Sentence examples for achieved an improbable from inspiring English sources

She achieved an improbable double by winning the coveted Man Booker Prize twice in the last four years, most recently in 2012, for the first two books of a planned trilogy about intrigue in the court of Henry VIII.

The simple manoeuvre of replacing Labour's front man has achieved an improbable but widespread amnesia about its shortcomings; yet Mr Cameron is held obscurely accountable for mistakes made when he was scarcely out of short trousers.He can consider himself unlucky, too, in the unpredictable vagaries of political chemistry.

Now, at last, after four elections and 18 months of political turmoil and economic stagnation, Peru has the chance not just to close an extraordinary and damaging chapter in its history, but to rebuild its democracy.Mr Toledo won by only five percentage points over Alan Garcia, an incompetent ex-president who has now achieved an improbable political rehabilitation.

And he looks not at the history of any one company but at a series of episodes, each involving a different entity at a different time.In this way, Mr Litvin formerly an environment and resources correspondent of The Economist has achieved an improbable feat.

That left India with a target of 299 to achieve an improbable victory in a minimum of 83 overs.

Millions of people voted for his promise to achieve an improbable reversal of the decades-long structural decline in American manufacturing.

But markets may not be convinced that either institution has the political stamina and the financial firepower to shield Italy durably from danger unless Rome achieves an improbable twin conversion to fiscal discipline and economic growth.

Mr. Ozon, who has confessed to taking a few liberties with Fassbinder's script, presents a beguiling and disconcerting blend of anxiety and comedy, and achieves an improbable marriage of Gallic levity and Teutonic gravity.

The Times of London called him an "old dog," in its headline, and wrote that he "looks older than his 71 years and every bit as tired as he should be, having just dragged his campaign from the grave to achieve an improbable victory over half a dozen younger rivals for the Republican nomination".

No club has achieved such an improbable comeback since the Premier League was established in 1992, and it takes a die-hard optimist to believe Sunderland can do it this year.

Their quotidian fixations and pious self-posturing achieve a magnificently improbable universality: look past the talk of seaweed farming and pilgrimages to sacred wells, and you start to sense that the corpses' gripes and tall-tales — about drunken excursions, sticky-fingered neighbors, scheming paramours — are the same ones heard at bars and bus stops from Baltimore to Beijing.