Sentence examples for improbable outcome from inspiring English sources

That appears an improbable outcome as the tournament reaches its 18th season.

The peace process - and the Nobel Peace Prize that it brought to Rabin, Arafat and Peres - was the improbable outcome.

After his last challengers could not defeat him, Miller, a contrarian of Olympic caliber, assessed the improbable outcome, his first Olympic gold medal performance.

This seems a highly improbable outcome for Goldman but the damage to its reputation as a result of the S.E.C. case could nevertheless be costly.

In an unlikely season that has included devastating injuries, plans for games to be played in Toronto and weekly announcements about who would start at quarterback, a victory over the Patriots would seem a fitting — if utterly improbable — outcome.

But given the improbable outcome of this season, nothing is really certain and the only thing that we can be sure of is that this will be one hell of a final.

Photo: In one of the Kentucky Derby's most improbable outcomes, the 50-1 shot Giacomo, fourth from left, with Mike Smith aboard in green silks, finished first.

The greatest business icon of our era, Steve Jobs, was legendary for his "reality-distortion field," which allowed him to convince people that improbable outcomes were not just possible but certain.

Mr. McGuinness has pulled off improbable outcomes before, notably in helping to bring Sinn Fein, the I.R.A. and Northern Ireland's mostly Roman Catholic Republicans into the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.

The sudden surge in the most improbable outcomes, coaches, players and analysts said, can be explained by an amalgam of factors, many of which stem from the migration of the no-huddle and spread offenses from college football to the N.F.L., and the years quarterbacks have trained in that style before they turn professional.

"This is one of the most extraordinary and improbable outcomes anyone could have anticipated," says Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, who is conducting trials for Pfizer and other drugmakers.