A story like Jude's is improbable but certainly possible".
Seemingly unaware of the possible effect of his words, he added: "There is something worse than recession, and that's state bankruptcy: an improbable, but nevertheless possible, hypothesis".
Prospect theory also claims that people regularly miscalculate probabilities: they assume that outcomes which are very probable are less likely than they really are, that outcomes which are quite unlikely are more likely than they are, and that extremely improbable, but still possible, outcomes have no chance at all of happening.
To the long list of new financial regulations that were once considered improbable but now seem possible, add this one: a tax rule that would treat the investment gains of partners in hedge funds and private equity firms as ordinary income rather than as capital gains.
When Swann added some late impetus with a counter-attacking 34 from 22 balls, England sensed the improbable was possible but Malinga ended those hopes when he came back to bowl Patel in the penultimate over before Kulasekera took care of Swann.
Grouping passages into categories probable, improbable, possible but unconfirmed is a useful exercise but does not go very far toward determining a realistic portrayal of Jesus as a historical figure.
Ten plays later, the two combined for the touchdown that made the improbable suddenly possible.
After Alexander burnt out and Hasselbeck regressed to the solid but unspectacular player he always really was, Seattle floundered for a few years before returning to the playoffs in one of the more improbable ways possible, winning the NFC West in the 2010-11 season with a 7-9 record in the first year of new head coach Pete Carroll.
Because for diehard Yankee fans, there is something magical, even sacred about the Stadium: to walk from the drab, gray sidewalks outside into the brightly lit arena and glimpse that asymmetrical splash of green is to move from a sepia-toned Kansas in "The Wizard of Oz" to a Technicolor Never-Never Land, a place where the improbable becomes possible.
After four days of entrancing golf, during which Watson's chances to win a record-tying sixth Open went from improbable to possible to playoff, Cink crushed Watson in the four-hole playoff, beating him by six strokes (two under versus four over) for his first major championship.
