Sentence examples for holds unlikely from inspiring English sources

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Even if the ceasefire scheduled for February 15th holds (unlikely, on past form), he seems certain to get what he wants there: a wretched little quasi-state in the Donbas, which he can use to stall and warp Ukraine's development.

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What it means is that if Chelsea's defense can hold (unlikely) or if Drogba can steal a second goal on the counter (much more likely) it'll be Barcelona chasing the game even though the Blues are down a man.

WITH four full-service sushi bars within three-tenths of a mile of one another, Dobbs Ferry holds the unlikely distinction of being the sushi capital of Westchester.

The plot veers into contrivance, and there\u2019s a slight surfeit of scenes in which social niceties are cracked or overturned, but the atmosphere on the sunlit island grows creepier by the minute, and Buckley holds the unlikely tale together.

In Texas, Democrats currently hold an unlikely 17-13 advantage in congressional seats.

RBS took advantage of this, for instance by setting the "confidence interval" (essentially a measure of how much capital should be held against unlikely occurrences) at 96%.

Perhaps the senator would cave and agree to hold hearings (unlikely) in which case McConnell would reveal that he was not standing on principle when he said he would not consider any nominee.

A few moments later, Oregon would hold an unlikely 8-0 leafterter head coach Chip Kelly had his high-octane team convert a 2-point conversion after the very first score of the game.

We suggest that these beliefs were sincerely held, and unlikely to be due to either patient demand or method of reimbursement, as evidenced by the GPs' own willingness to undergo PSA testing and also the lack of difference in testing practices observed between private patients (reimbursed on a fee-per-item basis) and public patients (capitation).

On one wall, for example, linear structure and materialist assertion holds together an unlikely set of works by David Hockney, Jean Dubuffet and Franz Kline; on the opposite wall, by contrast, Surrealist and Symbolist works by Max Ernst, René Magritte and Marc Chagall offer illusory fantasies of alternate realities.

TO UNDERSTAND why an exhibition on the history of chocolate is being held in the unlikely venue of the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, you need to bear in mind the 17th-century approach to medicine.

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