S. government is facing personal financial problems and thus could be susceptible to bribery.
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"Now that North Korea has clearly demonstrated that it can be cooperative and come to the table, this US cancellation makes North Korea's argument that it is acting in good faith more plausible," Stratfor said.
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It is hard to see why the mother would have phoned someone who was a stranger to her, and more plausible that it was Noura who first used the landline before switching to her cell.
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In short, while reclaiming some Obama-to-Trump voters would be a big help to Democratic prospects, re-energizing 2012 Obama voters who stayed home is a more plausible path for the party going forward.
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And while it failed to depose an increasingly authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the unsuccessful putsch succeeded spectacularly at generating untold numbers of theories — some more plausible than others — as to who was behind it.
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Yuval Levin, editor of the journal National Affairs and a leading conservative intellectual, made the case to me over email: I think the more plausible cause for worry is that he will be a dysfunctional president.
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He could make a few Republicans like him, earn the respect of Americans who dislike Donald Trump, and — who knows — wind up on a Democratic ticket or make a more plausible case for an independent run.
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Why Cruz gets establishment support Many are gravitating to Cruz, arguing, as Bush did, that his predictable views are more plausible in a Republican nominee than the philosophically promiscuous, cult of personality spectacle that is Trump.
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A more plausible contention is that Leavers misled voters by claiming there were no economic downsides to Brexit, no risks to Britain's single-market advantages and fully £350m a week extra for the National Health Service.
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That, along with G.M.'s ability to market and deliver cars at scale across America, makes it a more plausible mass-market vehicle than anything the flashier Tesla Motors has been able to introduce so far.
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The other version of the Ferguson effect, which Rosenfeld argues is more plausible, suggests that the attention to police shootings and Black Lives Matter protests have heightened long-simmering distrust in police, particularly within minority communities.
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As detailed in a paper published recently in Astrobiology, studies of organisms capable of withstanding extreme environments on earth—appropriately known as extremophiles—has made the prospect microbial life on Venus more plausible in recent years.
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It's to protect America's national security and the integrity of its elections by determining whether a presidential campaign conspired with a foreign adversary to influence the 2016 election — a proposition that grows more plausible every day.
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The last convention to go beyond the first ballot was 1952, but with so many potential candidates contemplating a run in 2020, the possibility for a contested convention seems more plausible than any in recent history.
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The relatively small scale of Chinese imports from the US makes this option look more plausible, since Beijing is already running out of imports on which it can impose tariffs on a tit-for-tat basis.
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Barbara BoxerBarbara Levy BoxerOnly four Dem senators have endorsed 85033 candidates Hispanic civil rights icon endorses Harris for president California AG Becerra included in Bloomberg 50 list MORE (D), an all-Democratic runoff becomes more plausible.
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But the increasing possibility that Mr. Trump will win the state — in no small part because of an improbable alliance with the party's establishment — makes Mr. Trump's path to the nomination far more plausible than ever before.
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Image: Fernando Ramirez RozziThe humans who performed the surgery may have been trying to save the life of the cow, but the more plausible explanation is that they were refining their surgical techniques by practicing on cows.
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One idea was that they might instead secure the succession for his sister, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who is a more plausible example of the virtues of devotion and abstemiousness which Thailand's monarch is supposed to personify.
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Often the monsters are outlandish — the massive Anjanath spews fire when it's agitated, while the fox-like Tobi-Kadachi crackles with electricity — but since much of their design feels realistic, these more fantastical elements seem more plausible.
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Meanwhile, there is another, more plausible theory, that is still on the table: that the hole was made by a worker on the ground, who then hastily patched it up before the Soyuz launched on June 6th.
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Project: Time Off's report suggests a more plausible reason than narcissism for this discrepancy: Millennials entered the workforce during the Great Recession and suffered the most dramatic consequences of the dire labor market that came with it.
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The film was so successful that it started a round of talk about its chances of Academy Awards, a seeming long shot made more plausible by the Academy's new makeup and seeming growing interest in genre cinema.
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And, if anything, his testimony has only made Clinton's mishandling of classified information seem more plausible and the FBI's decision not to recommend prosecution more reasonable: Comey: "None of the emails had headers" noting they were classified.
