Sentence examples for as likely a from inspiring English sources

A HIT animated series about a family of documentary filmmakers would seem about as likely a prospect for children's television as persuading the stern primatologist Jane Goodall to become a guest star.

In the mid-1980s and even as late as 1987, Solidarity was seen by many, including most of its activists, as likely a thing of the past.

After all, Barack Obama, for all his flaws (and in my view they mostly revolve around his distressing lack of omnipotence, though his big moves in Afghanistan make no sense to me, and not because I'm a peacenik) is as likely a Jed Bartlet-like president as we are going to have in the real world.

But social disadvantage surely promotes a sense of inferiority, which seems at least as likely a catalyst for crimes like rape.

That doesn't make him as likely a nominee as a more traditional candidate like Mr. Rubio, Jeb Bush or Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin.

Six years ago, 3D cinema seemed about as likely a candidate for a revival as Odorama.

South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup, a feat that 25 years ago would have seemed about as likely as a capitalist Russia or a black president of the United States.

A woman is as likely as a man to be able to do this.

For the Knicks, a victory is about as likely as a playoff berth, especially with Camby on the sideline instead of the court.

In the 1970s, a black man was twice as likely as a white one to get arrested.

Asians are almost 80 times as likely as a white person to be detained at an airport or port".