Sentence examples for unlikely loss from inspiring English sources

That win, coupled with United's unlikely loss to Wigan kept City within shouting distance.

It was an unlikely loss, especially for one young fan that the CBS cameras exploited for maximum emotional appeal.

It helped that the Yankees' 73-year-old owner, George Steinbrenner, the most notorious bad loser in US sport, was still smarting from the unlikely loss to the Florida Marlins in last October's World Series.

A young Boris Becker facing questions about his unlikely loss to Peter "the Becker Wrecker" Doohan.

This scenario would postulate an unlikely loss of one or the other of these genes in the majority of species examined.

Thus, if the lysozyme were present in the last common ancestor of all domains, it would require the unlikely loss of the gene in dozens of lineages while maintaining it in an exceedingly small number of species.

The defending regular-season champions need to win at Kansas State on Saturday and hope for unlikely losses by Iowa State to both Texas Tech and Baylor, who are a combined 6-22 in the league.

PAGE A16 A Day for Spoilers in N.F.L. Playoff hopes for the Jets, the Saints and the Falcons suffered setbacks in unlikely losses, but the Giants' hopes remained alive with a rout of the Cowboys.

We show that BD were more risk seeking when anticipating large unlikely losses compared with HV, an effect consistent with previous reports of decreased sensitivity to aversive reinforcement in BD (26).

Daniel Holtgen, a spokesman for the European Aviation Safety Agency, said it was highly unlikely that loss of cabin pressure alone would have caused the incident.

If one nurtures the relationships with family and friends over a lifetime, abandonment by them is highly unlikely upon loss of a spouse.