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What is more plausible is that an American recruit inspired by ISIS might reach out directly to members of ISIS in Syria over an encrypted social media platform seeking some kind of specific directions for an attack.
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Indeed, when the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations raised significantly more plausible objections to congressional subpoenas, the courts sided with the House, ordering the executive to turn over the vast majority of the subpoenaed material.
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That end would look like one of the more plausible conservative alternatives to Obamacare: a subsidy to cover the cost of a catastrophic health insurance plan, plus a directly funded health savings account to cover primary care.
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Seems to me that's a hell of a lot more plausible than her claim that she magically learned the language of the park's Native Americans because she was the only white person who bothered to pay attention.
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What's more plausible is that he was at least competitive with Latinos, given the margin of the final vote—heartening for Sanders, but hardly convincing proof that he's made the breakthrough with non-white voters that he needs.
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We've got other research showing that when someone doesn't feel in control of their life or in control of what's happening to them, conspiracy theories seem more plausible, and that might have been what's happening with these people.
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A deleted scene would have revealed that all modern Earth technology is descended from the alien craft captured at Roswell, meaning that Goldblum's ability to craft a virus compatible with the alien's technology is slightly more plausible. 10.
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A clutch of more plausible Republican candidates, including Marco Rubio, a senator from Florida, and a trio of current and former governors, John Kasich, Chris Christie and Jeb Bush, take a slightly more serious view of the problem.
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They might slow down Netflix, making movies like The Big Lebowski unwatchable, in order to push captive subscribers to their own properties, a prospect that becomes more plausible as telecoms like AT&T and Verizon expand into content.
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I never really thought about the steering wheel straight-up falling off—the wheel locking up seems much more plausible—but Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s steering wheel actually did just straight-up fall off while he was driving.
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Complicating matters: He is in the first year of a four-year, $120 million contract extension that he signed before the start of last season, back when it seemed more plausible that the Cavaliers could build around him.
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That makes it more plausible and productive, more institutionalist, if you will, than a Republican crusade to defund universities, and it's suggestive of a better way that the right might approach its alienation from academia and vice versa.
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On the other hand, apparating—vanishing from one place and appearing in another—strikes me as more plausible than time travel, possibly because we have many ways to move through space but only one way to move through time.
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"The baseline is still the synchronized upturn, but what's been happening is the risks have been shifting to the downside, so everyone is paying attention to these scenarios that look maybe a little more plausible than they did before."
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The more intensely they can amplify the feeling of crisis, the more plausible they sound when they blame liberal slackness and ineptitude for disorder and promote the notion that Eden can be regained if only the leader is followed.
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One somewhat more plausible scenario to consider came in Tennessee, which implemented a mandatory waiting period for abortions in 2015—clinicians did have a brief window (about a month and a half) to adjust to the grim new reality.
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And with an eye to the potential to save lives and avoid billions of dollars in damage, some engineers and entrepreneurs, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, are studying ways to dial back the destruction in more plausible ways.
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The prospect of Iowa or New Hampshire being displaced in 2024 now appears more plausible than ever, as a result of the fiasco in Iowa this month and Democratic leaders' growing discomfort with the homogeneous character of those states.
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I just hope those principles are a comfort to them when the next wave of liberalism delivers us to a much more plausible health insurance destination than Singapore: Straightforward single-payer, in the form of Medicaid for almost all.
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A visit to a stronghold of Ms. Le Pen's National Front suggests that she may be succeeding in broadening her appeal to the point where a victory is more plausible, even if the odds are still stacked against her.
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But a visit to this southeastern National Front stronghold suggests that Ms. Le Pen may be succeeding in broadening her appeal to the point where a victory is more plausible, even if the odds are still stacked against her.
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Working against it: Though "The Favourite" picked up a comedy Globe for Colman and recently managed a win with the editors' guild, it hasn't yet notched the sort of stop-the-presses victory that makes best picture more plausible.
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A more plausible option is for Apple to follow its strategy for the iPad and drop the numbering entirely in favor of just calling the new line the iPhone and using the X218 and X29 Plus to differentiate between sizes.
