Sentence examples for more likely since from inspiring English sources

Did land plants acquire RCCR by gene transfer between a cyanobacterium and a hornwort-like early colonizer host; or (more likely, since there is no obvious trace of the gene in other cyanobacteria) did a cyanobacterial symbiont pick up the gene from its host?

However, is unclear if our data represent a pathologic coupling mechanism unique to epilepsy or normal coupling mechanisms occurring during a pathologic event, although the latter is more likely since the model we employ is one that acutely elicits seizure-like events in a normal cortex.

Unfortunately, demographic trends make the latter scenario more likely, since young people will be a minority, unable to win power through democratic channels.

The first supposition seems more likely, since the Greeks probably had more contact with the seagoing Phoenicians than did the inland Phrygians.

Scientists say that climate change is now making such intense hurricanes more likely, since hurricanes draw strength from warmer ocean waters.

Accidental nuclear war may have become more likely, since the Russian command-and-control system is deteriorating and both countries maintain thousands of nuclear warheads on alert.

Continental Airlines would seem a more likely partner since its routes and international network are a far better match.

If the horse was beaten – or more likely when, since it was a 14-1 outsider – he would call it a day.

Sharp sell-offs and bounces are more likely especially since most world equity markets are down double digits as well as similar declines in most commodities.

I feel this is the the more likely option, since they do say that their materials have variable atomic makeups and can be tailored to this or that spec, and R&D must be their lifeblood.

In fact, the exact opposite is more likely true since the last two abortion clinics in the Lower Rio Grande Valley closed, and others across Texas will soon shut down.