Sentences with phrase «for improbable»

It is how the phrase «David and Goliath» has come to be embedded in our language — as a metaphor for improbable victory.

It was not to be, the world now knows, but this year's Open championship will forever be remembered not for the winner, but for the improbable story of the man who almost won.

Today, the phrase «David and Goliath» represents a more secular meaning as a metaphor for improbable victories by a weaker party, better known as the «underdog».

Ivy is known for her improbable outfits, and, bless her soul, she isn't toning it down a bit.

, avid professional trainers that have a seemingly impossible problem, looking for the improbable answer?

The niffler (kleptomaniac platypus) is too cute for words, and the bird / snake hybrid makes for an improbable but entertaining battle sequence.

Ivy is known for her improbable outfits, and, bless her soul, she isn't toning it down a bit.

The namechecking of Dickens is used by the film - makers as an excuse for the improbable amount of chance and coincidence that takes over the film.

Physicists reason that if the universe is unnatural, with extremely unlikely fundamental constants that make life possible, then an enormous number of universes must exist for our improbable case to have been realized.

In the study, Baco - Taylor and her team articulate two potential reasons for the improbable success of these hardy reefs.

Keylor Navas failed to collect a cross into the box and Matuidi was in the right place at the right time to poke the ball home for an improbable equaliser.

However, there is an absolute physical limit for improbable events to happen in our universe.

After starting the season 9 - 2, the Ravens have dropped three - straight games, which easily could have been four if it wasn't for an improbable 30 - yard catch and run by Ray Rice on a 4th - and - 29 against the San Diego Chargers.

But now, only six months later, after a series of major risks, leaps of faith and shrewd decisions (like a good insurance policy), Chapman's is set for an improbable comeback.

Not exact matches

We've tracked Improbable for a long time and think the idea of simulation - as - a-service is a really interesting investment.

Baseless provocation has become big business in politics lately — take Brexit and the improbable candidacy of Donald Trump for two particularly vivid examples — and, if they have any sense, marketers are taking notes.

For example, Rosen's firm Accountability Research argues that IFRS makes it easy for unscrupulous companies to recognize revenues when cash has not yet been received — and even in cases where collection may be highly improbabFor example, Rosen's firm Accountability Research argues that IFRS makes it easy for unscrupulous companies to recognize revenues when cash has not yet been received — and even in cases where collection may be highly improbabfor unscrupulous companies to recognize revenues when cash has not yet been received — and even in cases where collection may be highly improbable.

As compromise on the gun issue remained improbable, Sen. Chris Murphy stood on the Senate floor for most of Wednesday and into Thursday, saying he would remain there «until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together.»

Here's a quick intro to the two front - runners and, — since neither is an inevitable choice — another couple of guys who make for more improbable but interesting picks.

With our system of checks and balances, every article goes through layers of editors, each responsible for flagging passages that sound improbable, illogical, naive, or unclear.

«Between 2 % and 5 % for stocks, bonds and commodities are expected long term returns for global financial markets that have been pushed to the zero bound, a world where substantial real price appreciation is getting close to mathematically improbable.

The House is further behind in the process, because of internal divisions, but it is improbable that the House will aim for a budget resolution providing deficits two - thirds larger than the figure negotiated by the Senate majority.

An article published by Bloomberg — LINK — this morning started off with a rather improbable assertion: «The new fixed - income haven is, of all things, the market for junk bonds.»

Hinckley's people remain on call for emergencies, which can arise under improbable conditions.

It is considered fantastically improbable for, not only the universe to provide the physical laws necessary for life to arise, but combined with the unlikelihood of the human race being exactly as it is now, we are faced with an extraordinarily improbable event.

Some people still argue that it is wildly improbable for a given self - replicating molecule to form at a given point (although they usually don't state the «givens,» but leave them implicit in their calculations).

[7] This principle can be applied throughout history - it may be considered extremely improbable for someone to have conquered the known world by the age of 33.

«I don't know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.»

I'm happy that we're starting to reach a level of understanding, but you must first realize that a) I am not willing to accept the impossible, however I am willing to accept the highly improbable if there's evidence enough for it.

