Sentences with phrase «infinitesimally small chance»

«When swept off their home reef, they have an infinitesimally small chance of ever reaching a suitable place to settle and become a coral colony.

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A number of MPs have criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury after his claim that the chances of negotiating Brexit by the UK's planned exit date of March 2019 are «infinitesimally small».

The chances of negotiating Brexit by the UK's planned exit date of March 2019 is «infinitesimally small» unless politicians work together, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

What the argument by probability does is to reflect on the «fine - tunedness» of a universe in which life can exist, reflects on the chance of life occurring through purely random events, and concludes that the chance of life coming into existence through purely random forces of nature is so infinitesimally small as to be almost non-existent.

Global warming is of course a real issue (as opposed to alien invasions and meteors hitting the Earth, the chances of which are infinitesimally small).

The best information we have now from our most recent research is that the chances of getting a fingerprint match between that human fingerprint pattern of warming low down and cooling up high and purely natural causes is infinitesimally small.

Todd added, «There are a lot of options people have, and the fact that people are considering these options means that the chances of [a hard fork going badly] are not infinitesimally small.»