Sentences with phrase «as unlikely»

It is also a good idea to protect against any other problems, such as theft, vandalism or riots, as unlikely as they may seem.

It may sound as an unlikely reason that determines your car insurance.

As unlikely as it may seem, kidnappings are a possibility, even more so in certain countries.

Even if your things fall victim to something as unlikely as a volcanic blast, renters insurance will reimburse you.

As they unlikely have another source of income, thus they can borrow money from life insurance policy.

Had the public chosen to march in the streets (as unlikely as that would be), they might have missed the obvious fact: our client was free from negligence and deserved a significant compensation.

As unlikely as it is to happen, what if the ABA did try to put in place a new regulatory framework — one that governed not lawyers but also other actors: entities as well as individuals who are not lawyers?

One commenter, however, says this is about as unlikely as a suggestion «that John Kerry would have nominated J. Michael Luttig.»

Or is a unified front between so many players as unlikely as, well, as unlikely as a $ 50 billion Ponzi scheme that went undiscovered for at least a decade?

«It seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to say you couldn't, I don't know, stick something under the fingernail, smack him in the face.

By 2 July, The Times was gloating over the attention it had drawn to the topic and suggesting that Mr Straw could be seen as an unlikely hero.

Various Cabinet members are opposed to supporting an amendment they see as unlikely to pass by the needed super-majority.

Annan and Hargreaves attempted to wrap it up scientifically by assuming these guesses, being from prominent researchers, quqlified as expert opinions, as opposed to just guesses, so that Bayesian stats were justified, then they applied a slightly skewed distribution model over it to give bounds, and hence rule out as unlikely the higher and lower numbers.

Complete human extinction strikes the author as unlikely due to our «unique combination of intelligence and a strong survival instinct.

I don't hold any IPCC positions as unlikely, which what I call denialists do, and some others lean towards below 50 % likely.

Funny, I argue about CS quite often with AGW skeptics, and the only time I ever use any argument related to CS anything above 3C is to say that, Lindzen's estimates of < 1C is just as unlikely as the estimates that are above 4.5 C. Outside of that, I say the IPCC central figures are probably about close to reality.

But while senior EPA officials have said that states can expect some changes in the finalized rule, it's generally seen as unlikely that it will significantly reduce the carbon cuts required by states.

Lindzen and Spencer's estimations of ~ 0.5 C is just as unlikely as the estimations at the other end at 10 - 12C

If you get to toss in Spencer and Lindzen's unlikely estimations then I get to throw back in the higher estimations that are just as unlikely as theirs.

Physically, that's unlikely; but not nearly as unlikely as you think.

Anything else is unsupportable scientifically (barring something as unlikely and unpredictable as an asteroid strike or world - wide volcanism).

8 — In the UK, where Climate Home is based, secretary of state for energy and climate change Amber Rudd may emerge as an unlikely green champion, emboldened by her key role in delivering a Paris deal.

But that is as unlikely an outcome as is the idea of removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Glencore released a report ahead of its AGM that revealed the company clearly views a 2 °C outcome as unlikely.

«In light of previously suggested driving mechanisms, our analysis renders two of the prime suspects, i.e. landscape [9, 18, 20] and climate change [15, 18, 21, 37], as UNLIKELY explanatory factors for this major decline in aerial insect biomass in the investigated protected areas.»

With the comfort of my Asus ProArt, I now can see that panel (c) does seem to rule out 4C as unlikely.

Chevron still views the climate goals agreed to in the Paris Agreement as unlikely.

So although it's correct not to discount B as unlikely, it does beg the question why the temperature record is so close to C. I see Steve commented previously on this in his January 16th 2008 post:

«As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming,» writes the NYT's Justin Gillis.

Rather than dismissing low - carbon outcomes as unlikely, the report concludes, Shell's long - term energy outlooks ought to more seriously consider the implications of a 2 °C climate scenario.

Meaning, i see it as unlikely that the OCO and GLory launch failures were unrelated and due to different problems.

The resulting photographs subvert the disembodied experience of watching a screen, and ultimately return us to its surface as an unlikely point of contact and physical orientation.

References to the history of painting — from Baroque and Mannerist painting to Imagism and Abstract Expressionism — are present throughout McKinniss» work, acting as the unlikely unifying quality in his seemingly irreconcilable modes of making.

Coming and going largely as they pleased, they had turned an elegantly understated administrative office into a hive of creative activity and emerged as an unlikely inspiration to protest movements around the globe.

This feat seemed as unlikely, the critic Clement Greenberg commented, as America producing a great wine.

Exploring the Wakefield Permanent Art Collection and archival material relating to Henry Moore as part of his initial archive research, Des Hughes will focus on the recent removal of Henry Moor's bronze sculpture, Draped Reclining Figure (1979) from public display in Castleford as an unlikely alternative route into exploring the work of Henry Moore and British Modernism.

Just as unlikely is that the show, at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, can only be described as major in scale and scope.

We have never aimed, though, to be «the first» with anyone's work; yet we are just as unlikely to avoid experimentation.

And as unlikely as it may seem that the indomitable Hambling would ever do as she was told, I find myself interviewing her mid-Howard-Hodgkin exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

A sly, protean figure as unlikely as he is gifted, Otero made a tremendous splash when he arrived in New York from Chicago in 2009.

As unlikely and out of left field as this rumor may have seemed, Richard Branson did indeed make an announcement at E3.

The suggestions that the next PlayStation will block used games is just as unlikely as when it was suggested in 2005 that the PlayStation 3 would block sales of used games following a patent application, Pachter said in a statement released to industry news site GamesIndustry International.

The characters of Joel and Ellie have forever been immortalized as an unlikely, but memorable video game duo.

Haley Sampson's 2017 GOTY Pick As unlikely as it may sound, this year's lineup of games didn't impress me.

If you told us a year ago that Bungie would not only be developing their next big game for the PlayStation 4, but would make it their platform of choice, we would have most likely dismissed your sentiment immediately, as the notion at the time would have seemed as unlikely as developers Naughty Dog, behind the legendary Uncharted franchise and The Last of Us on the PS3 developing for the Xbox 360 or Xbox One.

But of all the Xbox exclusive titles that Microsoft could find itself harangued into making by a coterie of passionate fans in 2016, perhaps it was inevitable that it would be Halo Wars, as unlikely as that might seem to some of you.

And a new paint job is just as unlikely to shake the Police.

Still hoping for a physical copy, as unlikely as that is.

A Botfly as an unlikely souvenir.

Consider these tours or activities as unlikely to surprise.