"unlikely for him" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is unlikely to happen to or involve the person in question. For example: "It seemed unlikely for him to take on a job so far away from home."
It would have been unlikely for him to reach this point in his career if he was an openly gay man, and that's an unfortunate comment on our society".
If the committee finds Mr. Rangel guilty of the charges, he could receive a punishment ranging from a letter of admonishment to censure or expulsion from the House, although ethics experts say it would be unlikely for him to be removed from Congress.
Yet it would also be unlikely for him to be able to completely elude his Iran pledge.
He said the squad would aim to finish eighth or better in the opening team time trial and that Zaugg was the squad's general classification rider, though it would be unlikely for him to finish higher than 15th.
War seemed such an unlikely outcome for him.
The obvious, but unlikely, choice for him is the 20 hardline right-wing deputies of the Slovak National Party: its leader, Jan Slota, once said that the country's Roma "problem" could be solved with a "big whip and a small yard".
A winning score of seven under par would force Mickelson to shoot a 64 or better in order to beat Glover, and Woods would have to shoot at least a 62, unlikely even for him.
Hou applies his trademark style to this most unlikely genre for him, resulting in a Tang dynasty tale that alternates hallucinatory longueurs with sudden flurries of action, like a trance punctuated by fits of St Vitus Dance.
Despite his protestations that his staff are journalists, not detectives – which, in any case, felt an extremely unlikely position for him to take – Bel and Freddie did plenty of digging about this week and, assisted by the increasingly brilliant Isaac, managed to reach some fairly astonishing conclusions.
She said Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, was the most experienced of the current crop but she is unlikely to vote for him.
(None of these women were hand-picked by the Obama campaign; some were Republicans; two said they would be unlikely to vote for him).
