Sentences with phrase «extreme unlikelihood»

That value might lie anywhere on the scale between extreme unlikelihood, which would give the deduction a minimal value, to virtual certainty, which would mean that it would be assessed at a figure very close to that which would be reached if one made the definite assumption that the contingency would occur.

Lord Carswell observed that the chance of a supervening event occurring may be anywhere on a scale between extreme unlikelihood to virtual certainty.

These calculations are made assuming that each year's temperature is an independent draw from a stable distribution, and so their extreme unlikelihood is more of a statement about the model used, rather than the natural vs. anthropogenic question.

There is every reason to accept them as authentic; their very vividness, the fact that the tradition has misunderstood the first two (v. 33 makes them examples of self - denial) and the extreme unlikelihood of anyone but Jesus using a Zealot assassin as an example (cf. the Labour Racketeer!)