Sentences with phrase «vanishingly small chance»

General Electric called in reporters yesterday for a briefing on a nuclear plant it is trying to sell in partnership with Hitachi, a plant it said can be built faster than before, operated reliably and have a vanishingly small chance of an accident.

Even in a state that's extremely closely matched in terms of political opinion, your vote still has a vanishingly small chance of making a difference.

My assumption is it is a vanishingly small chance.

Not exact matches

Speaking with LBC chief correspondent Tom Swarbrick, lawyer Muhammed Akunjee, said: «If you get there, then your chances of going anywhere else afterwards are vanishingly small.

In fact, the chance of the Bible being historically accurate in any but the broadest terms is vanishingly small.

Hence the chance of winning the Europa is vanishingly small, to us realists.

The chances of smallpox being released, inadvertently or deliberately, from either the CDC site or Koltsovo are vanishingly small, given the elaborate security.

Its chance of hitting the earth was just vanishingly small.

«The chance of the gene being lost over and over again in the other lineages seems vanishingly small compared with a single transfer from a metazoan to a bacteria.»

The sad answer is that their chance of prevailing is vanishingly small.

It's probably too late for them to make such a move anyway, but even if it weren't, the chances that a media industry could do something so radical are vanishingly small.

«Now, I am hedging a bet because, to be honest with you, if the hiatus is still going on as of the sixth IPCC report, that report is going to have a large burden on its shoulders walking in the door, because recent literature has shown that the chances of having a hiatus of 18 of 20 years are vanishingly small.»

However the chances of extinction have to be vanishingly small.

(Unless of course the whole thing is a big mistake, but I think the chance of that is vanishingly small — though it'd be a relief forgetting all about it and just concentrating on my music.)

The chances that that is just coincidental are vanishingly small.

But the strength of the correlations is such that the chance of accidental coincidence is so vanishingly small the only explanation in the absence of a direct causal link between the two is that both phenomena are linked to a third which is affecting them both.

To paraphrase: Chance of these adjustments occurring randomly are vanishingly miniscule... So either its pure incompetence on behalf of a lot of different people over a long time or a conspiracy of a small set of people.

Susan, as best I understand the situation (better than average), the chances of extracting a significant portion of the «other 90 %» of the bitumen with foreseeable technical and economic circumstances are vanishingly small.