To all of those, perhaps we should add the rising likelihood of failure, both the expensive kind and the cheap kind.
"The small rise in September P.M.I. indicates a rising likelihood that the downward trend in economic growth is stabilizing," Zhang Liqun, a researcher with the Development Research Center, which is under China's cabinet, said in a statement accompanying the data release.
And the arrival of François Hollande in France, with his stated hopes of modifying the fiscal compact, plus the rising likelihood of a Greek exit from the euro, are creating new uncertainties.Irish voters have been asked to approve no fewer than nine EU treaties in the past 40 years.
(See Ambacs Surprisingly Strong Day and Ambac Gets Handout, Not Bailout) Ambac was forced to increase its capital base to cover the rising likelihood of defaults mortgage-backed bonds, a result of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis.
Prominent drugs makers including Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough should be in focus once again as investors consider the rising likelihood the United States Congress will pass a prescription drug benefit for elderly and handicapped persons.
The rising likelihood that he'll lose his bid for a fifth term probably explains why he has stooped to a remarkably disingenuous and laughable line of attack against his Democratic opponent, Sharice Davids, just days ahead of the Nov. 6 elections. .
A third example regards the involvement of heavy vehicles that largely rises the likelihood of bus passenger injury.
The researchers from the Swiss university ETH Zurich who conducted the study say as temperatures rise, the likelihood of extreme weather events rises non-linearly.
That is, that the more intelligent, who scored high on a vocabulary test, would drink more than the dumb, who scored low... I've rarely seen such a stark near-monotonic trend" -- that is, as scores rose, the likelihood of drinking rose directly.
"With Brexit still very much unfolding, the extent of economic and political uncertainty has risen, and the likelihood of outcomes more negative than the one in the baseline has increased".
Since Clinton's health problems began dominating the news, her supporters' average likelihood of voting has dropped 2 percentage points while Trump supporters' likelihood has risen by a point.
