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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a likelihood of future" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express the probability of something occurring in the future, but it is incomplete and awkwardly phrased.
Example: "There is a likelihood of future success if we continue to innovate and adapt."
Alternatives: "a chance of future" or "a probability of future".
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The results, they were told, would correlate with intelligence and a likelihood of future success.
He refused the Yankees' request to dismiss the case summarily, and refused Ms. Joseph's request for injunctive relief, saying she had not claimed "a likelihood of future harm".
Judge Sidney H. Stein ruled that Ms. Joseph had failed to allege "a likelihood of future harm," a necessary condition for the suit to go forward.
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The judge said it did "not have a reasonable likelihood of future violations".
The presence of plaques with inflammatory components associates with a greater likelihood of future cardiovascular events.
Patient identification by PM-systems, by design, mainly carries forward the health status observed in the past and tries to yield a precise likelihood of future hospitalization.
There was a dose response relationship (inverse) between physical activity and mental ill-health as intermediate and high levels of physical activity were also associated with a lower likelihood of future mental ill-health (fully adjusted linear trend P = 0.002).
For instance, provision of tobacco cessation services (Article 14) is less than optimal [ 10, 47– 49] and in many cases the programs offered form part of research studies, with a low likelihood of future sustainability [ 50, 51].
Schools with a moderate number of PGME programs (1-5), compared to those schools with no PGME programs and schools with many PGME programs (6-14) and French speaking schools, also demonstrate an increase likelihood of future rural general practice.
It is speculated that concurrent abnormalities of perfusion imaging scans in diabetic patients with normal coronary angiograms may be caused by microangiopathy or endothelial dysfunction, and therefore represent an increased likelihood of future coronary events [ 96].
When FDA tests reveal pesticide residues above EPA tolerances, or residues of pesticides disallowed in the U.S., the entire shipment should be removed from commerce (although this may not always occur) and the relevant exporting companies and originating nations may face an increased likelihood of future scrutiny [ 28].
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