How can they credibly argue that it would entrench incumbents when 95 percent of House incumbents get re-elected under the current rules?
But nobody could argue credibly that Tolkien wrote literature deserving of the the Nobel prize.
With Federal abortion funding again available for rape and incest, the Government argues credibly that the states' obligations resume, at least as to rape and incest.
Among the rare states profitable at decolonization was India, to which scholars credibly argue that Uganda, Malaysia and Angola may be included.
Legal experts said today that lawyers for the President could credibly argue that any interaction between Mr. Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky was not material to the Jones sexual misconduct suit.
But at least nobody can credibly argue that baseball fans will not come to a Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
After all, someone has to forestall more Chernobyls, and it is difficult to argue credibly for reform and revolution at the same time.
Yet no one can credibly argue that all of America is unsafe.
Until this year, Mr. Gorbachev could credibly argue that there was no serious alternative to his leadership.
Is Mr Matolcsy, who had openly and harshly attacked the European semester before, able to argue credibly in favour of strengthening economic governance?