Sentence examples for a slim likelihood from inspiring English sources
Andrew J. Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University, said the alternatives would have at least as much chance of preventing attacks on the United States as a large-scale counterinsurgency effort, which he said would last 5 to 10 years, require hundreds of billions of dollars, sacrifice hundreds of American lives and have a "slim likelihood of success".
In a 2008 report, the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute ("IBAHRI") claimed that the "slim likelihood" of a successful defence to defamation, combined with high damages awarded in cases involving PAP officials, "sheds doubt on the independence of the judiciary in these cases".
But, Bush added, it would be "better" for Obama's successor to make the nomination because of the slim likelihood that a divided Senate would confirm any nominee.
Despite the heady atmosphere on Friday, protesters and activists in Tahrir Square's choked approaches, bus shelters and plazas predicted an increasingly bitter standoff, given the slim likelihood that the president planned to accede to their demands.
Whereas simulation of a slim (vs. wide) body shape increases choice likelihood and product attitude when consumers have a health-relevant shopping goal, packaging shape does not affect these outcomes when consumers have a hedonic shopping goal.
A slim and stately debutante,.
He put down a slim screwdriver.
That measure passed by a slim margin.
