The Olympic Committee forced this comic veteran to change the name to its initials in 2005, a suitably laughable development in a long career of chuckles.
Take Letterman: by invoking Kirstie Alley, the formerly svelte star of Fat Actress, he gives the somewhat abstract notion of port security a recognizable shape and offers the audience a laughable absurdity in place of a maddening one.
P. strategist Ken Duberstein and House Speaker Newt Gingrich with the idea of writing a budget together--a prospect the Republicans found laughable after fighting a bruising campaign over that very issue.
The White House stumbled all over itself, organizing and reorganizing, setting up a laughable Office of Global Communications that served as more of a domestic PR mouthpiece than a real office of strategic communications.
Despite initial interest, UK broadcasters have failed to secure broadcasting rights with Froch's promoters Hennessy Sports to show the fight, with the credit crunch being blamed for a deal not being struck, which Froch calls "laughable" and a "disgrace".
American college kids, whatever their charms, are a laughable proxy for Homo sapiens.
To short circuit that process a major revamp of the Copyright Act would be necessary a laughable proposition in current Washington.
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It is perhaps a laughable commentary on the current mania for monetary stimulus that this feature is what seems to have inspired the most criticism of Bitcoin.
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Anywho, not long after hearing a laughable article suggesting that Blu-ray decks would outsell DVD players by August (yes, of 2008), along comes another that makes a little more sense.
And knowing Jerry, what a laughable notion that is anyway.
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It is perhaps a laughable commentary on the current mania for monetary stimulus that this feature is what seems to have inspired the most criticism of Bitcoin.. The knock on Bitcoin is that its fixed nature will cause an inevitable destructive deflation.
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He assumed that he could deregulate 12% to 15% of the apartments a year, a laughable figure that embittered even those residents whom management's private detectives didn't try to evict. (Mr. Speyer's firm, tellingly, had made its name in commercial real estate, not residential.) Mr. Speyer had overestimated cash flow and the pool of would-be affluent renters, and had underestimated maintenance costs.
None was more grotesque than inserting the young Anakin as a ghost in place of the old in Return of the Jedi - a truly laughable, woeful, and quite possibly criminal change.
Mr. BLAIR: The response by Mr. Brown was a bit laughable because there is no way, I mean, black or white, that you're going to try to be rude in the first place to somebody holding a gun, especially as a black man.
Yet residents here would find the idea that Philadelphia is a green city laughable.
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The company said claims the States would save millions bringing services in house were "laughable" and that such a move would be unfeasible and costly.
Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible.
Personally, I find it laughable that you have provided such a glowing report of business practices in Malaysia.
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The judge issued the fine, though a federal prosecutor earlier told the court that such a fine is almost laughable.
The notion that a peaceful PLO-dominated entity could be implanted in the midst of Israeli territory and not represent a security nightmare is laughable.
Such political irony would be laughable were it not symptomatic of a underlying consensus among politicians and pundits that government is the solution, and not the problem.
Fear of living in a surveillance society increasingly seems laughable given the way that we live today.
The idea that such achievements were a matter of luck is frankly laughable.
Using your own article as a reference point of fact is laughable, for the article makes no point substantiated by facts.
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It could be a savvy move by the once laughable car company that now has the world's leading automakers looking over their shoulders.
Normally, such a proposal would be considered politically laughable because Medicare provides seniors with medical insurance they would otherwise be unable to purchase.
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Officials at the defence ministry's publicity department writing in the People's Daily Overseas Edition dismiss claims by US companies and media about a Chinese hacker threat as "laughable" and "unprofessional absurd speculation".
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