Sentence examples for diminishing likelihood from inspiring English sources
At a tripartite meeting in July 2016, the three transport ministers had acknowledged the "diminishing" likelihood of finding the plane.
But the diminishing likelihood of a Tory victory, and of an in/out referendum in 2017 (Labour has still not, and may not, promise a public vote), means it will be harder for him to warn that we're heading for Brexit.
While the market's gains were broadly attributed to the apparently diminishing likelihood of a 'Brexit,' other moves were more company-specific.
(In my next blog, I'll discuss the diminishing likelihood that any Chicago school reform will ever take place).
Victims of Communism Day can serve the dual purpose of appropriately commemorating the millions of victims, and diminishing the likelihood that such atrocities will recur.
"Crime goes up, diminishing the likelihood of punishment, which causes crime to rise again," said Alejandro Hope, a former senior intelligence officer for Mexico.
There may well be a gem among these releases, but, if so, flooding the market with them and thereby diminishing the likelihood of any one critic seeing them all is hardly the way to unearth it.
This hypothesis is based on the idea that deep thaw in antecedent years would reduce ice contents in the transient layer42, diminishing the likelihood that repeated high rates of late-summer thaw would generate elevated porewater pressures.
Though people rarely carry much cash in a world full of ATM machines, diminishing the likelihood of muggings, he writes, "That said, it would seem easier to pick people's pockets these days, or just conk them on the head with a club like so many baby seals as they cruise down the street, clicking away on their BlackBerrys totally unaware of their surroundings".
We suspect that these inhibitory interactions help to promote allelic exclusion by diminishing the likelihood of simultaneous V to DJ recombination on both alleles.
