But that halcyon scenario looks increasingly improbable.

In both cases, what seems desirable appears highly improbable.

But starting a new cycle of institutional negotiations also seems improbable.

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

It may seem improbable, but they can find guidance from the United Kingdom.

The improbable theme that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for the conference is energy security.

Unfortunately, neither of these outcomes is likely. In both cases, what seems desirable appears highly improbable.

This makes it highly improbable that we will reach the three hour working day by 2030.

While such an outcome may be improbable, it would be complacent folly to dismiss the possibility.

to come back to life after we have died and become dust ? That is most improbable !

to come back to life after we have died and become dust ? That is most improbable !

In retrospect, many people have cast the shift as inevitable, but at the time it seemed wildly improbable.

This sequence of keystrokes was improbable, and so the problem did not occur very often and went unnoticed for a long time.

But a wholesale structural overhaul of the global economy s institutional architecture is improbable, regardless of the context. In the interim, creativity is key.

Whichever way you look at it, the ECB and with it Europe is being forced into an endgame with three once improbable outcomes.

For this reason, hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted in advertising improbable companies on TV and building network capacity beyond any foreseeable need.

Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for thinking the improbable by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.

While such an outcome may be improbable, it would be complacent folly to dismiss the possibility. No institution, society, or civilization can survive purely on autopilot.

But it is hardly more improbable than many of the other massive bailouts we have seen around the world in the wake of the recent financial crisis.

So when you think about the improbable nature of what I'm going to tell you in the next few minutes, just remember, we came from stuff on planet Earth.

This makes it highly improbable that we will reach the three hour working day by 2030. It is also unlikely that growth will stop unless nature itself calls a halt.

A firm with two employees could have duplication of efforts, but this is improbable, as the two are likely to know what each other is working on at all times.

A quick resolution of the Senkaku Islands dispute (or of Japan s lower profile conflict with South Korea over the Korean controlled Liancourt Rocks) is improbable, but Japan could be more proactive.

Nor is it improbable that a protracted war in Libya would end by vindicating the warning of the region s authoritarian rulers that the Arab Awakening is but a prelude to chaos.

The computer metaphor thus implies that living organisms are material systems that, facing an unforeseeable future, arrive at improbable solutions so that some of their progeny can survive in unpredictable conditions.

The State party finds it highly improbable that a person wanted by the police for a capital offence could have a new passport issued and take off from Karachi airport without incident.

Likewise, America s reset button policy with Russia has certainly improved relations with the Kremlin, but it remains highly improbable that the Russians would endanger their privileged relations with Iran by joining an economic siege.

Old hands know that global trade deals often rise out of the ashes of failed talks. Unfortunately, such an outcome seems improbable now, especially since the US is unlikely to rejoin the talks anytime soon.

In light of these reservations, it is improbable that the CEI will begin its activities in the immediate future even as the deadline of end of July as set out by the Pretoria Declaration passes.

Whichever way you look at it, the ECB and with it Europe is being forced into an endgame with three once improbable outcomes. That endgame will play out in weeks and months, not quarters and years.

The dilemma concerning Iran is whether a power imbued with an absolute ideology can be allowed to be in control of an absolute weapon. Since a military solution is highly improbable, what are the serious alternatives?

His rise was improbable, because Putin is no career politician, but someone whose worldview was shaped by his experience in the KGB, an institution that operated beyond public scrutiny and without fear of legal or other constraints.

The court with its improbable blend of Cambodian and foreign judges and attorneys as well as laws is meant to be a model for judicial reform and independent justice in a country where impunity has long been the rule.

What happens if the outcome matches the bookies predictions? There will presumably be months of attempts to build coalitions out of improbable alliances then maybe there will be another election (assuming Parliament can change the law mandating its five year term).

Ironically, 2006 is also the year that Russia takes over the chair of the Group of Eight industrialized countries, which is set to meet in Moscow this spring. The improbable theme that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for the conference is energy security.

WASHINGTON, DC Vladimir Putin s improbable rise to the pinnacle of Russian power in 1999 2000 was partly the result of an elite consensus about the importance of restoring order to the Russian state after a decade of domestic crisis and international humiliation.

The 1990 s concept of a European Defense Identity within NATO proved to be unviable and since then expansion of the alliance and proliferation of NATO partners has made the idea of a special collective role for EU members all the more improbable.

It may seem improbable, but they can find guidance from the United Kingdom. Just as Chinese industrialization is unprecedented no developing country has grown by more than 10 per year without interruption for two full decades Britain s industrialization 200 years ago was similarly unparalleled.