Sentence examples for became probable from inspiring English sources

As the unlikely became probable, the swagger that characterized Louisville's run sagged.

In the process of invalidating bingo, the court killed the law that also sanctioned raffles, and suddenly the fund-raising efforts of scores of legitimate charitable and nonprofit groups became probable also-rans.

As the vote progressed, and as the possibility of rejection became probable and then certain, there was a hush on the floor as the normally boisterous members realized what the outcome would be.

The number of these three types of workers who became probable SARS patients, according to the World Health Organization definition (1), was recorded.

In the estimate's declassified version, possibles became probables, and caveats were cut, as scraps of potentially alarming intelligence emerged as terrifying facts.They were being instructed to make that case fully and publicly, and suddenly it didn't look quite such a "slam-dunk"Numerous qualifiers—"we judge that", "most analysts believe that"—were excised.

"The impossible becomes probable through struggle," said the African American academic Manning Marable.

When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

This year, even with prices stabilising, the food price index remains at 210 – which some experts believe is the threshold beyond which civil unrest becomes probable.

If present trends continue, and if North Korea manages to maintain its nuclear capability through the inability of the parties to bring matters to a head, the proliferation of nuclear weapons throughout Northeast Asia and the Middle East becomes probable.

Many of these Loyalists did not part with the colonial majority until well into the imperial crisis, and for many, as we'll see, it's not until independence becomes probable, and when real, actual separation from the mother country is at hand, that they felt compelled to declare their loyalty to the Crown and actually break away.

Ezra Klein's account of how it is that a Supreme Court ruling against Obamacare became a real possibility is rather less sensationalistic, but it seems to me Mr Klein is asking the same exasperated question: how did it become probable, much less conceivable, that the Supreme Court will strike down the greatest liberal legislative achievement in a generation?