Double your fun What's more improbable than winning the lottery?
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Now she's back, with a #TBT that seems even more improbable.
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It only contributes to making Kushner's mission impossible that much more improbable.
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A full recovery sustained through his athletic prime might be even more improbable.
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Of course, DaSilva would need even more improbable outcomes to make that sum.
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At first glance, there could scarcely be a more improbable recruit for liberal economics.
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That plan became more improbable last week as high-profile Democrats supported Mrs. Clinton.
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If she succeeds in this, it will be one more improbable footnote to Mazurenko's life.
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If removing the president by impeachment is unlikely, this is an even more improbable scenario.
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It can also look braver, more improbable, more political — just by the fact of its existence.
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The emergence of Donald J. Trump makes a serious national conversation about government's role even more improbable.
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Now researchers have turned to yeast to do something more improbable: manufacturing the cannabis compounds CBD and THC.
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But there was no planning for the Williams sisters, a tennis success story even more improbable than Hingis's.
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Devin Heroux: It is one of the more improbable comebacks in the history of curling — and perhaps sports.
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Both are Rube Goldberg contraptions, all the more improbable for relying on the emotional reactions of their targets.
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ONE of President Donald Trump's more improbable achievements has been to make international trade negotiations into front-page news.
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Few teams had had more improbable ascensions than Syracuse, the fourth double-digit seed to reach the Final Four.
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This has already been the most unorthodox French election ever, but even more improbable twists may be yet to come.
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The Heritage-Trump alliance is one of the more improbable developments in an election season that was full of them.
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Essentially, the research accurately demonstrated that the more improbable a non-word sounds, the funnier it is likely to be.
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But perhaps the only thing more improbable for France than electing Ms. Le Pen would be to elect Mr. Macron.
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Some Game of Thrones theories, of course, are more improbable than others (like Bran being the Night King: spoiler, he's not).
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This lack of challengers should not detract from Leicester's achievement: there has never been a more improbable victory in any sport.
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Lastly, there's a more improbable—but also more far-reaching—way that the Supreme Court could gut abortion rights in America.
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All of this makes the ascendance of Jidenna, a longtime affiliate of the R&B futurist Janelle Monáe, even more improbable.
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His ascendance is all the more improbable because, in a previous post, he was considered one of France's most unpopular prime ministers ever.
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The movies still feel larger than life and blissfully distant from it, even as life grows crazier and more improbable than the movies.
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Even more improbable, across the street lived a family named Osborne, nearly identical to the last name of Spider-Man's archenemy, Norman Osborn.
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THE only thing more improbable than the Russian national team's performance on the pitch has been the buoyant atmosphere around this year's World Cup.
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Iran was still on its way out of the World Cup, but one more improbable goal in the last seconds would have changed that.
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Yet the complete disintegration of her serve, which ranks among the most potent of all time, was perhaps even more improbable than her defeat from match point.
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Making the homer all the more improbable was the fact that Woodruff, a right-handed pitcher, bats from the left and still took the southpaw Kershaw deep.
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With a pool of roughly 215,22017 contestants in each of the app's two daily matches, Gibbons' spot at the top only became more improbable as time went on.
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That Leila, Liina and Lily come from a nation with a population of just over 1.3 million makes it all the more improbable — and all the more irresistible.
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Westwood was also present in 2012 at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, where the Europeans produced an even more improbable comeback victory, also storming back from 10-6.
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Opelka's close victory on the black wooden courts at the Coliseum denied Schnur, a 23-year-old from Canada, what would have been an even more improbable victory.
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The Yankees won another title with Jeter in 2009, but their end-of-the-century achievement — all requiring a climb through three postseason rounds — seems more and more improbable.
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But, in 6900, he came out of nowhere and won the Republican primary in New Hampshire; to make it even more improbable, he did it as a write-in.
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Solving climate is going to be harder, and more improbable, than winning World War II, achieving civil rights, defeating bacterial infection and sending a man to the moon all together.
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The markets see no real possibility that the other candidates will win, and each is rated as more improbable to win the nomination than Mitt Romney, who is not even running.
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If there is a case to be made against industrial modernity, it cannot be made by Deen, whose perpetual astonishment seems more improbable than any environmental disaster portrayed in the novel.
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The Cubs, in winning the 2016 Series and ending a confounding 108-year championship drought, also produced one of the more improbable sports accomplishments in Mr. Obama's eight years in office.
