Participants mocked his ministry as an absurd example of the top-down attempts to change the system that are doomed for lack of public participation.

After months when the trial's rancor made the case seem an absurd example of legal wrangling, the verdict today seemed almost anticlimactic.

The flaw in such thinking is that it dismisses an entire genre by noting the most absurd examples possible.

I started thinking, What would be the most absurd example of how the Government and the media could convince people to fear and hate?

An absurd but telling example came in a dinner party discussion about garbage last night.

It's not a level playing field, and Azerbaijan is an absurd example of that.

Take one absurd example.

We can best illustrate this with two absurd examples.

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

This is an absurd example of how bad it can get when we allow individual interests and the industry to govern policy.