Sentence examples for an improbable source from inspiring English sources

The idea of using transponder chips to time runners came from an improbable source.

But the current renaissance of British brewing owes much to an improbable source of good cheer: Gordon Brown.

— In these days of smartphones and social media, a small-town radio D.J. like Big Jay Fink may seem like an improbable source of emergency information.

That tip, by an improbable source in an unrelated case, promised more than it delivered, but it set off an expansive new look at a disappearance that has frustrated detectives for 19 years.

Page A11 New York RADIO D.J. IN CATSKILLS CAME THROUGH IN A STORM A small-town radio D.J. like Big Jay Fink may seem like an improbable source of emergency information, but as the banks gave way and power went down during Tropical Storm Irene, Mr. Fink served as a lifeline for people across the Catskills who were cut off from just about all forms of communication.

Given an improbable source in the past, it will spread backwards in time to more probable regions of the phase space too.

A MUCH-NEEDED little antiquities museum has been created in Beijing by a most improbable source: a giant state corporation that was long notorious for its global weapons sales and was until recently a branch of the People's Liberation Army.

But it too is something of a fiscal fudge, pilfering money from clean-ups of leaking fuel, tariffs and other improbable sources, without completely compensating for the shortfall in the highway fund.Moreover, the Senate bill has a lifespan of just two years (whereas the House bill has five), in a deliberate effort to skirt the growing cracks in the funding formula.

It snuggles next to the nation's largest nuclear plant and, having exhausted local sources, it depends on an improbable infrastructure to suck water from the distant (and dwindling) Colorado River.

It seems an improbable partnership.

It seemed an improbable statement.