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The Sanders campaign Reach: Aired in Minnesota Impact: Bernie Sanders has been airing several endorsement commercials like this one in recent weeks, likely hoping that support from elected officials will make him look like a more plausible choice for the nomination.
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While some of those "attractions" are more plausible than others (sorry, it's definitely not your blood sugar content), Joe Conlon, PhD, technical advisor to the American Mosquito Control Association, says it all comes down to the secretions your skin's putting out.
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Crenshaw and the 105 Freeway, which is 5 mins from LAX More plausible explanations for Musk's interest in tunnels include the fact that, with President Trump's pledge to fund infrastructure, starting a boring company now might be a lucrative idea.
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Considering the fact that the promotion recently released Ryan Bader and Misha Cirkunov—two winning fighters in the talent-starved light heavyweight division—it seems even more plausible that Hendricks and Lombard could be fighting for their jobs this Sunday.
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The longer the race remains a muddle — and don't forget Elizabeth Warren, who built a powerful grass-roots organization and may have a surprise or two up her sleeve — the more plausible a Super Tuesday Bloomberg blitzkrieg starts to look.
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That would make a general election — which in 2017 was pulled off just seven weeks after it was announced — the more plausible option to give the British public another chance to weigh in on Brexit by re-selecting their leaders.
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Cybersecurity folks tend to assume the internet is an endless source of threats, but now that hordes of Kremlin-backed troublemakers are spreading Bernie Sanders thong drawings to weaken America's resolve, this kind of waking nightmare is more plausible than ever.
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But it's the discovery of a black-and-white photograph – unearthed by retired U.S. Treasury Agent Les Kinney in 2012 and revealed for the first time in the documentary – that suddenly makes the theory more plausible, adds the former FBI boss.
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Perhaps more plausible is the theory that Cohen has been involved in a lot of shady activities over the years, and so preferred to pick and choose what he'd cooperate about rather than being obligated to tell everything he knows.
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Politically, the U.B.I. looks a lot more plausible than a subsidy aimed only at mothers, because, as Social Security and Medicare make clear, policies have more staying power when perceived as general entitlements rather than free cash for free riders.
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"Now seeing what's being paraded in the media like the wildly speculative attribution to Russia, I feel a personal responsibility to propose the more plausible theory on behalf of me and the rest of the guys like me," he said.
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"The more plausible, benign reasons and motivations you may have to do a firing of an otherwise at-will employee actually can undermine a prosecutor's case in a criminal obstruction charge," CNN legal analyst Laura Coates said on "Newsroom" Thursday.
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That the big banks are still huge despite this suggests that a more plausible explanation is that banking relationships are quite "sticky" and that the perceived hassle of switching to a low-fee competitor outweighs the benefits in many consumers' minds.
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It seems more plausible that Shakespeare shared the centuries-long prejudice against Jews than that he got carried away by his humanity and thus rendered his work, in Greenblatt's words, an "uncomfortable" mix of high-mindedness and anti-Semitic attitudes.
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A more plausible outcome, gently entertained by Mr Macron, is that over time the EU adopts a more flexible model of membership, reassembling itself into "tiers" that allow countries to choose the level of integration to which they are best suited.
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The Air Force's case includes a new analysis of Sergeant Chapman's autopsy that found that bruising on his forehead could have happened only if he had been alive, making the hypothesis that he had been briefly knocked out more plausible.
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Death by drug-dealers was much more plausible than death by a far-out cult of brainwashed teenage runaways and the puppet-master who convinced them he was Jesus Christ and thought the Beatles' wrote the "White Album" for him.
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A more plausible reason emerged when my colleagues and I reported that the publication coincided with A.M.I.'s efforts to strike business deals in Saudi Arabia, which included a meeting there between the company's chairman, David Pecker, and M.B.S. himself.
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Alchemy might not be real, but the idea that there's a secret word you might speak and put everything back together again somehow feels more plausible, like it's some sort of lost knowledge that used to guide the country forward.
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Control of Kirkuk and its oil had made it seem more plausible for them to break away; without it, independence is problematic, since they would be financially worse off than inside Iraq with a share of its overall oil income.
