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But who can rule out the notion that the most improbable alternative might be the only one possible?

Knowing Io Welland as he had, he deemed it very improbable that she had even so much as mentioned him to any of her friends.

Oregon State now was beginning to roll. They swept through the Super Regionals the next week to punch their improbable return trip to Omaha.

He had not lived to see the remarkable fruit of his own improbable journey westward.

Among these details the reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we preserve out of respect for the truth.

There is nothing intrinsically improbable about this incident, which is stamped indeed, with all the marks of literary truth.

A man who suffered concussion after diving into a shallow pool has made a seemingly improbable discovery: it made him a musical genius.

A woman with a cast on her left arm struggled along in improbable heels, while another had only a huge blue teddy bear for luggage.

Good. Then I shall attempt the impossible -- or at least the improbable.

It is the result of a cutting-edge computational process and people's responses to it are just as improbable.

Just seconds after Greece won an improbable European Championship, church bells rang and cars clogged the streets of every city and hamlet.

Not one word about the magic power of music in antiquity seems to me improbable when I am under the spell of her simple melody.

If Brentford to Barcelona feels like an improbable journey, then consider the fact that football was not even Szczesny's first sport.

Picking the right six numbers in a lotto is, to say the least, statistically improbable.

Mr Blatter says that he will reform the organisation. That seems, to put it mildly, improbable.

It must reject improbable alternatives just as it rejects the permanency of the existing order.

It is an improbable scandal that features Rupert Murdoch's humbling at the hands of Parliament as one of its dullest chapters.

I knew that this was highly improbable, but didn't see any sense in arguing.

Many other ingenious and improbable theories have been suggested to explain the origin of the name.

I've had an improbable life, and a wonderful one full of faith, hope, and love, as well as more than my share of grace and good fortune.

Her incredible journey had a tangible impact on this small region of Siberia, and her improbable and unique legacy continues to this day.

And again, when you're thinking about how improbable this is, remember, five billion years ago, we were not here, and there was no life.

One measure of the power of its central idea is the improbable alliances it has forged.

When you eliminated the impossible, whatever remains , however improbable, must be the truth.

We are a people of a probable home improbable hope with an eye toward the fudge towards future, with resort resolve in our heart.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

the former seems improbable for a country whose currency will not be fully convertible for some time.

If your dream strikes you as too improbable, don't worry. If it's possible in your head, it qualifies as a good dream.

If you are charged with defending your country, you need to be able to meet even improbable threats.

The plot of the upcoming Hollywood film "Snakes on a Plane" might not be as improbable as it seems.

"His version is so improbable, " he said.

Moreover, the cost of using it to service the space station would require a dramatic and improbable increase in NASA's budget.

But it is improbable that this relative gain would mean an absolute gain.

whom she follows down a rabbit-hole, floating down into a dream underworld of paradox, the absurd and the improbable.

If Europe wanted to adopt one, the ECB and finance ministers would have to agree on such a policy jointly. This is highly improbable.

The immense distance between the two ends of the continent makes an ancient African exchange system appear improbable.

If so, that would be one of the business world's more improbable turnarounds.

Activating this improbable tissue might provide a new way to rev up the body's metabolism and accelerate weight loss.

What does Aristotle mean when he says that in tragedy a probable impossibility is preferred to an improbable possibility?

This seems somewhat unlikely in an engineering contract, but then improbable happenings are the stuff of which many law cases are made.

At this point, I hope you're wondering how you can set your own Wildly Improbable Goals.

Nuclear war is not at all improbable once these countries get desperate .

When you have eliminated the impossibles, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Yes, fact only one.

In the four years since his improbable gold medal in Athens, we have watched Liu Xiang become the toast of his country.

Sleepers suffer from the Quiescence and Disbelief, and worsen the chances of a Paradox if they witness vulgar or improbable magic.

Through service, I discovered how my own improbable story fit into the larger story of America.

Wisdom consists in the ability to discriminate between the probable and improbable, and being reconciled to the inevitable.

In other words, it would take a miraculous concatenation of improbable events to make her president.

As Sherlock Holmes said, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Britain's voters are in line to produce one of three historically improbable events a month from now.

