The more educated a woman is, the more she is likely to seek health services.

Obama is likely to be more diplomatic than his predecessor, but he is also likely to be more demanding.

Food and energy prices are more likely to be affected by monetary policy.

Mr. Desanker mentioned that the most critical constraint is likely to be funding.

Much of what is being said and written in Lebanon is more likely to be rumors than not.

One or several tipping points would most likely bring the process to a screeching halt.

But it is more likely that the regime is too rigid and too blinkered to act.

Unlike North Korea, Iran is more likely to care about its international standing.

Being less developed, the thorax of an adolescent is likely more prone to this injury given the circumstances.

The fact that the Geithner Plan is likely to be profitable for the US government is, however, a sideshow.

CDM projects have a rigorous mechanism for ensuring additionality, for avoiding double counting, and for monitoring and verification.

So, when the Islamist revolution does return, it is likely to be even more powerful and violent.

The repercussions are likely to be all the more disruptive when, sooner or later, the regime falls.

Without this expectation, the EU s policy would likely be even more costly.

More generally, fiscal stimulus is unlikely to have much lasting effect, as is the case now.

In coming years, the German government is likely to be more vocal in European and global debates. It is likely to present the German model as something that corresponds more closely to what the world needs in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

For that very reason, the outcome of the war is likely to be more satisfactory than many now seem to believe.

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

The economic significance of new financial products is likely to grow more rapidly as foreign banks enter the market.

While the regulations are likely to reduce the likelihood and impact of financial crises, they will also make long term loans more expensive and investments in illiquid assets riskier.

No breakthrough is likely, but the outcome could be more favorable than many expect.

Obama has waited over a year to suggest his bank reform, and it is unlikely to pass.

Negative wealth and income effects this time around will be more severe, and the recovery process will probably take longer and be more complex.

Yet in domestic terms the Islamist regime is likely to be better off than it would have been with a more moderate result.

The two cannot really be compared One is a safe choice, but not likely to have a huge impact the other is riskier, but ultimately may be more worthwhile.

The greater the repression that religious parties face in secular police states, the more extreme their politics are likely to become.

But neither Perry nor Kobach is likely ever to be a US president, whereas Theodore Roosevelt was more than a partisan.

The new normal that results will likely include scarcer, more expensive long term bank lending.

Slower growth and more modest real wage increases are likely, which will reverse households optimistic expectations.

As a result, Abe seems likely to remain in power longer than his ineffectual predecessors, most of whom did not last more than a year.

Change must begin in the transport sector, which accounts for more than half of current oil consumption a share that is likely to rise in the future.

But the form of Chinese support for Greece will likely benefit China far more than Greece in the long term.

People and governments around the world are far more likely to become more open if the American model is perceived to be succeeding.

And Saudi Arabia s large middle class is likely to respond to diminishing prosperity by calling for a more representative political system.

He will probably be more forceful at regional meetings in responding to Chávez, believing that Venezuelan support for the FARC guerrillas is too blatant to be overlooked, and that it is wiser to confront him sooner rather than later.

The dishonoring of greed is likely only in those countries whose citizens already have more than they need.

It is unlikely that the adjustment process will be much faster in the US, where the manufacturing base has shrunk much more sharply.

Warming will increase some extremes (it is likely that both droughts and fires will become worse toward the end of the century).

Formulating monetary policy has become a more complex process, but also a more politicized process, which is why it is likely to become more chaotic, with sharp differences between national approaches.

Bayrou has never had it so good, but, barring the unlikely collapse of one of the two leading candidates campaigns, he will fail to qualify for the second round runoff.

Change did not occur in a uniform manner and the devolution of power over local government to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland means that future changes are also unlikely to be uniform.

For governments, contracts are more likely to be durable if they are negotiated in a way that enables countries to receive fair and predictable long term revenues.

The Syrian opposition, a crucible of widely different groups and currents including Al Qaeda will most likely become even more radical following Morsi s ouster.

China will likely go to great lengths to foster a more positive attitude among the dozens of European leaders visiting this year s World Expo in Shanghai.

What are the possible ramifications for such a policy on sectarian violence in Pakistan? Is it likely to exacerbate and make more deadly sectarian cleavages or the opposite?