Sentence examples for improbable venture from inspiring English sources

That original production, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, was itself an improbable venture: a musical rendition of Victor Hugo's 1862 five-volume, 365-chapter novel that uses its complex plot and huge cast of characters to meditate upon history, politics, moral philosophy, justice and religion.

At first glance, a Sanders campaign of any kind would seem to be an improbable venture.

Even the United States with the manifest audacity to throw its military strength around in the most improbable ventures in the most improbable of places, shrinks from affirming its advertised values.

Today, he is the publicist for an improbable new venture.

But with military checkpoints everywhere and a very real fear of terrorist attacks, the success of even this venture seems improbable.

The Beria incident makes it improbable that any prudent Bolshevik leader would venture beyond the Kremlin even for a few days.

Two days later, Novell and Netscape Communications, a leading Internet-software formedformed a joint venture called Novonyx, whose slightly improbable task is to get big companies to use both firms' (rival) technologies.

To reach Russia's untapped oil, and maintain production growth and downward pressure on world prices, geologists will be venturing into more remote and improbable landscapes.

If you are raising venture capital, that story is by definition highly improbable, involving such an absurd overthrow of the order of things that it's almost embarrassing to say out loud.

Into this second category falls the effort by Flatiron, a venture firm founded by Fred Wilson and Jerry Colonna in 1996 with the seemingly improbable idea, at the time, of making Internet investments in New York.

I think back on my first shameful venture in "legitimate journalism" every time I come across the latest improbable recipe for some new cocktail.