Sentences with phrase «make improbable»

You'll get invaluable equipment (such as the grappling hook) that will make improbable puzzles or jumps seem much more logical once you are fully equipped.

It isn't long before they make the improbable agreement to purchase the car together and alternate the days they will drive it.

These pressures make it improbable that any effort to achieve higher minimum standards by regulation would succeed.

Quickly just want to turn back to something that was written in the Playoff Preview: «In every All Sports Series, there is one team that makes an improbable Playoff run.

Led by Richie Frahm and Casey Calvary, this Cinderella team made an improbable run to the Elite Eight before losing to the eventual national champion, UConn.

Coming into the bottom of the 6th inning late Monday Night, Team Maione found themselves down 9 - 3 but they battled and rallied and battled some more and made an improbable comeback to win 11 - 9.

Mr. Sloan is making an improbable bid for New York's 13th Congressional District seat, but appears to be more than a little ambivalent about whether he wants anyone to know that he's actually running.

With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (played by Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

In 1976, Papale made the improbable leap from bartender to professional football player, becoming the oldest rookie in NFL history at age 30 when he joined the Philadelphia Eagles through an open tryout.

The fact that students at APIP schools were no more likely to graduate from high school or take the SAT or ACT makes it improbable that an influx of high - performing students is responsible for the improvements observed for other outcomes.

Furthermore, any new law will undoubtedly be challenged in court, making it improbable that any voucher plan will be implemented by fall 2005, if at all.

The majority of the pieces on view come from 1981 through» 83, when the Haitian - American, Brooklyn - born graffiti artist made his improbable leap into the upper echelon of the art world.

Not exact matches

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.

But none of these happy eventualities is likely, making success even more improbable.

Here's a quick intro to the two front - runners and, — since neither is an inevitable choice — another couple of guys who make for more improbable but interesting picks.

However, they have looked at many truths (facts based on physical evidence) and non existent physical evidence of any God and have made a personal decision that the existence of any God is highly improbable and defies almost all logic.

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 called PRIDE... Geez you make it sound completely impossible and improbable that someone would do something stupid even while knowing the outcome before the beginning.

Let's see... «I make it sound completely impossible and improbable that someone would do something stupid even while knowing the outcome before the beginning»

Gender ideology seemed a ridiculous and improbable threat when I first considered its claims of male brains trapped in female bodies, but its rapid ascendancy in law and public opinion has made the term «transgender» a household word.

Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, who will make this Super Bowl his last game in the NFL, has regularly thanked God in the Ravens» somewhat improbable run to the Super Bowl.

There are infinite things that have no proof or evidence, that does not make them equal, it makes them infinitely improbable.

The most they'll say about gnosticism is that the lack of evidence makes the existence of any gods highly improbable.

7 There is nothing improbable in the story, if we assume that Jesus has been in Jerusalem and its neighborhood before, and made contacts there; and there is good reason for believing that he had.

Such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguable, 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 based on an idea.

But when events take place that God knew were improbable, it makes sense to say he experiences something like surprise.

It so definitely cuts across the usual pattern of our thought that we find it hard to recognize that there is nothing inherently improbable, not to say impossible, in God's choosing to make himself known in a particular series of events.

This stringency seems to provide some grounds for the type of probability - based anti-evolutionary argument that Dawkins sets out to refute in Climbing Mount Improbable, and provides some support for the arguments Johnson makes in Reason and the Balance concerning the unlikelihood of major evolutionary transitions occurring solely by Darwinian mechanisms.

Even in Middle - eastern culture, there are still many white people, so although it is unlikely for him to have appeared as a «white person», it's still not improbable, it does however contradict the cynic principles in Christianity, as they define him by what they believe would constitute their creator as being great or perfect as a manifestation equal to his greatness, but this was the exact mistake the Jews made, and why they disregarded Jesus when he came in the Flesh, his appearance can be debated on, but just like his birthday, or day of death.

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?

We not only assume / hope / wish into existence this most improbable of beings, we then unilaterally decide that it made the whole thing for us.

You see to disservice the fine tuning of the universe that made possible our intelligent life requires ideas that are highly improbable and extreme in nature.

This has two unfortunate results: it makes the regnant society, or as we would perhaps more loosely say, «the mind,» into an «ego» — in which case the self becomes less a «lived - body» than a Cartesian cogito — and it gives the presiding occasion of the regnant society the impossible, or at least, improbable, job of coordinating all bodily data all the time, pre-reflectively and reflectively, into an organizational unity.

To some degree it must do, since it is improbable that any writer would make God give even a shadow of his own unique likeness to a Creature that had nothing in common with him; and this common - sense conclusion is confirmed by the fact that God entrusts to man dominion over his new and wonderful earth and its other inhabitants.

If the existence of evil makes the existence of God improbable, then wouldn't the existence of good make the existence of God probable?

The existence of evil makes the existence of Satan probable, not the existence of God improbable.

The ties over, so I would try to win the game but the players are only playing for the shirt imo, it's not impossible, but highly improbable they have a mean defense, let's cement 3rd and retain the fa cup (relatively poor) I know because of the expectation and all the noise the club was making last summer but its a slight improvement.

But a Poulter victory, though highly improbable given the likes of multiple - major winners Spieth, McIlroy, and Bubba Watson populating the top of the leaderboard, would make for a much more dramatic story of sports redemption.

The Detroit Free Press was going to do all they could to make some money off of Michigan's improbable tournament run,...

During Monday night's Kentucky - Montevallo game, freshman James Young made one of the more improbable shots that will certainly be making the...

Wouldn «Äôt it have made more sense to give your cover to Todd Hamilton, who acknowledged his fellow competitors before himself after his improbable win at the British Open (A Horse for the Gorse, July 26)?

Leonard had opened as a +1800 long shot to win the Finals MVP at Intertops, making him easily the most improbable winner in recent history.

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

So, you have an improbable Regional Finals, but again, it would be fun to see No. 6 Notre Dame make it to the Final Four.

For Team Mordini, they didn't end with the ultimate prize but when all was said and done they tied for the 2nd most Eliminations on the day and made a really fun and improbable run to the Semis.

What's interesting is that prior to the start of the season, Curry actually saw his MVP odds drop from +2500 to +4000 during the pre-season, making him the most improbable winner in recent history (although Derrick Rose was +2500 before winning in 2010 - 11).

In New Jersey, amateur Chris Crawford was one of the most improbable of six players to make it to Oakmont.

Not that the story of the season would ever have made it past a director and gone into production — it would have been binned as ludicrously improbable and the scriptwriter instantly dismissed as a hack.

Pontus Wernbloom made Real Madrid pay for a string of misses as CSKA Moscow pinched an improbable draw when they looked certain to head to the Bernabeu behind in the Champions League last - 16 tie.