Sentences with phrase «too improbable»

I haven't had the chance to read it, but as I understand it the authors fit a normal (or Gaussian) distribution to weather measurements from the 1950s to the 1980s, and then concluded that the current conditions in the midwest were too improbable to be natural.

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.

But Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, have given no indication of how they would proceed, and aides say privately that Republican leaders view the possibility of Mr. Mueller's firing as too improbable to warrant hypothetical discussions.

Not exact matches

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.

Something like this, too, is what we need today — to have a song in our hearts as we see the United Nations crumbling, peace retreating to an improbable future, and God alone knows what awful fate in store for us and our proud civilization.

The rest are too weirdly personal and improbable.

I kind of try to stay as close to the present moment as I can, I guess — in the golf game, at least — and try to take one thing at a time, and so I really don't look ahead too much,» said Stricker, who cruised to a three - stroke victory in 2009, won by two shots in 2010 and clinched last year's title by one shot with an improbable birdie on the 72nd hole.

Us lifting the EPL title this season rests on too many factors, it's not impossible but it's improbable.

But, then, winning his party's leadership looked equally improbable when he launched his campaign, so maybe we should not be too dogmatic about his chances.

Predators does somewhat fall apart towards the end with a drawn out and messy conclusion with a few too many improbable factors letting down what was a reasonably strong film until then.

As in so many films of its ilk, we observe as the improbable wads of cash are amassed and then, at the point where things just get a little too loco, everything goes to shit.

Obviously this is an animated film so directors Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon do have the leeway of creating a rather improbable plot, but little children may too realize that giraffes and hippopotamuses can not defy gravity and balance on a tightrope 50 feet (or more) above the ground.

Despite annoying characters, the film does retain a modicum of mystery as we watch a lot of improbable sleuthing on the part of these teenagers, following a string of clues that even Dan Brown would deem too ludicrous to inject into his stories and expect us to swallow, such as highlighted poetry quotes, thirty - year - old road maps in secret locations, and edits to Wikipedia - style entries to towns that don't really exist.

But mocking the improbable characters and bizarre juxtapositions is too literal and superficial a reading of this dreamy, entrancing movie.

The niffler (kleptomaniac platypus) is too cute for words, and the bird / snake hybrid makes for an improbable but entertaining battle sequence.

A particular teaching strategy may yield no academic gains, but it would seem highly improbable that there are too many (any?)

The mere thought of it was perplexing, but stranger things have happened within FCA, so the thought of a Hellcat - powered 300 sedan, as improbable as it was, didn't seem too far - fetched for FCA.

it's too late, and without professional help it's unlikely and immensely improbable that she will become the social butterfly that you wish for.

Even so, they will still happen from time to time, and if there are «too many» record - events, then this is improbable given an iid - process.

I ask you to draw hope from the improbable progress this nation has made and look to the future with confidence that we too can meet the great test of our time.

I think Martin doubts it improbable too.

Bill Becker, head of the Presidential Climate Action Project, summed up this thinking in an essay earlier this year: «Geo - engineering is rooted in the idea that although we're too stupid to do the simple things that would slow climate change, we're smart enough to do the improbable things.»

This year, the theme is «Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures, and Improbable Breakthroughs» — suiting, to a year that has seen plenty of each (though maybe too many of the second).

Too often, the danger of a successful malware attack is played down and described as improbable.