Sentence examples for a plausible event from inspiring English sources

The climactic meeting of Joao and Maria -- she's virtually naked, he's just out of prison and fireworks are going off all around them, so you kind of know what's coming -- feels more like the playing out of a narrative conceit than a plausible event in the lives of two people.

Which seemed like a dangerously plausible event for a man of considerable means who also likes a drink.

But not too reassured, as the FSA goes on to say "...although there is a range of plausible event risks that could crystallise".More useful are the FSA's "alternative scenarios" about what could threaten the stability of the system, including a flu pandemic, a deterioration in personal-credit quality, and (somewhat tautologically) a reappraisal of risk by investors.

LONDON — An unlikely character, bald and blunt, a "good bloke" in native parlance, has emerged as a pivotal figure in Britain's May election, at once the country's most popular politician and a possible chancellor of the Exchequer in the plausible event of a hung Parliament.

My parents chose to separate a few days after the very last plausible event to bring them together (barring any unusual tragedies, extremes, my theoretical wedding, etc): my college graduation.

A plausible dispersal event was determined for five of the six cases examined.

We describe an alternative semantical view of update in which observations are incorporated into a belief set by: (a) explaining the observation in terms of a set of plausible events that might have caused that observation; and (b) predicting further consequences of those explanations.

3) The range of uncertainty gives an indication about whether an uncertainty can be expressed in statistical terms (i.e. as a subjective probability distribution), or in terms of scenarios (i.e. as a range of plausible events, without any definitive information about the relative likelihood of each scenario).

A scenario can be described as a hypothetical sequence of logical and plausible events put together in a way that draws attention to causal relationships and decision-making anchors [13, 14].

Thus Candide derides optimism, for instance, with a deluge of horrible, historical (or at least plausible) events with no apparent redeeming qualities.

Parsimony is not just a question of how many steps are required, but also whether those steps are plausible events.