Sentence examples for measures chances from inspiring English sources

But as the measures' chances faded this week, Senate leaders decided to rush the process, reaching a bipartisan agreement to hold nine votes in succession, each with a 60-vote threshold for passage.

But the two Utah Republicans sponsoring the legislation -- Senator Robert F. Bennett and Representative Christopher B. Cannon -- argue that any protection is better than none, and with the Clinton administration supporting their measure, chances of passage this year seem likely.

Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were used to measure chance-corrected agreement.

As a result, three mathematical models are constructed for the problem, i.e., expected value model, chance-constrained programming model and measure-chance programming model, where the supplies, demands, conveyance capacities, direct costs and fixed charges are regarded as uncertain variables.

Frequencies of each motif were then modelled according to a hypergeometric probability distribution that measures the chances that the frequency of a given motif would be observed if the input sequences would have been selected randomly.

"An older one who's been around for years almost always measures his chances against his physical stamina.

With two imprecise measures, the chances of finding high correlations even when the underlying constructs are highly correlated are reduced.

Measures of chance or probability were derived secondarily from these expectations.

We report results using chance-independent agreement (phi), which generates less biased agreement measures than chance-corrected agreement (kappa).

With the measure's chances looking more promising, new groups have been examining the bill's provisions more closely.

An agreement would increase the measure's chances of survival as part of the Senate's energy bill.