It is not absurd to speak of a cosmopolitan Sharia. In Islamic tradition, reform of Sharia results from anIjtijad, a creative and intellectual effort to apply Islamic law to new circumstances.

It is not absurd to speak of a cosmopolitan Sharia.

Discuss. Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Dan Jurafsky Does Lufthansa serve breakfast and San Jose? Well, that sounds funny.

It would be absurd to suggest that we would have an interest in those.

Moreover, describing Chinese private entrepreneurs as a plutocracy is grotesque.

It's almost as absurd as building a nuclear reactor inside a castle.

The government has, among other things, raised gas tariffs by 450 (from absurdly low levels).

In this context a phrase Polish concentration camps is absurd and scientifically disqualified. michalgornicki shared his concern about the influence of the gaffe on the perception of Poland during the Euro 2012 championship After this, all of the European football teams that come to Poland visit only the Polish concentration camps, this is just great

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It was an absurd thing to say, of course, in 1938, given the size of Europe s populations today.

His comparison of the Iranian threat to the Holocaust may be absurd and obscene, but it is politically effective.

Before the crisis, some thought risk premia for developing countries were irrationally low.

I should know not to do technology demos in front of an audience. It's just, like, absurd.

Absurdly generous compensation in the financial sector induced some of our best minds to go into banking.

He is loud, crude, ignorant about most things, and looks absurd in his puffed up blond comb over hairdo.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend.

It would be absurd to set US President Barack Obama and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso against each other as equals.

In part this is accomplished by explicitly reducing entitlements and raising retirement age from absurdly low levels.

Despite this, the term genocide, freely bandied about by Western interventionists, was grotesquely inappropriate at any time.

He wanted to give up the dangerous kind of science and keep the good bits. Now, that's absurdly naive for two reasons.

It would be absurd if we had to suffer a real catastrophe again in order to understand what European integration has always been about.

Despite this, the term genocide, freely bandied about by Western interventionists, was grotesquely inappropriate at any time.

It has generated a lot of protests online among Malaysians, many of whom feel that it is absurd to be spending millions to create a Facebook page.

Yet many of these same fans would almost surely argue that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, whose median compensation is around 10 million, are ridiculously overpaid.

The claim that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world s vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.

It is absurd to suggest that European visionaries such as Adenauer and de Gaulle failed to realize the consequences of their decision to admit Turkey as an associate member of the EEC.

More grotesquely, when the Americans decided to finance a film on the life of Anwar Sadat, the Egyptians objected because the actor chosen to play Sadat was black.

And if one thinks of the death toll of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (more than four million), talk of turning points in history, after the killing of nine people, sounds a little absurd.

It is almost hypocritical that anyone who professes to support human rights and the right to choose one s own lifestyle to argue this, but it happened and continues today.

With interest rates on government bonds in the US, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland at ridiculously low levels, investors are on a global quest for yield.

It is absurd and troubling to spend 1 billion on three days of meetings under any circumstances (since there are much cheaper ways to have such meetings and much better uses for the money).

The IMF really does need to listen to its critics and constantly to seek better ways to accomplish its aims. But it is patently absurd to charge that misguided IMF policy advice is the main reason why debt crisis countries face austerity.

But it is patently absurd to charge that misguided IMF policy advice is the main reason why debt crisis countries face austerity.

The financial industry complains that efforts to force greater equity funding would curtail lending, but this is just nonsense in a general equilibrium setting.

And yet it is absurd to compare the power of the two phenomena, or to suggest that in the confrontation with the butchers of Mosul and Palmyra, the democracies face a strategic challenge analogous to that of the Nazi Wehrmacht.

And then, when the government reduced the size of the absurdly expensive, but popular, funded pension system (2011 2014), Tusk attempted to compensate voters by pumping all additional free resources into family benefits.

It is sad to me how Georgia continues to deceive itself in such absurd ways and the biggest share of the blame for that falls on Georgia s bull headed policies towards these breakaway republics since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Negotiations to de alert the 2,000 nuclear weapons that remain at absurdly dangerous, Cold War era launch readiness have never really started.

Surely there is at least as much natural demand for commodity bonds as there is for credit default swaps and some of the bizarrely complicated derivatives that are currently traded!

Negotiations to de alert the 2,000 nuclear weapons that remain at absurdly dangerous, Cold War era launch readiness have never really started.