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Alabama trailed by 13 points at halftime of the national title game when Tagovailoa took over the offense and calmly engineered one of the more improbable comebacks in college football championship history.
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Either way, short of the unexpected collapse of the North Korean regime or the even more improbable capture of Kim, it's is unlikely the supreme leader will be visiting Netherlands anytime soon.
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That curiosity is not inconsiderable, and — as we turn the pages of this peculiar, atmospheric novel — we hardly mind that events are growing more improbable, building toward a surprising but somewhat implausible climax.
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On Wednesday night in Kazan, Hierro and Queiroz met again in much more improbable circumstances as Spain defeated Iran, 1-0, to take a share of the lead in Group B with Portugal.
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They also won almost all of their games last year when Kerr was at the helm (save for the finals, when the LeBronettes made one of the more improbable comebacks in finals history).
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Soon the improbable duo of Nick and Izzy becomes an even more improbable threesome: They find themselves in a reluctant partnership with Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi), a high-ranking member of a Haitian gang.
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Leicester City — pronounced Less-ter — started the season as a 5,000-to-1 shot, but could win England's Premier League title with just one more improbable victory over a heavyweight rival, this time Manchester United.
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But even accounting for history's capricious nature, the event credited with setting off the Arab Spring could hardly have been more improbable: the suicide by immolation of a poor Tunisian fruit-and-vegetable seller in protest over government harassment.
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PITTS, Ga. — There may be more improbable culinary trails than the one that leads from a red clay road here in the country's most prolific peanut-growing state to Beyoncé's plate at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.
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The Pats got a miracle catch from Julian Edelman on the drive that ultimately tied the game, but they would have needed at least one or two more improbable plays to recover from a two-score deficit with four minutes left.
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The opening is one of the more improbable developments in the politics of the former Soviet states, among which Uzbekistan, the third-most-populous former Soviet country, has long been written off as a black hole of repression and poverty.
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Now, Mr. Ganim is hoping to pull off an even more improbable comeback: He is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor amid a crowded field of candidates bidding to replace the Democratic two-term governor, Dannel P. Malloy, who is not seeking re-election.
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But in her new memoir, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, Byrd shares an even more improbable story that even she had trouble believing at first: She claims that Christian was the reincarnation of baseball legend Lou Gehrig, who played for the Yankees nearly a century ago.
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Even more improbable is the Campbell House, a bed-and-breakfast recently acquired by the inn that is made up of a stone homestead and some cottages whose construction and frilly décor are more reminiscent of the New England countryside than something on the edge of a wilderness.
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More improbable still, when the French version was launched in 20023, was the choice of an early special guest, whose challenge is to set the fastest time possible when driving an ordinary car round a race track: it was the rather dour, besuited, centre-right former prime minister, François Fillon.
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RELATED: Trump dissolves voter fraud commission Wednesday was a day on which every blockbuster headline was quickly superseded by another that appeared even more improbable and any sense that the White House could build on its late 2017 tax reform victory to forge a new seam of political wins was lost in the cacophony.
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Even just a year ago, it was hard to say what seemed more improbable: that, in a cloud of scandal, Fox would let go of O'Reilly, its spiritual center and top moneymaker — or that O'Reilly's successor would be Carlson, a faded star whose brand of natty conservatism was on the wane in this new era of Trumpish appeals to the working class.
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Amongst the more improbable wanderers to Britain, perhaps the most surprising is the ancient murrelet from the Pacific.
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But its actual form is no more improbable, in this sense, > than innumerable others. It is only the fact that humans are part of it that > makes it seem so special, requiring a transcendent explanation.
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The magician usually gets a card signed by an audience member and inserts it into the middle of the deck, after which it reappears at the top. This is repeated under more and more improbable conditions, sometimes to humorous effect.
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A song about Scottish clan loyalty in the Hay family. #"The Seven Wonders" (Traditional) #:A Welsh song collected from Jill King. A sequence of ever-more improbable events. #"Four Loom Weaver" (Traditional) #:A song about unemployment in the nineteenth century, possibly dating from 1819-20.
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The extension of the tram line in the area in 2011 made the plan even more unlikely to materialise. A possible extension in the west to Blumenau is even more improbable. In the evenings from around 20.40 to the close of operations, the U4 only operates between Odeonsplatz and Arabellapark.
