Sentences with phrase «likelihood of bad things»

Insurance is always about betting against bad things happening, and the likelihood of bad things happening is the simplest definition of risk that we know.

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It is a bad thing for football reporters who face the potential for delays on public transportation, additional headaches when walking from their hotel to the bar and the stronger likelihood of that woman from Telemundo showing up in her bikini to get stared at by 65 - year - old guys with their cell phones on a clip and a branded polo shirt they got from a gift bag.

Your pooch may not understand what you're trying to achieve and there is a likelihood of you making things worse.

It tended toward greater heterozygosity — a mix of gene versions — within individual dogs, maintained genetic diversity in the breed, and therefore lessened the likelihood that bad genes for things like eye disease would match up.

The crucial fact is that greater uncertainty translates into greater likelihood of catastrophic (or bad or terrible) outcomes, all other things being equal.

You can't completely avoid negative publicity if bad things happen, but you can reduce the likelihood of making a bad situation worse.

The only thing I would have done differently was to add beadboard to the ends of exposed cabinets, but what's the likelihood that both big - box lumber stores saw was broken the day I was needing the boards cut — oh well, it doesn't look too bad!