Sentence examples for receding possibility from inspiring English sources

So what of the admittedly receding possibility that Harmison, at 31, might have more international cricket in him?

While such a strike seemed like a receding possibility in recent weeks, it had remained a possible "October surprise" that worried the White House and military planners.

A panicking Democratic establishment and a swift entry into the race by Joe Biden would have presented a much more alarming scenario — one that now appears to be receding as a possibility.

"Watteau's paired lovers, locked in their agonizing, delicious indecision, are emblems of the ever-approaching and ever-receding possibility of love," Perl concludes.

The more governments that gather around America's tent, if not inside it, before a war (the reasoning goes), the less likely they will be to squabble over the rebuilding of Iraq afterwards.Until recently the council's formal blessing for, or even its mere acquiescence in, the use of force had seemed a fast-receding possibility.

If, as Williams asserts, Cameron's slogan is looking a little threadbare at the moment, that's not a unique insight either, especially on a day when the prime minister floats the idea of requiring young couples to live with their parents while they save up in pursuit of the ever-receding possibility of a mortgage.

As the weeks and months of fighting continue, the Commandant and his men realise the prospect of victory is receding, replaced by the possibility of being rendered up to a war crimes tribunal.

Having spent his golden years with the club, at the age of 31 Torres was keen to see out his career at the Vicente Calderón but with his loan deal running out at the end of this season that possibility is receding.

That possibility receded when federal cap-and-trade legislation died in Congress in 2010.

He surrendered, and the conquest of Canada began to recede as a possibility.

And has the memory of his father receded too? "The possibility that he is alive estranges him from me," he says sadly.