But the package, while probably better than nothing, is unlikely to make a noticeable dent in the problem — in part because the insistence of the administration and Senate Republicans on blocking precisely the measures, such as expanded unemployment insurance and food stamps, that are most likely to be effective.
Nothing is unlikely in the land of Dr. Seuss, where what he calls "logical insanity" rules.
Defence diversification "has produced nothing and is unlikely to produce anything of substance in the future", McCluskey's email said.
Perhaps Figueroa should not have been allowed the header back to him, but really it was something of a goal from nothing from another unlikely source.
And all for nothing: tariffs are unlikely to help most American steel makers, the more competitive of which are doing quite well without them, and meanwhile the far more numerous steel users are suffering.In this section How sick is Europe?
In this rabid utilitarianism – which understands the price of everything but the value of nothing – they are the unlikely bedfellows of that arch-moderniser Josef Stalin, whose mantra it was that "Quantity has a quality all of its own".
Now, however, most sensible observers believe that nothing, other than an unlikely rejection by voters, will prevent Mr Blair from soldiering on for at least another three years, until he reaches his tenth anniversary as prime minister.The result is that some of the verdicts which Mr Seldon reaches about his subject should be seen as more provisional than the author suggests.
Sweden's OMX, whose rival bid for the LSE in 2000 helped ruin Mr Seifert's previous merger plan, has said nothing, but is thought unlikely to act this time.Even before the German offer, analysts had predicted that Euronext would bid for the LSE sooner or later, almost out of desperation.
McDonald's late consolation did nothing to spur an unlikely Millwall fightback as Kike replied a minute later with Boro's fifth.
