"An outcome in which house prices grow more rapidly relative to income and do so for longer is … quite plausible," he said.
It represents a process and an outcome in which Syrians themselves remove the regime and successfully safeguard the integrity of their national political community.
How do we overcome the terrorized Iraqi population's fear of an outcome in which Saddam again snatches survival and revival from the jaws of defeat?
But time invariably heals artistic schisms, and in recent years the youngest generation of composers has determined an outcome in which neither side has won.
The same would apply, to a lesser degree, to an outcome in which Russia, while notionally accepting Ukrainian sovereignty, covertly controlled parts of that country.
No, we could have a stable outcome in which all countries converge on consumption rates considerably below the current highest levels.
That may hamper chances of the most desirable outcome, in which children are fostered by relatives or adopted locally.
Just as possible is an outcome in which the government decides to push ahead with neither one nor the other.
The other derives from a possible contradictory outcome, in which the conflict ends abruptly, perhaps with the collapse of Colonel Qaddafi's forces around Tripoli or his death.
But the electoral-popular split remains less likely than an outcome in which either the state or national polls are simply off the mark.
That points to a timid outcome in which the federal government cedes a few regulatory areas to the Länder and they shed some of the Bundesrat's veto power.
