Sentence examples for decided unlikely from inspiring English sources

Recently, he discovered that the same was true of his friend, playwright Michael Hastings, who muses: 'We were perhaps unconsciously trying, as kids, to restore order to the ruined city around us.' So they decided, unlikely as it may sound, to write an opera set in postwar London about a schoolboy who collects bus tickets.

They decided this was unlikely.

The nomination, which had seemed all but decided, now seems unlikely to be squared away before then.

We decided it was unlikely that a grave was being dug right at our doorstep, but other unpleasant possibilities suggested themselves.

After the figures were released, global stock markets turned even higher, while the dollar's weakness was sustained as investors decided it was unlikely that the Fed would start reducing its $85 billion worth of monthly asset purchases this year.

But even if the F.T.C. decided it was unlikely to prevail in court, there was no reason for it to buckle completely and to close down its investigation of the search engine.

BEGIN was a phase III study of ocrelizumab in patients with active, non-renal SLE, but was terminated early when its sponsor decided ocrelizumab was unlikely to benefit this population (NCT00539838).

Following these interviews, I decided that although unlikely, the consequences of inadvertently identifying a participant through using pseudonyms (e.g., if a woman had concealed her full name from me) were too serious to risk.

In the end, prosecutors decided that it was unlikely that the 2004 incident was consensual.

He had given thought to the possibility of aids, and decided that it was unlikely.

In a fit of scientific skepticism, we decided to calculate how unlikely Joltin' Joe's achievement really was.