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But any such endeavor also requires heavy investments of private capital, which again becomes a far more plausible prospect if there is a new, more democratic workplace, or one that is guided by real worker voices and real worker participation.
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The theories so farThe lack of answers even as more information comes to light, combined with the fruitless searches, means all that&aposs left are theories of what might have happened to the flight — and some are more plausible than others.
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If there is a lot of slack, then the Trump administration's ambitious growth targets look more plausible, and the Fed should move slowly on raising interest rates so as not to choke off the expansion just as it's getting going.
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If the couple had asked Mr. Phillips to write a message on their cake endorsing same-sex marriage and he had been punished for refusing, he would have a more plausible First Amendment claim, since he wouldn't write that for anyone.
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Why even treat his "drain the swamp" chant as if it were a serious call to reform lobbying and campaign finance practices, when it's far more plausible that it referred to Trump adviser Steve Bannon's promise to "deconstruct the administrative state"?
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Times have changed, but, as Foley points out, a write-in becomes much more plausible when new revelations or "late-breaking information" does damage to the "conventional" candidate — in this case, the person on the top of the party ticket.
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"Day said his scenario seems more plausible compared to the "required chain of events of [breaking] felsite from the Earth at very high impact pressures so that it can escape Earth's orbit, and then incorporating it in a lunar impact melt rock.
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The branching story of 22, and optional side characters, that may or may not die, are akin to the first Resident Evil, but with its sprawling and more plausible environments, it appears a much different game, and a truer successor, than RE2.
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Jokowi—a more plausible man of the people than either Mr Thaksin or Mr Duterte (the son of a cabinet minister)—has neither the personal mandate nor, mercifully, the ruthless hunger for power (at least, on the evidence so far) to follow suit.
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"It seemed more plausible that the splatters were actually white paint or chalk that had accidentally dripped on the 'Scream' while Munch was working on other paintings in his studio," Tine Frøysaker, a professor at the University of Oslo said in a statement.
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Let's assume, though, that you have his metaphorical private parts in a vice, but nevertheless you don't feel you can trust him, whether in terms of his personality or how much leverage you have on him, which is a bit more plausible.
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And while there's certainly no shortage of rival apps out there claiming to make selfies look better, Lensa's AI-powered retouching does offer — at a glance — less crude/more plausible results than plenty of gimmicky 'beauty filter' apps also touting reality-editing wares.
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Still, the Keio group thinks the explosion model is more plausible because we're actually observed phenomena best explained by rapidly contracting and then exploding gas: the Tornado nebula, and a more vague, recently discovered feature located near the center of our galaxy.
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The study projected the prospect of having one of two pilots take a nap while the other sat at the controls was as being more plausible, suggesting it might be possible for airlines to reduce long-haul crew numbers in the future.
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Technology is making "variable" or "dynamic" pricing — the same strategies that ensure a seat on an airplane, a hotel room or an Uber car are almost always available if you're willing to pay the price — more plausible in areas with huge social consequences.
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For my money a more plausible concept is one being developed by Airbus, the giant European aircraft manufacturer, called Pop Up. It's a passenger pod that can be carried around by a battery-powered unit that looks like a large hobby drone.
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But with a populist in the White House, a socialist winning primaries, a Democratic electorate desperate for a winning candidate and an establishment desperate for a champion, Bloomberg has become a somewhat more plausible presidential candidate than I imagined even six months back.
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While George's stunt raises the specter of one form of disaster — zealots or billionaires trying to take the climate into their own hands — many experts think the more plausible scenarios involve nation-states, perhaps driven to desperation by a rapidly changing world.
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"This could mean there are more oceans in the universe than previously thought, making the existence of extraterrestrial life more plausible," said Shunichi Kamata, study author and associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Hokkaido University in Japan, in a statement.
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The success of Donald Trump has made Cruz a more plausible figure, for those in the party who want to harness Trump's popular appeal but are wary of the risks that come with handing over control of the party to a loud mouth and demagogue.
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The change, accepted by the International Olympic Committee and Rio organizers, will give Felix more time between her opening round of the 200 meters and the final of the 400 meters, making her attempt to win both gold medals more plausible, the I.A.A.F. said.
