Sentences with phrase «improbable as»

Such a theory produces unique solutions (predictions) that are so specific, so detailed, and so precisely statistically improbable as to be strictly testable by reference to observations and / or experiment.

This is so improbable as to be laughable.

-LSB-...] you can accept all the basic tenets of greenhouse physics and still conclude that the threat of a dangerously large warming is so improbable as to be negligible, while the threat of real harm from climate - mitigation policies is already so high as to be worrying, that the cure is proving far worse than the disease is ever likely to be,» Ridley said in the 2011 Angus Millar speech on «Scientific Heresy,» reposted in its entirety at the skeptical blog Watts Up With That.

As improbable as it may seem, the extraordinary California dry spell of 2013 has continued well into the month of December, and there are virtually no prospects for relief over at least the next two weeks.

Rauschenberg had also made use of imagery derived from media coverage of the space program, so NASA's invitation was not as improbable as it might have seemed to some at the time.

With materials as improbable as dust, chocolate syrup and custom - made jigsaw puzzles, he has replicated for his camera famous images from art history and its social background.

Improbable as it might seem, such an event could wipe out the firm.

At some level of crisis, war is not impossible, improbable as that may be.

«As improbable as it sounds,» my uncle added, «the state of her mind won't stay the same.

The mere thought of it was perplexing, but stranger things have happened within FCA, so the thought of a Hellcat - powered 300 sedan, as improbable as it was, didn't seem too far - fetched for FCA.

As it stands, a John Carter sequel is roughly as improbable as someone being struck by lightning twice in one day.

(Or, if you like, as improbable as being transported to Mars, today or on any other day.)

Well, as improbable as Retro making a Star Fox racing spin - off may sound, Eurogamer sources have heard similar.

It's as if he felt he owed his fans a spectacle as grand and improbable as his fame.

Yet, as improbable as it may seem, «Selma» is the first feature - length film ever made about him.

Not as improbable as tetraneutrons, some might say, because in the standard model of particle physics tetraneutrons simply can't exist.

As improbable as it sounds, synthetic telepathy, as the technology is called, is getting closer to battlefield reality.

The head - to - head debate between Cameron and Miliband still looks improbable as empty chairing Cameron should he not show up would leave the electorate with the potential of Ed Miliband having a farcical Clint Eastwood moment.

Instead, Cuomo is facing a politically awkward challenge from a woman whose name is as improbable as her campaign.

The possibility of Chelsea letting their best striker leave in January is highly improbable as he is an important part of their plan to get back to the pinnacle of English football.

The consequences will in all eternity remain the consequences of a paradox, and hence in an ultimate view will be precisely as improbable as the Paradox itself; unless it is to be supposed that the consequences, which as such are derivative, have retroactive power to transform the Paradox, which would be about as reasonable as to suppose that a son had retroactive power to transform his own father.

Jana has already described several events of both kinds ¯ both happy arrangements of natural events and, on the other side, events so improbable as to appear to be miraculous.

As utterly improbable as it is, our only answer at this point is to say it's possible that all of those things just popped out of nothing via random combination of molecules»

Texas — improbable as it might seem — has the most explicitly pro-futile care law.

The late Professor Burkitt, in his little book Christian Beginning: (1924), advocated this view in all seriousness, improbable as it seems upon a further reconsideration of the evidence and especially in the light of Professor Lohmeyer's interpretation.

Thus Paul's repeated use of «all» is not as improbable as it might at first seem.

I was convinced that the evidence really does point to a man named Jesus who was, and is, the Son of God, as improbable as that was starting to seem.

All of this is a long way of saying: Debt - free by 40 is starting to sound as quaint and improbable as «Freedom 55.»

That scenario, unfortunately, is not as improbable as many might hope.

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

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.»

There were also bank statements, reserve estimates by an independent American geologist and historical records of dividends paid out to shareholders — which would have been improbable if, as the letter writer claimed, the company's mine in China was losing money.

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.

However, 1986 was also the year of triumph, as legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus won his most improbable Masters Championship at the age of 46.

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.

However, it is abundantly clear that the human race is as it is (this is no more than mere tautology), and so we can see that what may originally seem improbable is in fact the best explanation of a given circu.mstance.

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.

It is more probable that he should assume an appearance of ease, than that so very improbable a thing should be, as a man not afraid of going... into an unknown state.»

Each person who made the journey, each person who tacitly or actively acquiesced to the Nazi slaughter of the innocents as well those who opposed it, had to define and redefine the meaning of his or her career and life in improbable conditions of place, language, and tradition.

It seems, to me at least, highly improbable that I can, as a human, conceive of the «beginning of time».

It is extremely improbable, however, that writing as a special technique will disappear in the foreseeable future.

That is so hypothetical and improbable you may as well say legislation is the only way we are going to get leprechauns elected as Senators.

There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority, that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.»

Having lived during the Holocaust, Dubois regarded the establishment of Israel as profoundly improbable and nearly sublime.

I don't dismiss the possibility of demons, possession, hunters named Sam and Dean who are too gorgeous and may show up on my doorstep one day carrying salt shotguns and holy water... * ahem * but I digress... I don't dismiss those possibilities, but I do see them as infinitely rare to the point of almost improbable.

The very idea that history should have a meaning strikes many of our contemporaries as highly improbable, maybe even nonsensical.

As far as the empty tomb goes, if it actually happened, it could have several explanations other than an improbable magical resurrectioAs far as the empty tomb goes, if it actually happened, it could have several explanations other than an improbable magical resurrectioas the empty tomb goes, if it actually happened, it could have several explanations other than an improbable magical resurrection.

Now, it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind - bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some have chosen to see it as the final proof of the NON-existence of God.

Miracle stories which conflict with well - tested scientific evidence are to be regarded as extremely improbable.

(James 1:27) The global vision of American evangelicalism began in an improbable place, 1950s South Korea, as Americans encountered....