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They would be out of food on the 15th. The small Union garrison had but half a dozen officers and 127 soldiers under Major Robert Anderson. Famously, this included the baseball folk hero Captain (later major general) Abner Doubleday. More improbable yet was a Union officer who had the name of Jefferson C. Davis.
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In 1947, Mohammad Abdur Rahman Khan, professor at Osmania University and research associate at the Institute of Meteoretics in the University of New Mexico, put forward the hypothesis that antimatter comets or meteoroids were responsible for tektites . However, this explanation, out of the many proposed explanations for tektites, is considered to be one of the more improbable.
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27 Sept. 1992:D1. Print. Iowa State bounced back to shock the seventh-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers at home on November 14, 1992. The victory was even more improbable as Walden's third-string quarterback, Marv Seiler, would make his first career start. Walden's 1993 squad went 3–8, but with an upset of 18th ranked Kansas State.
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It was reported at the start of January 2019 that the construction oversight authority was unwilling to permit the Terminal's wiring as it is, because it was too tangled. Berlin's Tagesspiegel reported that Bosch (fire detection) and Caverion (sprinklers) were unwilling to participate in a hearing of Berlin's parliament on 14 March 2019. It was assumed that 2020 becomes even more improbable as an opening date. The fire protection malfunction seems to be too significant to keep 2020 as an opening date.
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The feat was all the more improbable because Podsednik did not hit any home runs during the regular season in 2005, and had only hit 1 in the ALDS against the Red Sox. Two days later in Game 3, he set a World Series record of eight at-bats in a single World Series Game. In 2006, Podsednik once again led the league with 19 times caught stealing. On November 20, 2007, Podsednik was designated for assignment and released on November 28, 2007.
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In the case of Quik Call I or a string of DTMF digits, the falsing would have to occur in the exact order required to actuate the decoder. This is much more improbable than falsing in a single tone decoder. In two-tone sequential, tone and voice radio paging, decoders are actuated by decoding one tone and then a second in the proper sequence. Falsing could only occur if the two decoders falsed in a valid sequence within the decoder's time constraints.
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Popper accepted Hume's criticism—the problem of induction—as revealing verification to be impossible. Popper accepted hypotheticodeductivism, sometimes termed it deductivism, but restricted it to denying the consequent, and thereby, refuting verificationism, reframed it as falsificationism. As to law or theory, Popper held confirmation of probable truth to be untenable, as any number confirmations is finite: empirical evidence approaching 0% probability of truth amid a universal law's predictive run to infinity. In fact, Popper found that a scientific theory is better if its truth, in appearance, at least, is more improbable.
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According to Scully, the deaths appear to be the result of political terrorism, but Mulder suspects something more improbable. The production for "Teso Dos Bichos", which was strongly disliked by the cast and crew of The X-Files, was plagued by several issues. Director Kim Manners, who had particular disdain for the episode, later made T-shirts and gave them to the cast and crew that read "'Teso Dos Bichos' Survivor". The episode's title translates from archaic Portuguese into English as "Burial Mound of Small Animals," although other translations have been proposed.
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Many players claim to see many "bad beats" with large hands pitted against others all too often at a rate that seems to be a lot more common than in live games. However, this could be caused by the higher hands per hour at on-line cardrooms. Since online players get to see more hands, their likelihood of seeing more improbable bad beats or randomly large pots is similarly increased. Many online poker sites are certified by major auditing firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers to review the fairness of the random number generator, shuffle, and payouts for some sites.
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At the end of chapter 4 ("Why there almost certainly is no God"), Dawkins sums up his argument and states, "The temptation [to attribute the appearance of design to actual design itself] is a false one, because the designer hypothesis immediately raises the larger problem of who designed the designer. The whole problem we started out with was the problem of explaining statistical improbability. It is obviously no solution to postulate something even more improbable".The God Delusion, page 158 In addition, chapter 4 asserts that the alternative to the designer hypothesis is not chance, but natural selection.
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It would be 6 billion–10 billion light-years away and nearly one billion light-years across, and would be perhaps even more improbable to occur in the large-scale structure than the WMAP cold spot would be in the primordial CMB. A 2017 study reported surveys showing no evidence that associated voids in the line of sight could have caused the CMB Cold Spot and concluded that it may instead have a primordial origin. One important thing to confirm or rule out the late time integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect is the mass profile of galaxies in the area as ISW effect is affected by the galaxy bias which depends on the mass profiles and types of galaxies.
