No country has achieved the remotest success with prohibition, but Britain's archaic laws have been the least successful.
In 1947, Bragg met with Mellanby and explained the difficulty of the work, the remote chances of success and, if success were achieved, the likelihood that it might well be a long time before the information would be of practical use to medicine.
From a legal perspective, experts say, the lawsuit has a remote chance of success.
That play would usually result in defeat by several additional tricks, and had only a remote chance of success.
NASA officials had initially said little or nothing could have been done to rescue the crew, but a later analysis for the board suggested that a high-risk effort to launch a rescue mission had a remote chance of success.
And even Kemal Dervis -- a leading opposition figure and, as an elite, polyglot former World Bank official, the antithesis of Erdogan -- told me he thinks the government's success, remote as it seems now, would truly reverberate.
If Americans really believe — as Senator Obama in particular argues — that Afghanistan is the right war and a place appropriate for Iraq-style nation-building, then they must understand both the cost involved and the remote likelihood of success.
Thus, employees are willing to accept smaller equity packages than at startups in remote cities where success appears harder to attain.
Developing a strategy that has even a remote possibility of success necessitates responding not to old realities but to the recent developments that have shifted the power balance towards Assad and away from the rebels.
But if that is his intention, he does not have the remotest chance of success.
