Sadly, they are unlikely to end soon.

Moreover, there are several objective reasons why the current friction between Europe and the US is unlikely to lead to divorce.

Major changes are unlikely in the foreseeable future.

The price levels are unlikely to go down.

Even if we can coerce traditional debt free savers to spend, it is unlikely that there are enough of them in Las Vegas.

Given that this is unlikely, supply shortages are inevitable.

These broad perspectives are unlikely to be discussed in Cannes.

These interests are unlikely to change for a long time.

Of course, markets are unlikely to do any such thing.

In Europe, meanwhile, matters are unlikely to be any better.

There are common differences, like the differences between blue eyes and brown eyes, or even between people likely to have Crohn s disease and those who are unlikely to have it.

There will be winners and losers, of course, but systematic sectoral out performance looks unlikely.

Many institutions are unlikely to provide the necessary data at first.

Yet his public confession and apology are unlikely to end the matter.

The stock and housing markets are unlikely to recover any time soon.

Nigeria s northern Muslims are highly unlikely to accept that result without protest.

Today, European leaders are unlikely to throw even that slender lifeline to Bush.

Studies with negative results are particularly unlikely to see the light of day.

Although there are uncertainties about each of these components of growth, their performance in the coming years is unlikely to be as good as it was in recent decades.

Negative reinforcement and delayed gratification are unlikely to achieve their goals unless there is a perceived light at the end of the tunnel a future reward for today s sacrifices.

However, they are unlikely to be fatal to humans, except those who are allergic to the toxins.

Even if a bailout plan were implemented quickly which appears increasingly unlikely there would be some credit contraction.

Now it's very unlikely the first things you're going to see are like robots.

All the signs suggest that they are unlikely to sign a global climate treaty.

Europe or China are unlikely to overtake the Americans in the next two decades.

Despite the announced reforms, it is unlikely that there will be any significant exchange rate flexibility in China s currency.

There were many more economists who believed that house prices, though high, were unlikely to fall across the board.

That seems unlikely.

That looks unlikely.

That seems unlikely.

Serious direct negotiations are unlikely to begin without a freeze on settlement building, which Israel s Prime Minister Netanyahu is unlikely to announce or implement, given resistance within his coalition government.

They are desperate to cling to power, no matter what, and so are unlikely to question Tudor's democratic pedigree.

That, however, is unlikely.

Fortunately, that seems unlikely.

For, whatever Europe s interests are, they are unlikely to be best represented by a seemingly endless war with the Taliban.

Higher taxes may be justified for other reasons, but are unlikely to solve the problem described.

But when the economy is booming, the effects of fiscal retrenchment are unlikely to be damaging.

The Americans are unlikely to agree to this, and South Korea would not want them to.

Many details of the Obama package are unlikely to survive (if, indeed, the plan itself does).

Such steps alone are unlikely to deter Iran or fully to reassure the region s other states.

Alas, given their histories of autocratic rule, giant leaps forward to full blown democracy are unlikely.

Unfortunately, the new sanctions are unlikely to be any more effective than the first two rounds.

With global growth weakening, net exports are unlikely to improve robustly, even with a weaker dollar.

They are unlikely to be punished by the law and they can still keep their posts.

What , when we are dead and turned to dust ? That indeed would be an unlikely return '