Sentence examples for some likelihood from inspiring English sources

"This has some likelihood to work.

In a competitive game, people are not likely to put forth much effort unless they perceive some likelihood of winning.

Perhaps it is a national failing, but I prefer moderate hope and some likelihood of success to the dream of perfection and the promise of failure".

That possibility gains some likelihood from the fact that some Indian flagstaffs were surmounted by a figure similar to that displayed on the flag itself.

One difference is that twenty years ago after we went upstairs there was some likelihood of our getting the bicycle we wanted; this year the chances are very thin.

Litigants had to show some likelihood that they had not received a fair trial in order to get a hearing, Justice Silbermann said, adding, "We couldn't, just because we disagreed with the results, set them aside".

"Surely you remember that Smith-Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals donated an endowed chair to the department and that there is some reasonable likelihood that Janssen Pharmaceuticals will do so as well," he wrote.

Governments can set aside those issues in the name of promoting democracy or enhancing global economic security; companies can only justify investment if there is some realistic likelihood of eventual return.

Religion has also recently been proposed as a factor which may challenge some immigrants' likelihood of becoming citizens, as questions about gay marriage and church-state relations appear in some citizenship tests (Dronkers & Vink, 2012).

Mastiu became hopelessly confused if I tried to describe anything that had happened in the past, or tried to indicate some future likelihood or intention.

Firstly, we found that the experience of unemployment at baseline was associated with some increased likelihood of attrition from the survey.