Sentences with word «unlikelihood»

Lord Carswell observed that the chance of a supervening event occurring may be anywhere on a scale between extreme unlikelihood to virtual certainty.

Marsh's exquisite eye for detail reveals the sheer unlikelihood of Bonhoeffer's emergence as the boldest opponent of efforts to Nazify the German church.

Are you saying that you no longer have any problem with evolution, the big bang theory, radio carbon dating, the age of the Earth, the scientific unlikelihood of the great flood, and the archeological evidence against the chronology of the bible story?

but how much unlikelihood is enough?

Setting aside the military unlikelihood of a successful invasion, the costs of the invasion would be astronomical.

But this statistical unlikelihood might also suggest that life is wholly impossibly around red dwarf stars, or else any type of conscious observers that do develop around such stars will be drastically different from our type of conscious life.

In Mystic River (also based on a Lehane novel), the disparate narrative threads were made to align thanks to the inclusion of a purely irrational character, a psycho ex machina; in Gone Baby Gone, a conspiracy of untrammeled unlikelihood fulfills the same purpose.

It is a stupid idea for any number of reasons, including the epic unlikelihood of the government managing it well enough to achieve the guaranteed inflation plus 3 % return each year without infusions from the Treasury.

Unfortunately, that same unlikelihood is what causes many renters in New York to choose not to carry insurance plans.

After Jen is left for dead, her reemergence could fairly be written off as absurd, but its sheer unlikelihood gives her an almost supernatural quality, like she's animated by the souls of wronged women past.

There's no shortage of scientific unlikelihood to choose from.

That value might lie anywhere on the scale between extreme unlikelihood, which would give the deduction a minimal value, to virtual certainty, which would mean that it would be assessed at a figure very close to that which would be reached if one made the definite assumption that the contingency would occur.

It is perhaps the sheer unlikelihood of two completely different individuals, poles apart, loving each other enough to overcome the conflict of difference that we find so appealing.

Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.

Some of the issues I identified with the network equipment maker's Virtual Networking Index included the unlikelihood that Canadians use the internet more than Americans; Japan's similarly head - scratching low usage; the unexplained projections of how traffic is expected to grow in different countries; and why internet leaders such as the Nordic countries were grouped into a generic «Western Europe» category that may have skewed the entire study.

Seidman said the real question was why Trump would even need to pardon himself, given the protection from prosecution his office affords him and the unlikelihood that he would be charged after leaving office.

It is considered fantastically improbable for, not only the universe to provide the physical laws necessary for life to arise, but combined with the unlikelihood of the human race being exactly as it is now, we are faced with an extraordinarily improbable event.

What the task force appears not to have learned from the Presbyterians is the unlikelihood of getting away with it.

From the beginning, there were doubts, however, beyond the unlikelihood that the tiny scrap that survived the centuries would happen to be the one that contained the reference to Jesus» wife.

But as time passed, and as the unlikelihood of single - handed lasting victory has become apparent, the mood has changed.

Just as U2 longs for a war - stopping «New Year's Day» but laments the unlikelihood of it ever happening, Dylan asks:

When we build up a preponderance of evidence for the unlikelihood of something it is reasonable to call that thing impossible.

Triggered by an image, a question, something the pastor said, something that doesn't add up, the unlikelihood of it all, the too - good - to - be-trueness of it, the way the lady in the thick perfume behind you sings «Up from the grave he arose!»

There is, despite its benefits, one long - recognized weakness in utopian speculation — the inadequacies of human beings and therefore the unlikelihood that they can live up to their ambitions in utopia.

In a moving passage that took me completely off guard, Dreher recounts a conversation with some strangers in a bar about the unlikelihood of terrorist attacks in Dallas.

Which means Usyk won't be able to box in Ukraine (and such a revocation could be time - limited); this is essentially a symbolic threat, given the unlikelihood of Usyk boxing in Ukraine in the foreseeable future.

we topped our group in Europe and despite the odds being against us, in the unlikelihood of a PSG loss they conceded the first goal and ended up drawing.

Nwakali was actually the club's third signing of the summer after Xhaka and Asano, yet because of his unlikelihood of featuring in the first team, the transfer was largely overlooked.

Despite the unlikelihood of playing regularly for Arsenal, he recently tweeted about his want to play for us again, but for now we will have to see what will happen when pre-season begins.

As much as you don't like to think as football being a business, it of course is very important to be on top of finances and so to think of it this way, would it really have been financially viable to keep Rosicky on for maybe another season, with the unlikelihood of him featuring in more than a few games in a single campaign?

Despite the unlikelihood of Chelsea fans seeing Pan in action for the Blues first team for quite some time, the club's proactive scouting network and willingness to take risks on young players of this nature can only be seen as a positive.

«And the reason Conte is more likely to return to Italy is not that his family is based there (an arrangement that works for them, regardless of where Conte is working), but simply the unlikelihood of Arsene Wenger stepping down next summer before his contract has been fulfilled.»

In fact both sides have the chance to make history, such is the unlikelihood of a turnaround by John Terry's team - mates on Tuesday.

More generally, gender stereotypes are used to justify women's unlikelihood to speak up: the general perception of women as instruments whose function is primordially to be used, as passive sexual objects than as active subjects, as bodies and faces that should be looked at and evaluated on the basis of demanding aesthetic criteria, as sacrificial mothers or as empathetic persons mainly attuned to other's people needs, is not very compatible with an assertive form of communication.

First, because of the dangers of giving the state the power to encourage a sense of loyalty and community in its citizens and second, the unlikelihood that civic virtue can be fostered in a system where citizens are excluded from direct participation.

Given the unlikelihood of this gaining political support, I also propose three alternative funding models that could be achieved within the existing neoliberal paradigm, ranging from a John Lewis university, which would surely find favour with the Coalition, through a multi-stakeholder co-operative, to a system of «free universities» operating as an alternative economy facilitated through a new educationally focused currency.

Oliver Heald, Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, made the point that this would further increase the unlikelihood of Brown calling a snap election:

Capital reported last week that charter groups were pivoting their lobbying strategy toward Albany, given the unlikelihood of getting any help from City Hall.

The unlikelihood of Smith winning a Republican primary, let alone a general election, didn't deter him, Halloran or two other Republicans, the Bronx County Republican chairman Jay Savino and Queens County Republican operative Vince Tabone, from seeking money in order to help Smith get onto the ballot without changing his party registration by acquiring what's known as a «Wilson Pakula» from at least three of the five Republican county committees in New York City.

So while some researchers see the perchlorate find as another sign of life's unlikelihood on Mars, Schulze - Makuch is positively elated.

The main arguments that Weightman offers for his conclusions are the unlikelihood of similar seismic activity in the United Kingdom — it is 1000 miles from the edge of a tectonic plate — and the fact that all of its 19 reactors are of a different design from those at Fukushima.

Moving nations out of «comfort zones» The scale of the need, combined with the unlikelihood of big increases in taxpayer - funded aid from the United States or Europe, she said, makes private - sector participation all the more important.