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Trump is a genuinely disruptive force, and if his coalition holds together it could make genuinely unlikely outcomes — Cruz as the most right-wing nominee since Barry Goldwater, a battle on the convention floor — far more plausible than they would have been without him.
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Reducing the cruelty that animals suffer, though, is more plausible, both through legislation—battery cages for hens have been banned in the EU since 2013—and through consumer pressure, such as a preference for free-range products, cruelty-free certification, transparent sourcing and the like.
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He's held that theory for about a year, and now that Yelp has recently gone from a dual class stock structure to a single one, he believes it has become "more plausible" for someone to bid for the company, even as a hostile bid.
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The idea of a state launching its own satellites today is much more plausible than it was back in 1987, when Joanne Gabrynowicz, the editor-in-chief emerita of the Journal of Space Law, was approached by the staff of longtime New Jersey Sen.
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Moscow has denied so many strange and sinister things that have turned out to be true — or at least far more plausible than the Kremlin's often-risible counter stories — that even the most seemingly far-fetched speculation about Russian mischief tends to acquire traction.
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That's because Cohen's testimony dovetailed with the always-more-plausible narrative in which Trump and his circle weren't collaborators but fools and wannabes, who might have been willing to play games with spies and hackers, but who mostly just bumbled around haplessly on the sidelines.
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If President Trump was able to create a public forum on Twitter without Twitter's agreement to such a legal state of affairs, then it becomes more plausible to think that Twitter itself is a public space, regardless of whether it intends to be one.
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This one may be slightly more plausible: Masayoshi Son, the billionaire controlling shareholder of Sprint — and a newfound friend of Mr. Trump's who pledged to invest $100 billion in the United States and create 50,000 jobs — makes a bid to merge Sprint with T-Mobile.
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But in 1787, the more plausible scenario was that a foreign earl or duke would cross the Atlantic with immense wealth and a vast retinue and use his European riches to buy friends and power on a scale that virtually no American could match.
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It's hard to know how often this really happens, but it seems much more plausible if the justice system is incarcerating people for lengthy periods of time, tarnishing their social networks outside of prison and leaving them only with the networks they build in prison.
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While that scenario is a long shot (Oscars predicting site Gold Derby currently has the film's odds for a best picture nomination at 100 to 1), after the movie's director, Tim Miller, nabbed a prestigious Directors Guild of America bid on Thursday, it seems more plausible.
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To address this question we reached out to a number of experts in food safety and chemistry—and while they spoke primarily to the hypothetical effects of un- or improperly-digested antibiotics (the more plausible scenario, after all), the answer would seem to apply to any substance.
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In the short term leading Republicans fear something less apocalyptic but more plausible: that Mr Trump is so thin-skinned, vindictive and bored by detail, and his party so divided, that Republicans may pass no substantial laws between now and the mid-term elections of November 2018.
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Or, as seems much more plausible, was he tasked with writing up a memo that would validate an already-made decision on the theory that if the Trump administration aligned themselves with earlier Democratic criticism of Comey, they would be unable to knock him for the firing?
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Over the next four weeks and up to the moment when she read Oliver's apology, Hal had revisited the conversation in her head, each time wondering whether Petra had been offering her free career advice or—and this seemed more plausible now—some kind of trade.
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While Twitter's leaders have long maintained that they want it to remain independent, the idea of a sale became more plausible after recent comments from co-founder and board member Evan Williams, who had also been the company's CEO before being replaced by Dick Costolo in 2010.
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Much more plausible than the possibility of the polls, the other forecasts, and the personal judgments of people like Abramowitz all being wrong was the conclusion that modeling based on fundamentals in a year with a hugely unusual Republican nominee is liable to miss the mark.
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Considering how Congress has functioned lately, it may be more plausible that House and Senate Republican leaders and a few other members will end up cutting a deal on a final bill through a less formal, closed-door process than that they'll actually do a true conference.
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Still, there appear to be two more plausible explanations for Trump's sub-Cabinet slowness: First, there's more vetting after some early nominations had to be withdrawn, and second, there are behind-the-scenes clashes about whether Cabinet secretaries can hire subordinates who criticized Trump during the campaign.
