Sentence examples for be likely to fail from inspiring English sources

And because of the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, the measure would be likely to fail there.

China could veto any United Nations resolution, and if it was unwilling to enforce sanctions along its border, any efforts to isolate North Korea would be likely to fail.

Some of the weakest pension plans would be likely to fail if the rule were rolled back for two years, because their sponsoring companies might still be unable to come up with the needed cash when the two-year reprieve expired.

At this stage it is not clear quite what he means, or how extensive those transitional arrangements might be, but the new measures will still have to get through parliament and anything less than a substantial package would be likely to fail.

It is not just that any potential safeguards aimed at blocking the slide would be likely to fail, but that one would even attempt to impose such safeguards only out of confusion.

This makes program-level imitation highly efficient: if the imitator is an infant, and the model much larger and stronger, precise copying would be likely to fail.

And absurd bills like a broccoli mandate are likely to fail other constitutional tests.

Anything less is likely to fail.

"It's likely to fail.

Both are likely to fail.

The stimulus is likely to fail.