It is also possible that expanding treatment options in later years increased the possibility of loss to follow-up due to unrecorded self-transfers.
The move increased the possibility that SABMiller might have to raise its bid.
Gooden's improbable revival from being out of baseball to going 3-0 with a 1.86 E.R.A. has increased the possibility that Cone could be removed from the rotation.
Wallace believed that Harry Truman's confrontational policy toward the Soviet Union increased the possibility of war, and he ran as a self-identified peace candidate.
The government increased the possibility of answering that question when it secured Mr. Fastow's plea and he began to cooperate with the criminal inquiry.
Development of modern transportation has greatly increased the possibility that many Indian communities in time will cease to exist.
The fall increased the possibility that his governing Liberal Democratic Party might lose seats in July's upper house election; an outright defeat could spur calls for him to step down as party leader and prime minister.
The Cipla offer has greatly increased the possibility that poor nations will be able to treat AIDS, especially if it provokes brand-name drug makers to lower their prices, as it seems to be doing.
In so doing, Japan rescued the Kyoto protocol on climate change from extinction and increased the possibility of eventual ratification of the treaty that President Bush has said his administration will have no part of.
Tsipras increased the possibility of Greece having to conduct repeat elections, a prospect that would throw the country into ever deeper tumult, when he rejected attempts by Samaras to form a coalition.
Spreading economic desperation in Syria has increased the possibility of betrayal, extortion and abduction, according to news media advocacy and rights groups.
