Sentence examples for comparison the chances from inspiring English sources

In comparison, the chances of getting fatally struck by lightning are 10,495,684 to one.

As crime lord Dryden Vos says, to deliver the coaxium in time, "You'd need an incredibly fast ship and a brilliant pilot". Solo has solved a problem with the Kessel Run: because space is unimaginably big and the Millennium Falcon is insignificant by comparison, the chances of a small ship colliding with celestial objects such as asteroids is low (probably near zero).

After all, the 50-50 ofds of a marriage surviving "til death us do part" start to look pretty good in comparison to the chances of hitting a royal flush at the poker table.

The odds ratios can be interpreted as a comparison of the chances of the outcome being equal or higher than a specific category as a ratio of the chances of being lower [ 20].

And as long as Dutch scientists score relatively highly in all sorts of international comparisons, the chance that the Dutch science budget will be raised to a decent international level seems to be rather small.

For between-condition comparisons, the chance that the true (unknown) values for COD runs were higher (i.e., greater than the smallest practically important difference, or the smallest worthwhile [difference] change, SWC [0.2 multiplied by the between-subject standard deviation, based on Cohen's ES principle]), similar or lower was calculated using a specifically-designed Excel spreadsheet [ 41].

(By comparison, the Red Sox' chances of winning Game 6 of the 1986 World Series had peaked at about 99 percent).

Since multiple comparisons increased the chances of identifying overlapping clusters, the significance level was set at 0.01.

But polite talk paled in comparison with the chance for a horse-crazed volunteer to get an autograph from Darren M. Chiacchia, a handsome rider who was competing on seven horses, or to gossip about what happened to him on the cross-country course.

We walked off the pink court with a win on Saturday night, but that win pales in comparison to the chance for victory in the ongoing battle against breast cancer.

However, as Keskiner argues through her comparison between France and the Netherlands, the chances for children of (Turkish) immigrants to enter more prestigious school tracks are greater if the education system asks for family involvement before school choices are made instead of basing the school decision solely on merit, as it is in the Dutch education system.