Sentences with phrase «in improbable»

Dear Dr. Chu — Even in the improbable event that the whole world halves its CO2 emissions, IPCC's own models show that the resulting temperature reduction is climatologically insignificant.

In other words, there is no need to include environmentalists, governments, universities, scientists, etc. in these improbable, interconnected web of deceit that is trying to hide uncertainties from the public or policy makers.

These compositions include memories, associations of words, ideas, observations and thoughts that unfold in improbable juxtapositions.

My drawings typically include one or two figures involved in an improbable action or working at some curious task.

Inspirations include Claes Oldenburg's «Proposed Colossal Monuments» (1965 — 69), playfully outlandish watercolors of oversized objects in improbable urban locations (the middle of a busy intersection, in lieu of the Statue of Liberty, for example), and Christo and Jeanne - Claude's formalist cloth outdoor works such as «Valley Curtain» (1970 — 72) and «Running Fence» (1972 — 76).

Blood drips from walls in improbable amounts, fog sweeps the landscape there's plenty of gore everywhere.

Ever since my Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA National Championship in improbable and spectacular fashion last month, I find I'm more optimistic and increasingly willing to give people and situations the benefit of the doubt.

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.

COWBOYS & ALIENS is an exhilarating and stunningly successful exercise in the improbable.

It's a farce, of sorts, if one's impression of farce is that the humor comes from dumb people doing unlikely things in improbable situations.

I don't mean that people were getting it on in improbable ways with even more improbable amounts of stamina.

The first seven were unveiled in an improbable stretch, from 1940 to 1943, when he seemed incapable of doing wrong, and they were to varying degrees hits, while Unfaithfully Yours bled t...

by Bill Chambers The third, shortest, and presumably final entry in an improbable film series of seesawing returns, Hal Hartley's Ned Rifle is the religious component of a triptych that has thus far loosely tackled Art (Henry Fool) and Politics (Fay Grim).

Columbus: In this drama about the unique friendship between a young woman (Haley Lu Richardson) and the son of an architecture scholar (John Cho) in the improbable architectural mecca of Columbus, Ind., video essayist Kogonada lovingly captures the distinctive buildings themselves, but is even better at understanding those places as they affect people.

Characters, including a detective played by Allison Janney (The Way Way Back), behave in improbable ways, motivated more by narrative needs than actual human psychology.

Twelve tasks, which Red calls «gifts,» each challenging Jason in an improbable way, the accumulation of which would change him forever.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

To protect his boss at critical junctures in his improbable political rise, Trump's longtime attorney, Michael Cohen, relied on intimidation tactics, hush money and the nation's leading tabloid news business, American Media Inc., whose top executives include close Trump allies.

Chris Huhne has suffered a setback - but could this merely be the latest step in an improbable path to the Liberal Democrat leadership?

At one stage last October under Vincenzo Montella, Milan were in the bottom half of the table, in an improbable 11th place.

Northwestern leads MSU late, loses in improbable fashion!

We may envisage all kinds of mischance (disaster or disease) which might in theory put an end to our evolutionary progress: but the fact remains that for 300 million years Life has paradoxically flourished in the Improbable.

The problem with religion is the installation of a «God Based Reality» into a young child or adolescent mind which is not challenged over a significant period of time resulting in improbable, or nearly impossible rational judgment at later stages in life with respect to religious claims.

did you mean to say «belief in the improbable is the one true sin»?

The global vision of American evangelicalism began in an improbable place, 1950s South Korea, as Americans encountered people like Pun Hui Pak.

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

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's the latest success in an improbable resurrection of the fabled plane — and of the quiet rise of B.C.'s aerospace sector.

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.

«It would be just incredibly improbable if that wasn't driving up prices in the west by some magnitude.»

It's put billions of dollars to work in ride - hailing companies across the globe, including Uber and China's Didi Chuxing, and hundreds of millions into start - ups in many other categories, including dog - walking company Wag (it invested $ 300 million), food delivery provider DoorDash (it led a $ 535 million round), and virtual reality infrastructure provider Improbable (it led a $ 502 million round).

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.

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.

Lovell was referring to the humbling truth about our fragile existence: Life exists here only because it teeters in a delicate and truly improbable balance.

The book is a memoir about his improbable journey from his working - class, «hillbilly» roots in Appalachia to the elite corridors of one of the top law schools in the U.S., and then the world of venture capital.

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 improbable.

You might have thought that Trump's improbable election and his subsequent refusal to mellow in office would cause traders to worry about the stability of their investments.

On Monday night, Alabama completed an improbable comeback with a backup quarterback, forcing overtime and beating Georgia in the college football national championship.

On a conference call on May 7, Musk announced that California, while still «in the category of being improbable,» was «potentially back in the running,» ratcheting up the pressure on the other contenders.

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.

On a late - summer afternoon in Northern California, another mobile clinic is stationed in a more improbable location: among the BMWs (bmwyy) and Teslas (TSLA) in the parking lot of the highly groomed corporate headquarters of Nvidia (NVDA), a graphics semiconductor titan in Santa Clara County, home to the nation's highest median household income.

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.

Since that time, he has written a long - form essay broken into three books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

While I have little to offer in support of speculative delusions about paper wealth, improbable growth expectations, or Bitcoin, I'd be remiss to write a commentary without acknowledging the many things that can be fully embraced.

New York - It may seem like another improbable application of «science» on CSI, but a forensic chemist has succeeded in using chemical analysis of sweat to distinguish individuals in relation to crime scenes.

Now that we're seeing retail sales decline month to month almost every month, manufacturing indices plunging to levels not seen since 2008 - 2009 and the GDP registering a decline, before inflation is stripped out — of almost 1 % in Q1, it is highly improbable that the Fed will dare raise rates.

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

A term coined by Michele Wucker, an American policy wonk, it refers to a «highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan.»

That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly 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).