Improved chances for peace are harder to see, but there are some hopeful -- if not definitive -- signs.
In the long run, Mr. Bush may actually have improved chances for slowing manmade changes in the world's climate.
Some analysts have suggested one possible outcome of the prisoner exchange may be improved chances for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.
A longer 1996 contest might have improved chances for Lamar Alexander, a former Tennessee governor who is now a senator, to overtake Mr. Dole.
POINTS AND MORE POINTS Somehow, Texas A&M's upset of Alabama last week became validation for the Big 12 Conference, and thus No. 2 Kansas State's improved chances for a B.C.S. title bid.
But, as I wrote in an earlier blog, Afghanistan's development gains are critical in helping its economy adapt through the post-2014 transition period and enabling a virtuous circle of improved productive capacities, economic growth, and improved chances for stability.
In fact, in a perverse way, the Israeli assault on Gaza has improved chances for such an arrangement by politically strengthening Hamas, the Islamist militia, which is no match for the Israeli military but has already scored a psychological victory.
Many authors were able to demonstrate improved chances for survival in selected patient groups [ 10- 14].
Just as new opinion polls show an improving chance for Marine Le Pen to win the first round of the upcoming French presidential election, the far-right candidate is facing scandal, with two of her aides taken in Wednesday for police questioning.
The combined approach of surgery and IUI may offer improved chances of pregnancy for infertile women with endometriosis.
