Sentence examples for slim likelihood of from inspiring English sources

Andrew J. Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University, said the alternatives would have at least as much chance of preventing attacks on the United States as a large-scale counterinsurgency effort, which he said would last 5 to 10 years, require hundreds of billions of dollars, sacrifice hundreds of American lives and have a "slim likelihood of success".

In a 2008 report, the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute ("IBAHRI") claimed that the "slim likelihood" of a successful defence to defamation, combined with high damages awarded in cases involving PAP officials, "sheds doubt on the independence of the judiciary in these cases".

But, Bush added, it would be "better" for Obama's successor to make the nomination because of the slim likelihood that a divided Senate would confirm any nominee.

Still, the odds of such an injury are quite slim, and with the likelihood of an N.B.A. season diminished following the players' recent legal maneuver, China becomes an increasingly more palatable option.

"I think the chances are very slim," he said of the likelihood of disaster, when he made public remarks on Friday to observe the anniversary of the start of the war.

For Snowden, the likelihood of joining was slim.

"I can see the benefit if it actually does stop coin sellers – the likelihood of that is slim to none, though," he writes.

All I can hope is that the money [from it's sale] goes to charity but the likelihood of that is slim.

PricewaterhouseCoopers will also inevitably lose some of its current consulting business because some clients are technology companies that compete with I.B.M. John R. Joyce, I.B.M.'s chief financial officer, said the company would like to keep those contracts, but he noted that "the likelihood of that is slim".

"That the Assembly approved the project doesn't mean that the company has found the investors to make it happen," said Geoff Thale, program director of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group, adding that as with "lots of big commercial ventures that are announced with lots of bells and whistles," the likelihood of success was slim.

They didn't feel that someone who was a black teenage mother should set their hopes so high, knowing as they did that the likelihood of success was slim.