Sentences with phrase «on improbable»

It answered my post at July 28, 2011 at 2:48 am that restated our agreement; viz. we doubt the L&S determination of climate sensitivity can be ascribed to have any confidence because it is based on an improbable assumption of system invariance.

We have both expressed our doubt that the L&S determination of climate sensitivity can be ascribed to have any confidence because it is based on an improbable assumption of system invariance.

Inspired by the megalomaniacal ambition of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, who embarked on improbable quest to bring opera to the tropics, C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska decided to stage an opera in the mountains of Haiti.

The London - based game technology company Improbable has partnered with Darewise Entertainment to explore possibilities for development on Improbable's SpatialOS platform -LSB-...]

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, thirty - year - old English lecturer Irina Ellison is on an improbable quest of her own.

Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first - generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.

«A few chapters in, it becomes clear that we are in bestseller territory, as lurid melodrama is piled on lurid melodrama, improbable coincidence on improbable coincidence, while important plot shifts are obscured by passages of excited purple prose.»

Our nation's capital is full of countless tales of humble servants who began their terms on an improbable journey to impactful American leadership.

Our nations capital is full of countless tales of humble servants who began their terms on an improbable journey to impactful American leadership.

Yet Johnson clearly understands a franchise that depends as much on improbable schemes and subplots as Oedipal rage and symbolic sibling rivalry for its energy and psychological pull.

Earlier this year, we reported on the improbable news that Eddie Murphy's classic fish - out - of - Zamunda classic, Coming To America, was getting a sequel, 29 years after it first entered theaters.

Through the fable of a woman looking for her incarcerated husband, Loznitza returns to his topic of choice: an evocation, bordering on the improbable and the surreal, of a long - time malaise in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

«War Dogs: Access Granted» (10:08) reflects on the improbable true story, with the real David Packouz sharing his perspective, which is complemented by some relevant archival footage and the cast and crew's comments.

Fox's bargain bin - bound Blu - ray + DVD release offers fine A / V quality, a solid featurette on the improbable real heist, and the best presentation the film can expect to have in physical media anytime soon.

Based on the best - selling book «The Ultimate Gift» by Jim Stovall, the story sends trust fund baby Jason Stevens on an improbable journey of discovery, having to answer the ultimate question: «What is the relationship between wealth and happiness?»

The film builds to its powerful climax on the strength of Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau's extraordinary pairing as Auschwitz survivors who meet in a nursing home and plan the murder of a former guard from Auschwitz with two deadlines: One due to the diminishing number of Nazi officers and perpetrators remaining alive, and other because of the dementia that has made Plummer's Zev Guttman constantly battle the growing fog and uncertainty that are slowly destroying his mental competence as Landau's Max guides him on an improbable journey.

The push and pull between little and big, child and adult, the nested protection of home and the uncertainties of the greater world are what stirs the heart in «Ernest & Celestine,» which turns on the improbable friendship that Celestine forms with Ernest, an adult bear.

• An improbable spelling error occurred in our article on improbable ideas.

You can pick lots of holes in a plot that depends on the improbable motivations of an ex-girlfriend and a group of dissidents called the Bellringers, but what you can't shut out is the howl of rage that comes from the pages for the loss of liberty and a free Parliament.

Although it borders mostly on the improbable, Cristiano Ronaldo's latest drama triangle with the Spanish tax authorities and Real Madrid appears to have cooked up a chance for PSG to sign the one player they have admired since laying their hands on Petrodollars.

The Arizona Cardinals, who won in Dallas against a Tony Romo-less Cowboys team in Week 9, are sitting on an improbable 7 - 1 record and are firmly in the driver seat over in the NFC.

Last year, on their improbable title run they were the # 6 seed.

Did owner Paul Reddam even bet on the improbable Irap?

He also put the team on this back and nearly carried the «10 - ’11 Devils on an improbable run after a historically bad first half of the year.

Why should we base our actions on the improbable and baseless?

Not exact matches

The French president has forged an improbable bond with the volatile Trump, and hopes to leverage their friendship into progress on not only Iran but exempting Europe from steel tariffs, and protecting the 2016 Paris climate accord.

After starting the season 9 - 2, the Ravens have dropped three - straight games, which easily could have been four if it wasn't for an improbable 30 - yard catch and run by Ray Rice on a 4th - and - 29 against the San Diego Chargers.

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.»

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 contenderOn 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 contenderon 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 contenderon the other contenders.

Speaking of Samsung, how improbable is it that the scandal - plagued company is riding high even though its de facto leader awaits a judgement on a bribery charge and its smartphone profits blew up with the batteries of its last generation of phones?

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.

Just last year, officials discussed the impact a nuclear weapon strike would have on MacDill and the surrounding area, noting that a strike was highly improbable (though the focus, at the time, was on North Korea).

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.

Hinckley's people remain on call for emergencies, which can arise under improbable conditions.

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

NYT: Monks in California Breathe Life Into a Monastery From Spain The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on a patch of rural Northern California land was, of course, improbable.

«I don't know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.»

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.

If nature is too improbable to exist on its own, then something capable of creating nature must by the same logic be even less probable.

It sounds most improbable, but Richard ran for a congressional seat in Brooklyn, on a left - of - mainstream Democratic ticket, and I explored doing the same in Johnstown, Pennsylvania» the seat that not long afterward the Vietnam veteran Jack Murtha won.

My experience has taught me that life is incredibly strange... the immense improbability of us being here at all (I mean really who actually turned on the lights in the first place) leaves me open to the possibility of the unlikely or improbable.

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.

Seifert represents the school called «phenomenological realism,» which builds on the work of the early Edmund Husserl and does spirited battle against the legions of «transcendental idealists» (i.e., subjectivists) who fight under the banner of Kant and his sometimes improbable allies.

The circumstances required for sexual reproduction (different in kind from what I mean by «metaphysical division,» although a different branch on the same path of interaction between matter and the élan vital) by more complex entities is of course still more particular (and improbable without the intentional element).

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.

In fact, looking around the world today, the most hopeful sign I see is the human rights movement, which operates from the unprovable and, on its face, improbable moral conviction that all humans are equal and that no human should be abused by any other for any reason whatsoever.

18 - 35 contains so many echoes of the language of Pauline epistles that we must suppose, either that the writer had access to these epistles (which is on other grounds improbable), or that he worked upon actual reminiscence of Paul's speech upon this or some similar occasion.

On the other hand, it seems improbable that the Times will really withdraw from «the power and the glory» of directing the affairs of the nation and the world, or at least pretending to.

Without being overawed by the Improbable, let us now concentrate our attention on the planet we call Earth.