Well, it's pretty hard to tell, Mr. Topper.

But surely you don't believe that preposterous rot, old fellow, what?

I put my request in an absurd, almost insolent form.

I cannot of course believe in this absurd invisibility story

You place an absurd value on the cheapest of human commodities.

They aren't opening, Gregor said to himself, caught up in some absurd hope.

We must, however, remain rational in this regard and not make ridiculous demands.

Fortunately, the Council reconsidered this absurd and unacceptable classification.

This means that houses are starting to sink, roads are breaking up and lamp posts are leaning at crazy angles.

Their relationship is the first of many conflicts between the sisters and The Elders.

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It costs a pig farmer in Northern Ireland today 70 to produce a pig he gets 58 in return when he sells it.

Is it not striking that Parliament, as one of the few Community institutions which endeavours to comply with the con cept of the Founding Fathers, runs the risk, by being the only elected body, of becoming the victim thereof?

This is illustrated by absurd examples such as the taxi boycott in Brussels, problems with school exchange programmes and much else besides.

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which have since come under a certain amount of criticism, most recently from Mr Kellet Bowman.

We have gone over the ground several times before. The President of the Commission, Mr Thorn, made a very positive statement in his programme speech just last month.

If, in such a concerted action, we fail to muster all our authority and put forward a clear point of view, we shall risk losing our opportunity of influencing the course of events in the dialogue with our Japanese partners.

I am unhappy about the facile demagogy of this absurd form of sexism, which is reductive and demonises masculinity.

Add to this the undervaluing of nurturing and caring responsibilities, which feeds the absurd thought that housewives are less productive.

That is why I find this report by Mr Howitt not just laughable in many of its absurd demands, but dangerous.

Finally, we are also pleased that the Commission has not put forward the absurd idea of a Congress.

Gods were finally able to come down literally from the heavens and rescue the hero in the most extreme and dangerous, even absurd situations.

The rain had passed away only the water pipe went on shedding tears with an absurd drip, drip outside the window.

This is one of the perverse effects of an over developed society, whereby medicine that we take to make us better sometimes makes us ill.

The forces of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych foolishly stuffed ballots and intimidated the country s electoral commission to an absurd degree.

The forces of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich foolishly stuffed ballots and intimidated the country s electoral commission to an absurd degree.

Biafra wrote the band's lyrics, most of which were political in nature and displayed a sardonic, sometimes absurdist, sense of humor despite their serious subject matter.

It would be interpreted as a demonstration of the fragility of the European governments in the face of the pressures and threats which are not even particularly veiled of Soviet diplomacy, and as a sign of the vulnerability of the Atlantic Alliance which would seem disunited and incapable of honouring the undertakings it gave unanimously four years ago.

The Commission should take a look at the UNDCP reports, but should stop bothering us with absolutely absurd proposals such as this.

Some Members of this House took a ridiculous approach in saying I should be recommending that people eat more oranges and vegetables.

But I turn principally to what has been described by the Council as the second step.

Mr Welsh (ED). I really rise merely to draw Members' attention to the quite ludicrous rubbish spoken by Mr Key.

I call upon the Commissioner and the Commission to knock all their heads together urgently in order to reach a solution to this absurd state of affairs.

After all, medieval alchemists engaged in what we now consider an absurd search for ways to transform base metals into gold.

It was left to individual citizens, often through public stances of preposterous courage, to realize that document s basic premises.

The life of Vaclav Havel, who is stepping down as president of the Czech Republic, could serve as inspiration for one of Havel's own absurdist plays.

He had studied to be a lawyer, but rarely practiced, one of the running jokes being that he took great pride in losing his cases.

President in Office, we are witnessing an absurd situation where a simple mutual recognition measure of sales promotion is blocked in your Council.

I do not accept the amendments tabled by the Green Group, which go too far, not least on the somewhat absurd eco labelling proposals.

The suggestion that the European Union cannot fund ventures that are not permitted in any one Member State opens an absurd and dangerous precedent.

Even Wilders, with his absurd call to ban the Koran, clearly believes that there are limits for his opponents, of course, not for himself.

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A one size fits all approach to water law can have absurd results, for example in respect of the Scotch malt whisky industry, despite its established environmental friendliness over 200 years.

This stems in part from the absurd action of the Socialists who wanted to cancel the last session in April because they do not want to work on 1 May.