But if one could be certain of nothing in dealing with creatures so incalculable as human beings, there were explanations of Blanche Stroeve's behaviour which were at all events plausible.
" Huck was in a close place—the inquiring eye was upon him—he would have given anything for material for a plausible answer—nothing suggested itself—the inquiring eye was boring deeper and deeper—a senseless reply offered—there was no time to weigh it, so at a venture he uttered it—feebly: "Sunday-school books, maybe.
He made a plausible excuse; but his real reason had been the fear that not even the secret would keep them with him any very great length of time, and so he had meant to hold it in reserve as a last seduction.
Experts concluded it was "highly plausible" the painting's location - 150 meters from the Auberge Ravoux, the inn in Auvers-sur-Oise where Van Gogh spent the final 70 days of his life - had been discovered.
The program says that its three age filters — two for younger-looking images, one for older — use "artificial intelligence" to produce plausible alterations to existing photos.
Academic efforts to document Dunbar numbers in the age of social media are limited, although two Twitter studies suggest that 150 may still be a plausible estimate.
With the new theories it became possible at last to construct plausible scenarios for how we got here.
The cosmic rays notion, though considered plausible, hasn't been verified yet.
But the new study by Canadian public health scientists is the first to find a link between living close to heavy traffic and the onset of dementia, a discovery described as "plausible" and "impressive" by British experts.
Suspicious stories Put someone's story into context and decide how plausible, probable and provable it is.
Plausible solutions include building on the success of Teach First, the groundbreaking operation to recruit the highest-achieving young graduates into the classroom, which went nationwide just over a year ago.
If the untruth focuses on someone else, this gives more plausible deniability.
The to-scale graphic below uses Vance's data to show the plausible volumes of water (both liquid and ice) for the nine ocean worlds verified so far: (): In order of how much water they have, from the least to the most, they are: Enceladus, Dione, Earth, Europa, Pluto, Triton, Callisto, Titan, and Ganymede.
Money went to plausible finalists and medallists.
We take inspiration from the sci-fi film "Blade Runner" to consider what a plausible world, in which it is useful to build a Voight-Kampff machine, might be like.
According to the study, plausible mechanisms that underpin these negative effects include stress and fatigue associated with long commute to work and the father's absence in the home, particularly for fathers who commute weekly to work.
Even now, prices of about $44 per barrel are still below the level that most people in the oil industry would consider sustainable for the long term, so it is certainly plausible to think that the correction is now under way.
The "university" had its own website, a Facebook page, a seal featuring the Latin terms "Humanus, Scientia, Integritas", a plausible menu of business degree options, and the enticing offer of "an exceptional education experience".
The team experimented with three different levels over the course of a standard 9-to-5 routine: 550 ppm (similar to outdoor levels), 945 ppm (what you would expect in most offices) and 1,400 ppm (denser but still plausible for many offices).
Plausible worries could also have triggered such a realisation.