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H. Jeanval of The Moving Picture News found the baron to be boorish by shading a lady's hand with a glove on and wondered at how Thanhouser was able to film the prison scenes. Walton, also of The Moving Picture News summed up the film and stated, "Good teaching as to woman's 'class', but as to details[,] sadly lax." The New York Dramatic Mirror panned the film beginning with, "Nothing more improbable or inconsistent has been seen on the screen in some time..." The reviewer concluded the review of the improbable plot as to having been "dreamed up by a ten-year-old girl." The film is presumed lost because the film is not known to be held in any archive or by any collector.
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Minnesota's second championship in three years was even more improbable that their first and the 1976 Golden Gophers became the first team since the 1948–49 Boston College Eagles to have a national champion composed entirely of American players. Furthermore, with Jim Boo having been raised in Minnesota they were the second team to have all of their players hail from one state. Tom Vannelli's 5 points in the title tile earned him the Tournament MOP, however, for the only time in its history the NCAA did not name an All-Tournament Team. No Minnesota players were named to the AHCA All-American West Team and only Reed Larson made an appearance on an All-WCHA Team, earning first-team honors.
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Ludwig also appeared in a 1962 sequence of the annual Disney Christmas Story comic strip. In "Sleeping Beauty's Christmas Story", the professor helps Princess Aurora break Maleficent's spell. Professor Ludwig has often been used by Italian cartoonists, including in some of the long sagas inspired by famous books that they usually produce with the Duck Family, such as "La storia di Marco Polo detta Il Milione" (free translation "The Million - A Story of Marco Polo") and "Paperino in: Il mondo perduto" (free translation "Donald in: The Lost World"). As a result, he has achieved a quite significant popularity in Italy (he's known there as Pico De' Paperis) where he appears as a scholar with multiple degrees in different subject (even the more improbable ones) rather than a scientist.
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Some of his ideas have been readopted by other historians that doubt the historical chronology of the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, while all "mainstream" historians consider them valueless and argue that inventing 3000 years of history, its written accounts, literature, poetry etc. and destroying all the traces of this fraud was a work one generation of writers could never fulfill. The enormous expenditure of work this fraud would have needed makes these theories much more improbable than the coincidence in the literary works pointed out by Baldauf (according to the scientific principle of Occam's razor). The ideas expressed in both books of Baldauf stand in the traditional line of French theologians like Jean Hardouin, Jean de Launoy (1603–1678) and Barthelemy Germon, S.J. (1683-1712 or 1718).
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In CZW dubs the Hardcore match as "Ultraviolent Rules" match, the hardcore-style matches that could involve and emphasize ladders, tables, chairs, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, glass boards, fire, staple guns, and the spirits of Combat Zone Wrestling. In JCW, "Juggalo Rules" match, the Hardcore-style matches that emphasize the spirit of Juggalo Championship Wrestling. Other euphemisms, such as the Good Housekeeping match and Full Metal Mayhem, emphasize the use of certain foreign objects as being legal (the former with kitchen implements and the latter with metallic objects). In a Fans Bring the Weapons match, wrestlers fight with "weapons" that members of the audience bring to the venue (most often brought are standard kitchen household appliances, like frying pans, toasters, or rolling pins, although its not unusual that fans occasionally bring in items that are far more improbable, like an artificial leg or LEGO); this was popularized in the United States by ECW and is now a specialty in Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW).
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In fact, not only RNA and DNA, but many fundamental molecules of life (those common to all three domains of life) are also pigments that absorb in the UV-C, and many of these also have a chemical affinity to RNA and DNA. Nucleic acids may thus have acted as acceptor molecules to the UV-C photon excited antenna pigment donor molecules by providing an ultrafast channel for dissipation. Michaelian has shown using the formalism of non-linear irreversible thermodynamics that there would have existed during the Archean a thermodynamic imperative to the abiogenic UV-C photochemical synthesis and proliferation of these pigments over the entire Earth surface if they acted as catalysts to augment the dissipation of the solar photons. By the end of the Archean, with life-induced ozone dissipating UV-C light in the Earth's upper atmosphere, it would have become ever more improbable for a completely new life to emerge that did not rely on the complex metabolic pathways already existing since now the free energy in the photons arriving at Earth's surface would have been insufficient for direct breaking and remaking of covalent bonds.
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