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But most people familiar with the men agree that its subject matter was likely chosen by Kerouac.

Mr. Yaacoub was most likely chosen for covert operations because of his European upbringing and Swedish passport, an asset for anyone hoping to travel unobserved around Europe.

Even so, they tempered their optimism, suggesting that he was more likely chosen because, as one pundit put it, the Bush-Cheney circle regarded him as "a familiar old friend to all of them, experienced and capable, above all loyal".

When, in 1866, Dickinson's "A narrow Fellow in the Grass" appeared in the Springfield Daily Republican (under a title likely chosen by its editors, "The Snake"), Dickinson complained to Higginson that, among other problems, she was "defeated . . . of the third line by punctuation".

Estrin, who refers to Gregor as a "5-foot-6-inch cockroach," has either opted not to read or (more likely) chosen to ignore Vladimir Nabokov's Cornell lecture on "The Metamorphosis," in which the novelist-naturalist declared that, given Kafka's description, Samsa could not be a cockroach but rather was a beetle, and only three feet long at that.

Monday's launch titles are a stimulating and eclectic bunch – they include the cherished documentary Grey Gardens, Roman Polanski's ultraviolent take on Macbeth and the 1980s favourite Tootsie – but even they were likely chosen for reasons of pragmatism: most were already owned by Sony, Criterion's UK distribution partner.

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When you go to visit a place you really like and will most likely choose, remember to bring your checkbook so you can put down a deposit.

I'm betting that both will likely choose accordingly.

A Republican administration would most likely choose fewer taxes and less spending than a Democratic one.

If you were privy to the interim analysis, you would most likely choose the new drug over the placebo.

And should he succeed in moving the team to Brooklyn, the borough-centric owner would most likely choose a moniker more fitting of the team's new home.

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