Sentence examples for mildly unlikely from inspiring English sources

It seems, to put it mildly, unlikely.

It is, to put it mildly, unlikely that our normative theory of justified punishment will justify our existing penal institutions and practices: it is far more likely that such a theory will show our existing practices to be radically imperfect that legal punishment as it is now imposed is far from meaning or achieving what it should mean or achieve if it is to be adequately justified.

In the end, "The Baxter" is a Baxter of a movie: well meaning and mildly likable, but unlikely to sweep you off your feet.

To put it mildly, we are unlikely ever to see anything like it attempted again.

Second, while hypoxemia could reduce FVC in diabetes and MetS, mildly reduced FVC is unlikely to be associated with significant hypoxemia (5).

Therefore, currently available information would suggest that, because the majority of feminized males at effluent-impacted sites are mildly intersex, it seems unlikely that the intersex condition alone would result in short-term population crashes on the scale of those observed in previous long-term (albeit high concentration) EDC exposure studies (e.g., Kidd et al. 2007).

Bottom Line It's unlikely that a mildly skilled rookie quarterback can fix the mess that a veteran like Palmer deemed unfixable.

However, parents of mildly overweight young children are unlikely to seek treatment, given the general lack of awareness of overweight for this age group [ 3- 8].

At a moment that requires genuine political change, voters are unlikely to convinced by a mildly left-wing re-brand from the Tories.

There's a solid chance the recipient will be mildly disappointed by this gift, but it's equally unlikely they'll show it.

(Dargis) 'Cloud Atlas' David Mitchell's wondrous novel — a 6-stranded tour de force spanning centuries of past and future history and nearly every novelistic genre under the sun — seems an unlikely candidate for a movie, to put it mildly.