I know that seems ludicrous.

You know, it's just ludicrous.

Now I know that seems ludicrous.

So I want to try and convince you in about 15 minutes that that's a ridiculous and ludicrous thing to do.

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

And that is what ultimately makes the China centric blame game so absurd. Without addressing the root of the problem America s chronic saving shortfall it is ludicrous to believe that there can be a bilateral solution for a multilateral problem.

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

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

Or perhaps the dividing line should be between propositions that depend on reasonable behavioral assumptions and those that depend on ludicrous ones. If people saved every extra penny of borrowed money that the government spent, the spending would have no stimulating effect.

Venezuelans would like nothing better than to be the ones who decide their own destiny, but the democratic means to do so are being denied to them. Indeed, one of the key opposition leaders, Leopoldo López, has been arrested on ludicrous charges of inciting crime.

When one of Joseph Stalin's chief planners was asked why he was willing to defend a series of ludicrous proposals, he famously replied, I'd rather stand for unrealistic plans than sit in jail for realistic ones. One can imagine that Gazprom officials are thinking along the same lines.

An early test of the extent of the Kremlin's commitment to the Minsk agreement should be whether it frees Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine's first woman fighter pilot. Savchenko has been on a hunger strike in Russia for more than two months to protest her patently illegal incarceration on charges even more ludicrous than those for which I was imprisoned.

I vividly remember the slightly ludicrous, slightly risqué, and somewhat distressing predicament in which Western diplomats in Prague found themselves during the Cold War. They regularly needed to resolve the delicate issue of whether to invite to their embassy celebrations various Charter 77 signatories, human rights activists, critics of the communist regime, displaced politicians, or even banned writers, scholars, and journalists people with whom the diplomats were generally friends.

As soon as Proctor was awarded the patent, he sued two importers of the yellow beans, demanding that they pay royalties. Although the importers knew that Proctor s invention was ludicrous (because they had been importing the bean from Mexico for years), they had no choice but to accept the patent s legality, causing 22,000 Mexican farmers and their families to lose 90 of their export incomes in just the first year.

While it has allowed US President Barack Obama to back down from his threat of military intervention in response to the regime s use of chemical weapons, it has also allowed Assad to continue to butcher his people. It is ludicrous to believe that US Secretary of State John Kerry s offhand comment about destroying Syria s chemical weapons stockpile was anything but a well choreographed opening for Russia to make its diplomatic play, thereby letting the US off the hook.