This is a very plausible argument, but to what extent is it actually true?

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No plausible argument can be made that it has 'the purpose of supporting the Government.

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But one plausible argument for now taking that risk is that the Tory party is mired in sleaze.

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He makes the plausible argument that Iraq underproduced for decades and deserves to catch up, but this has irritated the Saudis.

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If more money translated into better schools and hospitals and, above all, more jobs for Saudis that might be a more plausible argument.

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In many of these cases I can make a plausible argument that the government activities in question can be justified under a strict libertarian conception of the role of government.

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Fortunately, there is a plausible argument against haste.

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But at oral argument, the appellate judges raised some more plausible defenses.

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The only plausible reason they have for denying the name marriage, the argument continues, is disapprobation of homosexuality, which the court rejected as a rational basis in both Romer and Lawrence.

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