I know I'm not going to win you over with the idea of just how improbable something is, but would you not even for a moment think about how unlikely a humanoid species lightyears away could evolve so similarly to us along with such a similar religion.

It sounds most improbable, but Richard ran for a congressional seat in Brooklyn, on a left - of - mainstream Democratic ticket, and I explored doing the same in Johnstown, Pennsylvania» the seat that not long afterward the Vietnam veteran Jack Murtha won.

Those theories are so improbable they are about like someone saying they won the lottery every day for 1,000 years.

What's more, you hurt them for the selfish reason of bettering your chances at an improbable reward.

Cellular complexity is the nail in the coffin for an atheistic materialism, where you are required to believe life arose from naturalistic processes that are so vastly improbable, they are for all intents and purposes impossible.

It is like saying that electricity is improbable because men were obliged for so long to live without its benefits and facilities!

7 There is nothing improbable in the story, if we assume that Jesus has been in Jerusalem and its neighborhood before, and made contacts there; and there is good reason for believing that he had.

The circumstances required for sexual reproduction (different in kind from what I mean by «metaphysical division,» although a different branch on the same path of interaction between matter and the élan vital) by more complex entities is of course still more particular (and improbable without the intentional element).

Any of these views, including the atheist one, is an admissible interpretation of the evidence: a tribal nationalism, belief in their tribal god, and an unexpected and improbable escape could account for the rise of the exodus - faith and its subsequent centrality in the religio - political history of the Jews.

In fact, looking around the world today, the most hopeful sign I see is the human rights movement, which operates from the unprovable and, on its face, improbable moral conviction that all humans are equal and that no human should be abused by any other for any reason whatsoever.

This chronological parallelism notwithstanding, nothing would seem more improbable than a bringing into dialogue of these two works, for not only do they spring from disciplines breathtakingly remote from one another (political theory, neurology), they appear to have radically different centers of interest.

Yet the collisions or near misses dictated by these theories are inherently very improbable, perhaps only ten for the entire life of our galaxy during the past five billion years.32 With so few planets in existence, we could hardly assume that there would be much life elsewhere, at least not in our galaxy.

[Dennett's] limited and superficial book reads like a caricature of a caricature - for if Richard Dawkins has trivialized Darwin's richness by adhering to the strictest form of adaptationist argument in a maximally reductionist mode, then Dennett, as Dawkins» publicist, manages to convert an already vitiated and improbable account into an even more simplistic and uncompromising doctrine.

«Don't be ridiculous; for here He is now loving the most incongruous, the most improbable, of all people, the Assyrians — murderers, from your point of view, plunderers, godless, amoral!»

One might put it that determinism appears at either end of the process of cosmic evolution, but in antithetically opposed forms: at the lower end it is forced along the line of the most probable for lack of freedom; at the upper end it is an ascent into the improbable through the triumph of freedom.

That is what I have tried to do, and it has led me to accept, however improbable they may appear, the reality and the consequences of the major cosmic process which, for want of a better name, I have called «human planetization».

However, for every very rare improbable outcome benefiting somebody there is an equally rare improbable outcome ruining somebody's life, yes?

This stringency seems to provide some grounds for the type of probability - based anti-evolutionary argument that Dawkins sets out to refute in Climbing Mount Improbable, and provides some support for the arguments Johnson makes in Reason and the Balance concerning the unlikelihood of major evolutionary transitions occurring solely by Darwinian mechanisms.

Something like this, too, is what we need today — to have a song in our hearts as we see the United Nations crumbling, peace retreating to an improbable future, and God alone knows what awful fate in store for us and our proud civilization.

Even in Middle - eastern culture, there are still many white people, so although it is unlikely for him to have appeared as a «white person», it's still not improbable, it does however contradict the cynic principles in Christianity, as they define him by what they believe would constitute their creator as being great or perfect as a manifestation equal to his greatness, but this was the exact mistake the Jews made, and why they disregarded Jesus when he came in the Flesh, his appearance can be debated on, but just like his birthday, or day of death.

Also, I think most religious ritual seems pecular to the atheist and I think there is a tendency for something to stick out in your mind if you can't imagine why some one would believe something improbable without evidence.