Sentence examples for made likely by from inspiring English sources

Conway is unusual among her murder squad colleagues in being both a woman and non-white, emphasising an outsider status already made likely by her loner persona and explosive temper.

More generally, a peace is made likely by the history of the 440s and 430s, which records no more overt Athenian warfare against Persia and a certain restlessness inside the Athenian empire.

Here, the truth of the first sentence is not guaranteed (but only made likely) by the joint truth of the second and third sentences.

This is made likely by Foliot's confirmation of a gift of land from Ralph Foliot of Warpsgrove to Ralph's son, and it is possible that Foliot was the brother or uncle of Ralph Foliot.

The bonds went unclaimed for the usual reasons of mortality and forgetfulness — a process made likelier by their 40-year terms until payoff.

This can be a somewhat confusing convention since it is clearly the evidence that is made likely to whatever degree by the hypothesis.

Viewers have berated me either for failing to explicitly blame climate change in my reporting of the floods - or for suggesting that the rain may conceivably have been made more likely by the rising presence of manmade greenhouse gases.

A heat wave in Chicago in 1995 killed hundreds, and the 2003 European heat wave, which studies have shown was made more likely by manmade global warming, killed an estimated 40,000 people.

Those issues will remain unresolved unless and until an international window is agreed for the I.P.L. season, a development made less likely by the scandals and uncertainty that have beset the competition over the last year.

He said a decision would be made, most likely by Sunday, on whether to proceed with any of them.

Yet "internet revolutions" are made less likely by the use of tribe, family and religion to distribute favours, money and jobs.