The charming little girl who gets her Daddy to dress up, that strains credulity.
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The bizarre nature and timing of events and accounts surrounding the Petraeus and Benghazi scandals strain credulity.
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For one, greed will always stoke credulity and lead the foolish to hand over wealth to the clever.
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If that was an improbable end, the 30 minutes of extra-time continued to strain the bounds of credulity.
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There is no way, within the bounds of credulity, to regulate substances like black tar heroin or methamphetamine.
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"It strains credulity, " said Justice Department prosecutor George Vein of Trie's burglary story.
At that point private-sector economists reached for their remaining supply of credulity and found, unsurprisingly, that it had run out.
The question shudders with possibilities throughout the melodramatic musical "Passion, " whose plot strains credulity, yet celebrates the erratic improbabilities of love.
It stretches credulity to claim that in this particular instance the prime minister is motivated by finer feelings for the fox.
But it is rich in themes as well: social masks, conformity and credulity, wanting to be loved for oneself alone, madness, despair.
Selling prosperity theology to the poor attracts criticism from those who believe that the Universal Church exploits the credulity of the desperate.
The notion that Connecticut investment officials didn't understand that firms like Forstmann take real risks for the possibility of big gains belies credulity.
It strains credulity, moreover, that the Russian government might seriously consider under present circumstances implementing a threat to ignite a new arms race.
It strains credulity that ascendant ex-Soviet hard-liners will be more amenable to eliminating such manufacturing assets should they start to turn a profit.
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So the figure strains credulity, and its provenance is highly suspect.
But most especially, it strains credulity that Senators would want to authorize such an expenditure before they have given advice and consent to this accord.
But it stretches credulity to ask us to believe that he hadn't used the assets of his other companies as collateral to shore up his bank.
All this is plausible, but Mr Jeal strains credulity when he claims that Stanley remained unaware for so long of the rapacious African ambitions of Leopold.
These are all plausible explanations for individual cases, but it stretches credulity to believe that they can account for all the pulsar-free remnants that have now been discovered.
Reminders that they are depriving al-Qaeda of the base from which it plots the West's destruction stretch credulity when the terrorists do just that from Pakistan's tribal areas.
Unfortunately, stepping back for the media just led to credulity.
It strains credulity that a man with such pronounced - and anti-American - policy views can serve effectively, let alone objectively, as the arbiter of National Intelligence Estimates.
We women can listen too long without demanding action, err on the side of credulity, repeatedly expose ourselves to victimization and permit injustice to flourish in the name of keeping the peace.
While the role of football and other high-profile sports on college campuses is certainly a legitimate subject for debate, the notion that this phenomenon is in any way unique to Penn State defies credulity.
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Meanwhile, the host country Great Britain further stretched the bounds of credulity by avoiding one of the humiliating face plants that have long been associated with British soccer with a 3-1 victory over United Arab Emirates.
Second, the testimony that every single client on the list of customers to whom he sent an overnight package requested the enclosed ACAT forms strains credulity (particularly since most of these customers did not actually transfer their accounts).
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It strains credulity to assume that China, Russia, Iran, and other non-democratic actors will not selectively apply (at best) such rules to themselves while using them as a cudgel with which to bash their rivals and score political points.
It strains credulity that Gorbachev's evident hope of "toughing out" the present crisis is unrelated to the substantial emergency assistance to the central authorities in Moscow now being contemplated by the Bush Administration and its counterparts in allied capitals.
Its professions of continued commitment to development and deployment of the SDI program strain credulity when simultaneously it welcomes the Soviets' latest assertion that such work is incompatible with the ABM Treaty and would end future Soviet adherence to START.
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