Sentences with phrase «highly improbable»

Although it is highly improbable that children adopted through an intercountry adoption will meet the Title IV - E adoption assistance requirements, States can not in policy categorically exclude these children from consideration since the statute does not authorize such an exclusion.

Over the past two weeks, these coins have demonstrated inverse trading patterns, with BCH surging to levels that would have seemed highly improbable just a few weeks ago.

We must observe that the FR remains silent to the obvious precondition, namely that such an option can only be considered possible if (and if only) the Hellenic Republic espouses the ICCs through diplomatic protection, which remains a highly improbable choice.

Overhear member of staff muttering that she, ie lady DJ, is probably pregnant, which, given her advanced age and present state of medical science, is highly improbable.

Typically, one adopts either set; and mixing and matching is not only difficult but may be highly improbable if not impossible.

Whilst it is not impossible for a Company to have a zero gender pay gap it is highly improbable that the gap would be zero when measured on both a mean and a median basis.

That the words church and religion were regarded as synonymous seems highly improbable, particularly in view of the fact that the contemporary state constitutional provisions dealing with the subject of establishment used definite phrases such as «religious sect,» «sect,» or «denomination.»

For example, in Ontario (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario) v. Noriega, E. H, 2014 ONCPSD 31, defence counsel argued (unsuccessfully) that an allegation of sexual misconduct «was highly improbable in light of the involvement of medical students in [the] practice and nurses» involved in the complainant's care.

It is highly improbable that states as diverse as Maine, Connecticut, Virginia and Nevada all require regular reliance on supermax confinement.

It is possible (but highly improbable) for someone with no psychic ability to win Randi's prize if they made several very lucky guesses in a row.

Rather, once the science reaches a 95 % CL (confidence, not probability), it's highly improbable that it is wrong.

In effect, the ICO has labeled Jones «guilty» of the offence so that it is now highly improbable that any court may lawfully convict him on tainted FOIA charges anyway.»

Highly improbable if not impossible.

Going by that seems to me a better idea than picking a highly improbable value and building one's whole argument on that (as Lindzen and NIPCC do).

From my perspective a «black swan» event is an event which is fairly probable under the true distribution of the underlying data, but highly improbable if we assume a Gaussian distribution.

But the Nobel turns out to be the same Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore — and the report's findings are highly improbable.

There is always some possibility that there is something out there on the fringes that's having an unknown influence, but given the large amount that is known on a wide range of factors, what's left that could have a significant influence becomes highly improbable.

That doesn't imply that the rare events or individually highly improbable outcomes would not sum to something very important, but obviously that must be explained more directly.

Since AGW is negligible, and beneficent if real, the «black swan» would be some highly improbable serious negative effect.

You persist in this belief even though the observed series of corrections is highly improbable given presumably symmetric errors as reflected in the symmetric error bars assigned to the curves.

These showed that some dangerous climate change was already taking place and that catastrophic events once thought highly improbable were now seen as likely (see panel).

As discussed in my book, various outlandish claims have been made as to the benefits of all this, but they are all far in the future, impossible to clearly document, and highly improbable, like everything else in the alarmist energy fantasy.

You just believe in one that has no proof and is highly improbable, only believed by an incredibly small number of people who actually are involved in science.

While it is theoretically possible to imagine a situation in which every proxy used just happened to relate to a time just before the spike, and the next just after it, the uncertainty of time of the proxies and the method which they used to reflect that in the reconstruction makes it HIGHLY improbable that the excursion would be lost.

BTW, I understand both of those (highly improbable) alternative mechanisms perfectly well (see Part 2: The Improbable IPCC Mechanism» at # 87.1.1)

Let's say the new US President takes the bull by the horns and cuts 50 % of the US CO2 emissions starting the day after he takes office (maybe not completely impossible but highly improbable).

Of course geological history suggests that neither run away warming nor catastrophic cooling (within the time scales of years to several decades) are anything other than highly improbable (without some catastrophe such as a major asteroid strike), but it is the job of military planners to have some contingency for all eventualities.

For this reason, I see the forthcoming argument as somewhat artificial, and less likely to be informative (scientifically) than the contents of your previous thread regarding probabilistic assessments of climate sensitivity, where zero sensitivity is highly improbable.

It is basically the hypothesis judged best to assume true unless it can be shown to be highly improbable — in other words, when its truth or falsity remains uncertain, it is wiser to assume it to be true than false.

The forcings used to drive the model simulation are independent of the tree - ring temperatures, so for such a close match to arise by chance alone is highly improbable.

And we laypeople should be considering worst - case scenarios (even though highly improbable), not best - case scenarios, since the stakes are so high — hope for the best, expect the worst.

An alternative along these lines which seems fairly popular nowadays is known as Bayesian calculus, where if a given theory is viewed as relatively unlikely but makes a prediction which is also seen as highly improbable (given the rest of what we believe we know) the theory is viewed as more likely and the alternatives to it which predicted something else are viewed as less likely, including the alternative which was dominant.

Such action would have required collusion with multiple scientists in various independent organisations which we consider highly improbable.

«Edward Burtynsky views the world through a large - format camera and finds beauty in highly improbable places.

Again, not entirely impossible but, highly improbable and it demonstrates a lack of care when it comes to continuity.

Whether that moment is impossible (exploring a ruined dome city on the floor of the ocean) or merely highly improbable (living the life of a night vision goggle - wearing super-spy), games take us out of our time and place and put us into a new one.

You can attempt to train your dog to Leave it or Come; however, in order to be successful you must be able to do so every time the cat defecates and that is highly improbable for most people.

It is highly improbable to produce an entire litter of show quality pups.

While unlikely, indeed highly improbable for public sector investors, a sudden rush for the exits can not be ruled out completely.»

This strategy is predicated on an outcome of hyperinflation that by all accounts is highly improbable.

While it's not impossible to do this, it's highly improbable.

It is highly improbable that you will get approved for a refinance home loan unless at least six months since your bankruptcy has been dismissed have passed.

The mainstream application to finance came about in 2007 when Naseem Taleb, In his book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, used Black Swans as a metaphor for the low probability of destructive events with extreme negative returns occurring in financial markets.

More importantly, it is highly improbable that these people would buy books at all in the first place.

This obviously piqued my interest — firstly, because at a time when there are 55 different news sources writing about Kindle 2.0 (including LA Times saying Kindle 2.0 might have a colour screen — which is highly improbable) it's great to find something else to write about.

Though their meeting is highly improbable, Jamaican American Natasha and Korean American Daniel, both facing serious family pressure, find unexpected, life - changing love over the course of one New York City day.

Given the numbers you're dealing with, the rich / lean concern is highly improbable.

Seems highly improbable to me.

A particular teaching strategy may yield no academic gains, but it would seem highly improbable that there are too many (any?)

If the tools themselves are problematic, political credibility and deeper - order change are highly improbable.