"I have too much stuff, " he had told me, a bizarrely improbable statement coming from him.

The story of how an introverted German scientist came to judge and counsel schools around the world is an improbable one.

Even if perverse consequences of this type look improbable, a junk-food tax may have less impact than its advocates expect.

Overnight, at the stroke of a shovel, improbable myth becomes unimaginable fact.

It might sound improbable, but one real life farmer in Hubei province fought off workers with a homemade cannon.

Once you've ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.

Mr. Madoff's investment performance, given his stated strategy, was not merely improbable but mathematically impossible.

The immaculately drawn images and historical accuracy permit the artist to move into the realm of the improbable.

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. --Conan Doyle.

As improbable as my life has been, it would have been impossible anywhere but America.

Over billions of years on a unique sphere, chance has painted a thin covering of life: complex, improbable, wonderful and fragile.

It was an improbable romance.

Thus, the nutrient composition of sea water is maintained by organisms which also stabilize the improbable composition of the atmosphere.

But the ambitious idea of the two sharing a new Mini car platform was rapidly abandoned, while a merger seems most improbable.

Yet much of the DPJ's economic programme remains sketchy, improbable or downright unrealistic.

Now Anders Breivik has invoked the improbable axis of Marxism, multiculturalism and Islamism, together colonising Europe.

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Advances In livIng conditions, public health, and antibiotic therapy make future pandemics almost improbable.

If a sudden subprime-style meltdown in the credit-card market is improbable, the risks of a sustained downturn are much more real.

This combination of rising unemployment and higher wages seems improbable. But, as it turns out, it's what history would lead us to expect.

They add, however, that a heritable basis for the signature, although improbable, cannot be ruled out.

We must make one of two following highly improbable suppositions.

CAN something inevitable also be highly improbable?

From a novelist's perspective it is a "miraculous event" , too improbable to be true.

Healing of the tympanum by scaring is improbable if the membrane is totally destroyed by otitis media.

I think what you meant to say is, 'I give up; he's improbable'.

The film tells the improbable story of a monkey that becomes a politician.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. - John Kenneth Galbraith.

It all seemed so highly improbable to those who knew her, that everyone dismissed it as ridiculous.

Unless Ms Merkel steps forward, which is improbable, the only such person in the running is Mr Blair.

this not improbable hypothesis raises new questions concerning his social rank within his society .

I dreamt that I was in Hell, and that Hell is a place full of all those happenings that are improbable but not impossible.

a reforming coalition would have to show improbable discipline and resolve.

or it could mean one more thing - as improbable , but it was far more sinister plot.

One way to cope with those emotions is to belittle warnings of a pandemic as improbable.

The house is not really precarious, but visitors are still awed by the improbable structure.

They spend their lives at sea, living on boats and plunging to improbable depths in search of pearls, sea cucumbers and fish.

Given that no country used controls during the depths of the financial crisis, it is improbable that they will now.

They presume government take step coping with situation but opinion highly improbable.

Car commercials put their vehicles in the most improbable of places: sides of cliff, tops of rock pillars, middles of deserts.

That seems improbable given that a famine is raging in south Somalia, which has seen over a million animals die of hunger and thirst.

It's improbable that she'll accept the invitation.

This conclusion, which implies great breaks or discontinuity in the series, appears to me improbable in the highest degree.

The ceremony was organised by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research.

Yet if Taiwan chooses to muddle through as present trends continue, three effects are not improbable.

If yesterday's market rally really does signal a turning point in the global financial crisis, the world will hail an improbable saviour.

My parents shared not only an improbable love; they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.

Mr Rice and his factory are an improbable splash of colour on the bleak cityscape.

A fourth-term Labour government remains improbable, even if all of the above transpires.

Some people find the coincident events in Hardy's novels annoyingly improbable.

It's highly improbable, but even Hawking admits it is theoretically (i. e. , mathematically) possible.

We are a people of improbable hope with an eye towards future, with resolve in our heart.

"Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. " Oscar Wilde.

By 2003's The Da Vinci Code, Brown had clearly honed his pop-lit formulation of improbable plot twists, historical trivia and travelogue.

That outcome, never more than possible, now looks highly improbable.

