In highly polarized and politicized Venezuela, it is unlikely that upward of 20 of voters have yet to decide what they will do.

One way or the other, the financial crisis is likely to slow medium term Chinese growth significantly.

It is highly likely that today s recession will drag on for many more years in both America and the EU.

Although this scenario might now seem implausible, it is actually quite likely to occur.

This is the main reason why it will be difficult for Japan to conclude the proposed trilateral FTA, despite Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda s recent endorsement of it.

For now, it looks very much as if, come 2015, the world s leaders will have failed to keep their (watered down) promises.

5) Within the wider EU, solidarity threatens to decline.

It is also extremely important that most of Fatah s new leaders have a strong distaste for Hamas, which makes rapprochement between the two groups unlikely.

2. For the foreseeable future, democratic governance is likely to be organized largely within national political communities.

But bankers strongly reject this approach (because it would likely lower their pay), as do central bankers (because they are too much persuaded by the protestation of bankers).

They thus pose a significant threat of inflation, and the uncertainty about their future course is likely to discourage investment.

So it is very likely that when the global economy has returned to a sort of normality and safe haven demand has declined, the prices of US government securities will fall and their yields will rise.

On the top chessboard, military power is largely unipolar and likely to remain so for a while.

With China and the US out of the picture, the problem will likely get far worse before it gets better.

As soon as economic activity in the United States revives, interest rates on government bonds are liable to shoot up indeed, the yield curve is likely to steepen in anticipation.

It is highly likely that desired health expenditures will be enormous for some things and trivial for others.

But neither diplomatic stance is likely to continue indefinitely.

Unfortunately, it is much more likely that, at least ahead of Germany s autumn 2013 elections, key decisions will be postponed or avoided.

And if unemployment in Europe and North America stays elevated for two or three more years, it is highly likely that we will have to face it.

To some extent, the answer is yes.

Up to a point, this is understandable.

That impression is correct to some extent.

That is rather unexpected.

It is very likely that, in the short term, growing imports of expensive liquid natural gas and other fuels will continue to exert pressure for change.

The crisis also convinced most of us that non cooperative outcomes are likely to be distinctly sub optimal in terms of growth, stability, and sustainability.

It is more than likely that the young and impulsive Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili fell into the trap that he had helped to create.

This is somewhat reassuring.

He is correct, up to a point.

Yes, to some extent, such is the price of progress.

But, without vastly improved screening practices, prostate cancer screening is unlikely to help and can even do serious harm.

India also has fairly extensive investments in a number of countries in Africa.

But if the exit looks comfortably large, the public will be much more likely to remain calm, even if parts of the room are already filling with smoke.

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

When tax evasion is extremely common, taxpayers are likely to experience high transaction and psychological costs in resorting to tax auditors to enforce the issuing of receipts.

For most of them, this is quite a rare experience.

My survey's results lend some support to this theory.

To some extent, they are right.

In fact, this is partly the case.

At least it makes me feel like, to some extent, it is becoming self evident.

But further trials alone are unlikely to bring about the long term settlements that the region s fragile states need in order to ensure stability and democratic development.

Every once in a while, I get somewhat depressed and a little obsessional.

But despite the challenges, the Benghazi Skype School has been a success so far.

The drop out rate from general education schools has been fairly stable.

Each of these applies to some extent to technologies for adaptation.

So, instead of targeting specific diseases that are much more likely to occur when people have reached a certain age, wouldn t a better strategy be to attempt to forestall or repair the damage done to our bodies by the aging process?