Sentence examples for affairs unlikely from inspiring English sources

It's a shameful state of affairs unlikely to be remedied by one of the stupidest policy suggestions to come out of the housing crisis thus far.

A slick but silly affair unlikely to appeal to anyone over 15. (Jeannette Catsoulis) * 'THE INorating (No rating, 130 minutes, in French) The French director Claire Denis's most ambitious and poetically intuitive film explores the troubled soul of a brooding loner who undergoes a heart transplant and travels halfway around the world, from the Jura mountains to the South Seas, to begin a new life.

This state of affairs seems unlikely to change anytime soon.

This state of affairs is unlikely happen in industry.

The problem, Piketty argues, is that this state of affairs is unlikely to be maintained.

This state of affairs is unlikely to persist (expect an announcement relating to the dukedom of Cambridge or Clarence).

That gridlocked state of affairs is unlikely to change even after the snow melts and the federal government reopens offices.

Realistically, this state of affairs is unlikely to change any time soon, given Washington's budget-cutting mania and the gun lobby's opposition to strengthening A.T.F.'s efforts.

The book opens with the statement that "war no longer exists"; that is, war as "battle in a field between men and machinery" or "a massive deciding event in a dispute in international affairs" is unlikely to happen again.

The emails affair is unlikely to end any time soon, however.

Curiously, it was the same skills that led him to discover extinction that made evolution appear to him preposterous, an affair as unlikely as alchemy.