Sentences with phrase «how improbable»

From the judge's perspective, the statistician would testify about how improbable it would be that a defendant would have just the right pair of shoes, with just the right sole pattern, as compared to police observations of the murder's physical evidence.

To be sure, it's not mathematically impossible, but it's far beyond any reasonable doubt; the qualified expert will be able to quantify how improbable we're talking about here better than I can, but we're not talking about one in a million, we're talking about one in a trillion trillion trillion.

With a beta coming sometime this summer, we're hoping to find out more about how Improbable plans to pull off this incredibly ambitious battle royale mode and survival game.

In addition, it provides some insights on market timing, and how improbable it is for you to outperform an on - going investment by regularly trying to time the market:

«Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.»

How improbable would it be for celebrities, in the age of social media, to be set up by Twitter, after a tabloid fabricated their romance?

The reactions perfectly capture the scale of the moment, making it clear how improbable the play was.

If you would like to see exactly how the improbable can happen, you can use the computer simulation of life's development called Avida.

He wanted intellectual assurance; he wanted to understand how the improbable conception would take place.

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.

If it seems like it could happen to a biologist, then next week biologists will say it is a fact regardless of how improbable it is.

Former FBI special agent and current Yale Law professor Asha Rangappa lays out how improbable this would be in a post on Just Security:

Speaking of Samsung, how improbable is it that the scandal - plagued company is riding high even though its de facto leader awaits a judgement on a bribery charge and its smartphone profits blew up with the batteries of its last generation of phones?

Business Insider spoke with party officials and pollsters in the most crucial counties within those states to see how the improbable Trump victory took place.

Not exact matches

The lobstermen detailed their improbable journey in their new memoir Cousins Maine Lobster: How One Food Truck Became a Multi-Million Dollar Business.

But Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, have given no indication of how they would proceed, and aides say privately that Republican leaders view the possibility of Mr. Mueller's firing as too improbable to warrant hypothetical discussions.

I recall vividly, as a would - be intellectual, wondering how the major thinkers of the twenties through the forties had managed to believe in such improbable things.

January 31, 2012 at 9:19 am Report abuse o Chad @hippypoet «god is an idea, such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguably, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so be doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth all based on an idea... how is that different then being delusional?

god is an idea, such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguably, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so by doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth all based on an idea... how is that different from being delusional?

At the same time, it seems highly improbable that we will be rescued by a «philosophical vehicle,» no matter how new or coherent.

I went with «Improbable» because that's just how I am.

Let's take a look at how Cleveland did the impossible by coming back from a 3 - 1 series deficit against Golden State and focus on fun, improbable things like:

No matter how people articulate their hopes and fears regarding the title race everyone is agreed that is highly improbable for us to do it but not impossible.

However, with all the talk of improbable upsets and Cinderella stories, we wanted to know how unlikely the events of the past week were.

At its core, «Hijacking LaLiga: How Atlético Madrid Broke Barcelona and Real Madrid's Duopoly on Spanish Football» is centered on Atlético's improbable run to the league title nearly four full seasons ago (I can't believe it's been that long).

Reilly's claim is improbable given that the odds are in the per - thousand range, though it's perhaps indicative of how polarized some providers are on this issue.

«Henderson later described consulting as «the most improbable business on earth»: «Can you think of anything less improbable [sic] than taking the world's most successful firms, leaders in their businesses, and hiring people just fresh out of school and telling them how to run their businesses and they are willing to pay millions of dollars for this advice?»

An intricate tale of «medicine, monopoly and malice», Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low - cost Aids drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 — causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths — and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

BRIDGEPORT — Joe Ganim's improbable victory in the Democratic mayoral primary had many throughout the state wondering: How did a former mayor driven from office and into prison for corruption pull it off?

While it may be improbable that a colony of spiders survived a journey of 10,000 kilometers across the Indian Ocean, that is the most likely explanation for how the trapdoor spiders got to Kangaroo Island, the researchers conclude.

But how does the military guard against ideas that are so impossible or improbable that they're not worth a single dime?

How the molecules realize this improbable feat has remained a mystery up until this point.

How does adaptation still occur under such improbable conditions?

As fun and clever as the first half may be, by the end the story runs out of steam, unsure of how to resolve some impossible plot threads other than in the most improbable way.

Danny Boyle's brilliant new film, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, is the improbable tale of how innocence triumphs against the most seemingly impossible odds.

He knows how to create an emotional universe in which this kind of improbable thing doesn't seem a matter of screenwriting convenience, but destiny.

That seems improbable on movie with a reported $ 135 million production budget, but it's one way to make sense of how Rango came to be what it is, a strange ride more fun for adults than children.

Although Senate Democrats will not allow these cuts to take effect, the proposal demonstrates how House Republicans» intent to double down on sequestration and austerity measures will make increases to education funding exceedingly improbable.

Berkeley's David Kirp dug deep into how and why early education worked in Union City, N.J. Kirp explained in Improbable Scholars that Union City used those research - based, early education reforms to turn around a school system that had been one of New Jersey's worst.

One of the strangest things about today's twenty - four - hour news cycle of cable television and nonstop Internet blather is how it's made possible a veritable explosion of improbable, sometimes amusing, often absurd nonfacts, misnomers, and false narratives — e.g., President Obama is a Muslim from Kenya

How to Build a Girl By Caitlin Moran Harper Perennial • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780062335982 The rowdy first novel from the author of the best - selling feminist memoir / manifesto How to Be a Woman borrows events from Moran's own improbable life story, including her experiences as a teen critic for a British music magazine.

And like all experts, each new issue always seems to kick off with a somewhat innocuous disclosure, then evolves into a frenzied scramble... to be followed by a detailed explanation of how they always knew such a risk existed *, but in their opinion (just like the rest of the industry) it was considered a remote & improbable risk (that existed outside normal codes of industry practice).

There are few other signs of life in these large, ground - floor rooms, and those there are speak of suspension, abdication, displacement and substitution: a long heartrending letter from an artist explaining how personal crisis has forced him to withdraw (Kai Althoff); the politically and logistically improbable journey of a Picasso from the Netherlands to Palestine (Khaled Hourani); Tammy Wynette forever stuck on the line «I'll just keep on», never quite reaching «Til I get it right», the song's eponymous lyrical and melodic resolution (Ceal Floyer).

Throughout his work, improbable fashions are similarly commodified; Williams's machine - like reductiveness seems acutely aware of how stock images, B - movies, Abstract Expressionism, and even the carpet from «The Shining» can become formalist fodder to put on an iPhone case or a throw pillow.

Cherry picking a low improbable value for the CO2 temperature sensitivity (how much the global surface temperature increases when atmospheric CO2 increases)- and then illogically not mentioning the uncertainty in the sensitivity.

Fred, I don't see how your elaboration of your third tentative conclusion vitiates GG's observation that the observed similarity is improbable.

From that perspective, I am unable to see how the study can differentiate between a trend - induced improbable event and an oscillation - induced improbable event, in a post hoc analysis of a single event.

While it may not «accurately predict [ing] radiative forcing from CO2 better than chance, it seems improbable that it doesn't, considering how widely it is used by civilian and military people who are doing more than writing papers.

While it may not «accurately predict [ing] radiative forcing from CO2 better than chance,» it seems improbable that it doesn't, considering how widely it is used by by civilian and military people who are doing more than writing papers.

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