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The trailer dropped at a particularly bad time, with debates over negotiation deals between UK and EU reaching a fever pitch over the past week as British prime minister Theresa May faced a no-confidence vote and the possibility of a second referendum started to seem more plausible.
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If chemically active droplets can grow to a set size and divide of their own accord, then "it makes it more plausible that there could have been spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving soup," said Frank Jülicher, a biophysicist in Dresden and a co-author of the new paper.
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But over the last couple of months, as it has become clear that Trump absolutely wants to win and will burn down the country if he doesn't, the Trump TV rumor has become more plausible, not less: It's Trump's best bet to monetize what electoral clout he has.
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They could still overtake Chicago, the expected N.F.C. North champion, for the No. 3 seed, but the Simulator deems it far more plausible that the Cowboys finish fourth in the conference — a 76 percent chance, at present, that drops to only 70 percent if Dallas beats the Colts.
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In essence, media narratives that take a narrow view of whiteness and suggest that the falling share of 100 percent Europeans in the population means the end of America's white majority generate "much higher levels of anger or anxiety" than alternative (and, frankly, more plausible) characterizations of the situation.
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Senator Kamala Harris, whose dud presidential campaign has lately become a slightly more plausible vice presidential one, took the opportunity to reheat her LIFT Act, which would direct preposterously insufficient payments to a narrow subset of Americans who were neither too rich nor, not a little nauseatingly, too poor.
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This wouldn't have made the claim accurate, since Trump has not implemented any of his proposals to impound or tax remittance money to pay for the wall, but it might have seemed at least slightly more plausible if he had taken the time to memorize the right word.
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But it would make inversions all the more alluring and, in the long run, would likely reduce the number of new companies incorporating themselves in the U.S. A more plausible alternative is to follow the lead of countries like Germany and Japan and adopt a hybrid territorial system.
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But even if Trump doesn't formally endorse a primary challenge, if he continues to criticize McConnell, he would hurt McConnell's image among the GOP base and foment criticism of the leader in media outlets like Fox News and Breitbart — which could well spur a more plausible primary challenge anyway.
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In that time, visual effects have evolved to the point where making huge real-looking aliens is a lot more plausible than it was back in 1996, when all we got was one half-visible alien at the controls of the mothership—and that extraterrestrial Will Smith punched in the face.
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And there's a part of Akhmetshin's own story, as reported by the AP, that makes this seem more plausible: During the meeting, Akhmetshin said Veselnitskaya brought with her a plastic folder with printed-out documents that detailed what she believed was the flow of illicit funds to the Democratic National Committee.
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Both Tencent, which already has a 5% stake in Tesla, and Baidu are investors in NIO, one of the more plausible contenders among a slew of Chinese-backed competitors such as Faraday Future and WM. Along with Alibaba, Chinese firms are putting large sums into developing electric vehicles, autonomous driving and mobility services.
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Alessandro Viscogliosi, a professor of the history of architecture at the University of Rome whom I met toward the end of my stay, has a more plausible — though mundane — explanation: When the Templum Pacis burned in 191 A.D., the gold and silver vessels melted and were subsequently salvaged and recast, probably as coins.
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The main reason why great-power warfare has become somewhat more plausible than at any time since the height of the cold war is that both Russia and China are dissatisfied powers determined to change the terms of a Western-devised, American-policed international order which they believe does not serve their legitimate interests.
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The funny thing about the billionaire (who, when asked if he "likes being referred to as billionaire Elon Musk" replied "no") is that he's been successful enough with ideas like SpaceX and Tesla that all his other ideas (like Mars colonization or that we're living in a video game) seem to be more plausible.
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If the pious owners of a corporation can argue that their freedom is substantially burdened by a health-care plan, then it becomes a bit more plausible for an altruistic aid worker, or even a pacifist nun, to say that freedom is being curtailed unless they too are free to act on their ideals.
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Axions, a hypothesized fundamental particle of matter relating to the strong nuclear force, aren't the only proposed candidate for dark matter, but as searches for WIMPs (weakly-interacting massive particles)—far and away the favored proposed particle comprising dark matter—come up empty, axionic dark matter has become a more and more plausible scenario.
