Sentence examples for unlikely instead from inspiring English sources

A mooc v trad uni mega-battle to the death is unlikely – instead online courses offer another option on higher education's menu of delights.

Holt might have been uncomfortable with an alive-or-dead dichotomy, but in her effort to create satisfying ambiguity, both possibilities come to seem equally unlikely instead of equally plausible.

That's unlikely: instead, the New York's final games against the folly-filled Washington Nationals, once circled as potentially season-deciding encounters, will be more about resting up those young, innings challenged pitchers than anything else.

The government, in the five-year programme it is putting before parliament, says that "western military supremacy renders direct confrontation unlikely"; instead, there could be "asymmetrical threats, adopted by state or non-state players"—ie, attacks on France's water-supply, say, or its computer networks.

I was a mark off perfect because I said it was "unlikely" instead of "impossible" that humans could dig to the centre of the earth.

The literature shows that general results for optimal quality choice are unlikely, instead requiring specific assumptions (Tirole 1988).

In November it was reported that Aldi Süd was looking to enter China but analysts still think this unlikely.Instead of expanding to more countries, Aldi and Lidl are likely to concentrate on spreading across America and doing even better in places like Britain.

By 10 tonight, an early end to the session seemed unlikely, and instead of going out on a more productive note by approving a number of bills in the last few hours, the caucus leaders of both parties left them to die on the House and Senate floor.

This suggests that intracomplex activation within a single MASP-1 dimer is unlikely and instead supports intercomplex activation, whereby the MASP SP domains are accessible to nearby PRM-bound MASPs.

The trajectory of your idea or company has yet to be set, and you're burning valuable time chasing capital from unlikely sources instead of doing the most attractive thing to investors: building a valuable company.

This view was challenged by "extensionists" such as Joseph Dalton Hooker (1844), who argued that long-distance dispersal across persistent barriers was unlikely, and instead continents must have been connected in the past by tracts of dry land and now-submerged landbridges over which organisms dispersed.