Sentence examples for the opposite possibility from inspiring English sources

There is little prospect that Fed action will lift the economy before the election, but party officials fear the opposite possibility — that inaction could undermine economic confidence — and so they greeted the speech with relief.

That is, a time traveler could kill her grandfather with probability one half, and then she wouldn't be born with probability one half, but the opposite possibility (her being born) is a fair chance with probability one half.

All those modes included the assumption that cells within the T3 subset differentiate into mature B cells; the opposite possibility was not tested in that study.

Rather, we suggest the opposite possibility, that there exists a natural mechanism that acts in the steady state, similar to what occurs with peripheral tissue antigens [38], but that is perhaps even more profound, to tolerize T cells to brain antigens as a default, and for the same end purpose to keep the organ from autoimmune attack.

Fixed abduction and flexion presents the opposite possibility, i.e., of inserting the cup with more anteversion than desired.

"Now, it's quite the opposite; possibilities should be ageless".

But the harsh populist language that peppered Mr Putin's speeches during the election campaign do leave open an opposite possibility - that "Putin Mark III" (his third time around as president) will be more not less confrontational, and more intent on showing his core constituency at home that Russia is not a country to be taken for granted or pushed around by Western partners.

The administration, meanwhile, has been preparing for two opposite possibilities: One in which the Iranian leadership seeks to regain a measure of legitimacy by taking up Mr. Obama's offer to talk — a situation that could put Washington in the uncomfortable position of giving credibility to a government whose actions Mr. Obama has deplored — or one in which Iran rejects negotiations.

Subjects were induced to consider the opposite in two ways: through explicit instructions to do so and through stimulus materials that made opposite possibilities more salient.

At the same time, within the work of these same thinkers, we find the development of the opposite dynamic: the possibility of the return of the human soul or mind to its origin that is, to the metaphysical realms and its reintegration.

The following year, writing in Nature, neurobiologist Larry Young (2009) planted a seed for the modulation of love in the opposite direction raising the possibility of a chemical "cure".