Perhaps the old priest's claim was not so improbable afterall.

Evolution in Middle World has not equipped us to handle very improbable events; we don't live long enough.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ture th.

Against improbable odds, she became the first Saudi woman accepted at Cambridge University in the male-dominated field of biotechnology.

Within the last two decades a potential has emerged which was improbable, but which is now feasible.

The first leg saw Red Star pull off an improbable victory in Munich with Savicevic scoring the second of their goals.

Silence fell on the audience, because that figure seemed so improbable.

If you can't trust the data, be prepared for anything -- large arguments, a huge number of arguments, improbable characters, and so on.

When we consider the distance that technology has come in the past five years, a further drift from classic communication is not improbable.

Ronald Reagan, another improbable candidate, began his general-election push in 1980 at Liberty Park.

No, just. . . er. . . highly improbable.

However long it takes, a return to a 5% saving rate is hardly improbable.

It is infinitely improbable that the cause of mind, that is, of existence, is similar to mind.

Again, the company claimed to make improbable returns, but the scale of the fraud was far bigger than that at MX Factors.

Yet it seems improbable that NATO, nowinmore of a hurry than ever, can fix this mess.

There is, however, another way in which Mr Gingrich's high standing in the polls is improbable.

Winning third was already very improbable and the team's morale went soaring up!

It is theoretically possible, although highly improbable that a worm hole could somehow be stabilized to allow safe passage through it.

When the unthinkable suddenly becomes the inevitable, without pausing in the realm of the improbable, then you have contagion.

It is not improbable that the people will rise in arms against the ruling class.

"But if all I have to do is find a McDonald's, I could drive from Idaho to the southern tip of Florida. " Improbable? Yes.

Nim would almost certainly have died there, had his life not taken another improbable turn.

Improbable as it seems, it's true.

He's unpredictable, he scores unlikely, improbable goals, and he can score them in every way imaginable.

Dismissed the claim as highly improbable.

This may seem improbable given that a Scottish MP, Gordon Brown, currently resides in Downing Street.

Discoveries based on this most improbable of journeys that I have been on.

the improbable eyelid glances open.

Upon Testing or logging in, several errors may occur (though if you followed this document, this is improbable).

It may sound improbable, but the secret to finding more time in yourday is spending more time in bed at night.

His excuse as to why they were late sounds improbable.

Though improbable it's not impossible.

As improbable as this sounds, it really works.

TO MANY people, Qatar's bid to host the football World Cup in 2022 seemed as improbable as the Jamaican bobsleigh team.

That means I have to sell an improbable quantity of books to justify the effort.

most of them wildly improbable. What is there so improbable in it?

It's highly improbable that Nora will agree.

It is computationally improbable to find two distinct inputs that hash to the same value.

We are a people of improbable hope.

This means they can lift improbable objects into the sky, such as dangling radar equipment.

Any visitor who ventures here will return home with stories so improbable that claiming you have a pet unicorn will sound more believable.

But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very very improbable.

And we are still the nation that has overcome great fears and improbable odds.

For a system of 10 20 molecules, on the other hand, entropy decrease becomes so improbable that it deserves to be called impossible.

The CEO job at HP makes more sense, though. Still, we think this is improbable.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will , they soon become inevitable.

I know that hope has been the guiding force behind the most improbable changes this country has ever made.

That is a hard question to answer because the annual World Economic Forum, which has been going since 1971, is an improbable event.

That is improbable.

Except it is nearly 600 years old. Overnight, at the stroke of a shovel, improbable myth becomes unimaginable fact.

To modern minds the idea that men would go to war over, for example, transubstantiation seems improbable.

I'll take my stand now to resolve this situation then it's intangible, improbable, you and I

A recent and yet more improbable theory

It will delete everything on your hard drive and [extreme and improbable danger specified here]

surgeons usually fantasize about wild and improbable surgeries--

The 2011 Ig Nobel winners, awarded Thursday at Harvard University by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine:

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable;

Total Resistance to Aspirin Therapy Appears Improbable

Improbable research: why horseflies don't trouble white horses

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

too improbable to admit of belief a tall story

And though the odds say improbable