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The president-elect has previously stated he is not interested in nation-building but would like to "bomb the shit out of" ISIS, a strategy that becomes more plausible with the removal of the moderate rebel forces from Aleppo, where they received on-again off-again backing from the U.S., Turkey, and other allies.
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However, it is a sure bet that in a world where a smartphone has as much processing power as a Cray supercomputer had in the 1980s, and startups are launching satellites by the hundreds, a brilliant-pebble constellation is technologically a lot more plausible than it used to be, even though it might still prove politically unacceptable.
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To be sure, it is difficult to establish definitively that a specific constitutional provision was taken from a specific biblical passage; rather, it is more plausible that constitutional principles were indirectly influenced by biblical concepts that had long before found expression in western legal tradition, especially in the English common law, and, more recently, colonial laws.
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Obama administration chief economist Jason Furman and his colleagues at the Council of Economic Advisers estimated that since 20133, the growth of SSDI reduced men's labor force participation by, at most, 0.1 to 0.4 percentage points, with the lower figure being much more plausible; for context, men's labor force participation fell 8.4 percentage points over this period.
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I felt, reading the book, that that scenario looks more plausible to you than it does to me, but perhaps it is because you are stepping a little bit further out of the daily cacophony, and so the change and the degree to which everybody is obsessed and immersed in a lot of data all of the time is more clear.
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In my current game, the AI-controlled US men's team made it to the World Cup semifinals (they didn't qualify in the real world); that's obviously an aberration, but the claim to as authentic a virtual world as can be made can lead the mind to wander to strange what-if scenarios as though they're more plausible than they actually are.
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Against that backdrop, which interpretation of Ivanka Trump's performance in public life seems more plausible: that she tried very hard to negotiate with her father on climate change—to use The Art of the Deal on him as it were—and failed miserably, or that she's cynically severed any connection between her image and reality in order to maximize profit?
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"So from initially being a skeptic based on many of the other published critiques of the flower-burial evidence, I am coming round to think this scenario is much more plausible and I am excited to see the full results of our new analyses," said University of Cambridge osteologist and paleoanthropologist Emma Pomeroy, lead author of the research published in the journal Antiquity.
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His professed nationalism, with its promise of infrastructure projects and antitrust actions and maybe even tax hikes on the rich, is potentially more popular than the Tea Party vision — an easier sell to swing voters than a stringent libertarianism or a zombie Reaganism, a more plausible response to the new political landscape that the stale agenda currently on offer on a Republican-controlled Capitol Hill.
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You know, the one that was cut down to her navel and up to her crotch, and set off so many digital searches back in the day that, in the myth of the internet and fashion, it is said Google created image search because of it (a more plausible version of the story is that it was part of the reason; a big part, sure, but still — a part).
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The removal or resignation of Trump and Pence has perhaps become more plausible with the New York Times revelation that the FBI opened an investigation into whether the president had been working for the Russians after he fired James ComeyJames Brien Comey85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE in 2017.
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As a result, the allegations in the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele that the Russians used prostitutes to compromise President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE while he was in Moscow in 22019 appear more plausible.
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I mean, you're set up right now going into New Hampshire with Pete Buttigieg, who is a very talented guy, but also a somewhat ridiculous figure as a candidate for president of the United States as the not Biden alternative to Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, who I think we both agreed would have made a more plausible Democratic nominee, especially for those districts and those suburban female voters that Michelle is talking about, is pretty much knocked out by her performance.
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I mean, you're set up right now going into New Hampshire with Pete Buttigieg, who is a very talented guy, but also a somewhat ridiculous figure as a candidate for president of the United States as the not Biden alternative to Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, who I think we both agreed would have made a more plausible Democratic nominee, especially for those districts and those suburban female voters that Michelle is talking about, is pretty much knocked out by her performance.
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The more plausible explanation is that re-starting federal executions is pure political rope-a-dope — cleverly timed for this week's Democratic debates, especially tonight's top-of-the-card bout between former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 220006 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE and Senators Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 2202 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE (D-Calif.) and Corey Booker (D-N.
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