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The probability of Tom being punished is very small.
In all probability, no language is completely free of borrowed words.
The more the comments written on a sentence, the higher the probability of a - possibly modified - quote from Shakespeare.
Tomorrow there's a high probability it will rain.
What is the probability that at least two students have the same birthday?
There is very little probability of an agreement being reached.
In all probability, the cabinet will fall.
The probability of this chain of events is one in two million flights - about once every two months at current levels of air traffic.
In all probability, we shall arrive before them.
In all probability, we'll arrive before them.
In all probability, we'll arrive before they do.
The more people believe in some theory, the more is the probability that it's false. He who is right is alone in most cases.
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Do you know what the mathematical probability of that is?
Are we supposed to jeopardize the lives of everyone for children who in all probability are already dead?
In all probability he had his reasons.
Probability.
So, it is not merely a question of whether we go off in a vain search for food and in all probability starve to death.
The law of probability, Kiley?
The law of probability is against me.
They are, in all probability, lost. And just as short of water as we are.
What defies probability is that none of them had a rational explanation for quitting.
In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets.
Nothing happens fast enough. The probability is, he's responsible for the destruction of the Antares, which would indicate a total disregard for human life.
A distinct possibility, even a probability.
They might be able to destroy this machine, but in all probability there are others waiting to attack us!
Computer probability projections are useless due to insufficient data.
And in all probability I'll be very happy to give her to you.
You think I put myself in danger? In all probability you talked yourself into kingdom come.
Some secret hidden in her past in probability.
A second attempt will, in all probability, be made on this train.
If, however, he died a natural death we must assume that the thief happened to be on hand just at the right moment, which is outside the realm of probability.
Of course, Timmie, the actual probability of your finding Sydney lashed to a tree is, mathematically, pretty fractional.
It is quite obvious that you do not understand me and in all probability you never will.
Godzilla now reigns supreme. and will, in all probability, continue his march towards Tokyo. destroying everything in his path as he goes.
Our hopes for recalling the 843rd Bomb Wing. are quickly being reduced to a very low order of probability.
People have become slaves to probability.
Just a matter of probability calculated by my electronic brain.
Of course it's a little outside probability, but you've done it so well that you make it seem absolutely real.
One: Our hopes for recalling the 843rd Bomb Wing. are quickly being reduced to a very low order of probability.
They are, in all probability, lost.
In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of 3 million Earth-type planets.
Ninety-eight percent probability.
Yes, if I believe there's any probability and that the gain is infinite.
For me the killer can be only one of two types: either a person who was seized by a sudden impulse and in all probability has no record or a sex maniac and in that case.
News and current affairs
Yet in all probability he would have been even more deeply disappointed in the inability of the Palestinians to come to terms with the existence of the Jewish state.
As a result, the probability of a eurozone disaster is rising.
The biggest one is that it was the type of disaster to which policymakers pay too little attention - one that has a very low or unknown probability of occurring, but that creates enormous losses if it does occur.
Great as the death toll, physical and emotional suffering of survivors, and property damage caused by the tsunami were, even greater losses could be inflicted by other disasters of low (but not negligible), or unknown, probability.
The probability of catastrophes, whether intentional or not, resulting from human activity appears to be increasing because of the rapidity and direction of technological advances.
Of course, opening up the competition for Executive Board portfolios to all member countries does not guarantee the most qualified and politically independent person gets the job; it only increases the probability of such an outcome.
The longer energy prices remain at their current lofty levels, the greater the probability that inflationary expectations will increase and that second-round effects will materialize.
It is not that the end of European Monetary Union is on the agenda; it is merely that people have begun thinking about possible low-probability futures in which the end of EMU might be placed on the agenda.
Experts argue that the probability of a terrorist attack because of the Dubai takeover is small.
But it will do virtually no good, at high cost, and - as with many other lofty promises from the EU - it will carry a high probability of failure.
Any exit from the eurozone would increase the perceived probability that other countries may, sooner or later, follow suit.
Even if the probability of the use of force among states, or of threats of its use, is lower now than in earlier eras, the high impact of war leads rational actors to purchase expensive military insurance.
Internationally, where order is more tenuous, residual concerns about the coercive use of force, even if a low probability, can have important effects - including a stabilizing effect.
My preference is to assume that shocks arrive relatively frequently, but that they vary in size and probability.
Only the probability of a default - and the goal of avoiding even deeper haircuts - can induce investors to liquidate their positions at a discount.
The sooner the campaign debate pivots to this, the greater the probability that Americans will make a more informed choice and, thus, buy into the collective effort needed to escape national malaise.
Even a tiny probability of global catastrophe is unacceptable.
After all, the probability of international intervention (as in Libya) is nil, and the likelihood of a full-fledged armed revolution (as in Syria) is extremely limited.
This was folly: for their big banks today, more capital would reduce the probability of needing further government bailouts.
As a result, markets have again started to measure GDP to include some probability of currency re-denomination, causing debt ratios to look much worse than those based on the certainty of continued euro membership.
If we apply to catastrophic risks the same prudent analysis that leads us to buy insurance - multiplying probability by consequences - we would surely prioritize measures to reduce this kind of extreme risk.
Although ring prophylaxis might work in Minneapolis, Toronto, or Zurich, in the parts of the world where flu pandemics begin, the probability of success approaches zero.
But markets are already assigning a high probability to a Greek default.
To do so, executive payoffs could be made dependent on changes in the value of the banks' credit-default swaps, which reflect the probability that the bank will not have sufficient capital to meet its full obligations.