Sentence examples for likely ordinary from inspiring English sources

The author of this social history maintains that the vibrator, which was designed in the late 1870's, was the last in a long line of devices used by doctors to treat hysteria, a feared disease that was more likely ordinary female sexual desire.

However, as there is no record of any denomination higher than one penny (then struck for circulation in silver) being used in the Maundy gift before 1731, sets from before then are most likely ordinary circulation strikes.

Certainly the justices are more likely than "ordinary citizens" to cite Constitutional doctrine; presumably they've read lots of it.

As a practical matter, he said, such an amendment "would likely paralyze ordinary and ongoing activities of the co-op".

Implanted in mice, the stem cells were 100 times more likely than ordinary cancer cells to grow into tumors.

In Korea, it's highly likely that ordinary wage earners cannot buy a home even after working for more than 10 years.

Science writer Malcolm Gladwell fell for a mathematician's claim to be able to predict divorces with 94% accuracy and the Freakonomics team fell for the erroneous claim that beautiful parents are more likely than ordinary-looking parents to have female babies.

At first sight, professional, highly-trained regulators seem a more likely bet than ordinary depositors.

For similar reasons, attempts at state control of religion in the region are likely to drive ordinary people into the arms of the fundamentalists.

It determined that neutron stars are most likely composed of ordinary matter and not some exotic form, such as strange quarks and kaons.

A likely majority of ordinary Egyptians support the army-backed regime, and were in favour of breaking up the Brotherhood's protests.