Though the prediction was greeted with widespread skepticism, that goal now looks increasingly plausible even if war costs in Iraq continue at current levels for another year.

She laughs off increasingly plausible questions about whether she has any plan to run for president in 2008.

In so doing, it is emerging as an increasingly plausible and potentially rewarding form of religious moral life consistent with the insights of the natural sciences.

As the news of Zhili victory in the First Jiangsu-Zhejiang War reached the battlefield, the likelihood of a stalemate appeared increasingly plausible.

By the 1950's science fiction writers had taken increasingly plausible measure of a place they knew would soon be visited.

Even at this early stage, comparisons with Edward Villella's start-up of Miami City Ballet in 1986, though still premature, are beginning to sound increasingly plausible.

Indeed, a cab ride that should have taken 10 minutes took nearly an hour, during which time it seemed increasingly plausible that the artist's invitation was instead a sardonic joke.

Suppose that, as seems increasingly plausible, the deteriorating job situation finally undermines the dogged optimism of America's consumers.

Though his aides carefully manage expectations, it is increasingly plausible that he could have the nomination sewn up by the end of the month.

Such a judgment of the modernist movement may take many more decades to be tested satisfactorily, but it seems increasingly plausible as time goes by.