Sentence examples for altogether unlikely from inspiring English sources

The phrase "altogether unlikely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a strong belief that something is very improbable or not expected to happen.
Example: "Given the circumstances, it seems altogether unlikely that the event will take place as planned."
Alternatives: "highly improbable" or "completely unlikely".

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These agreements have strengthened the creditworthiness of banks engaged in international business and would have been altogether unlikely had the banks themselves not supported them.

JERSEY CITY — It sounds at first like a student's worst nightmare: A long field trip to this gritty, gentrifying and altogether unlikely destination.

Gurira recently stole every scene she was in as Okoye in Black Panther, so her upping sticks and leaving The Walking Dead in favour of the Marvel gravy train isn't an altogether unlikely proposition.

In order to prevent workers from moving to other factories in search of further overtime, Foxconn may have to adjust base pay upwards arguably a victory for workers (unless that price pressure should cause Foxconn to abandon China altogether, putting those workers out of jobs altogether; unlikely, but it's eyeing other markets for manufacturing).

After two hours and nine minutes, she left court a 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 winner, and headed for an altogether unlikely semi-final on Friday against Kiki Bertens, who beat the eighth seed Timea Bacsinszky 7-5, 6-2 in an hour and 52 minutes with considerably less angst on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

Since January 1691 Marlborough had been in contact with the exiled James II in Saint-Germain, anxious to obtain the erstwhile King's pardon for deserting him in 1688 – a pardon essential for the success of his future career in the not altogether unlikely event of a Jacobite restoration.

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A third option, giving up altogether, seems unlikely, since Democrats have big majorities in both houses of Congress (though it is possible that in-fighting among Mr Obama's allies could yet scupper even modest reforms).Officially, the White House is sticking with its original plan for comprehensive reform this year.

BBC1 and BBC3 will be swallowed whole by the Olympics, with EastEnders and the like shunted to BBC2 for the duration, and BBC3's so-called youth programmes, like Snog Marry Avoid? and Don't Tell the Bride, suspended altogether – something unlikely to prompt an avalanche of complaints.

(Removing the cap on fees altogether would be unlikely; although both Oxford and Cambridge protest that they have no ambition to match Harvard's or Princeton's prices, even the possibility is beyond political contemplation).

Since not even the equality-conscious Nordics have yet managed to get rid of the employment gap altogether, it seems unlikely that gains on this scale will be realised in the foreseeable future, if ever, but there is certainly scope for improvement in some rich countries and even more in emerging markets.

However, like many other conclusions with the topic, the likelihood of AI taking over music altogether is very unlikely.

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