Sentence examples for unlikely state from inspiring English sources

Dave Eggers's Heroes of the Frontier is an unlikely state of the nation novel.

It's simultaneously cheering and odd, but it seems a far less unlikely state of affairs when you see them live.

Utah, governed by a Republican legislature with a libertarian bent, may seem an unlikely state to pursue particularly tough penalties governing driver behavior.

PHOENIX — President Obama's re-election campaign is dispatching workers across Arizona's college campuses and Latino neighborhoods this spring, registering as many new voters as they can in an organized, three-month effort to determine whether they can put this unlikely state into play for Democrats this November.

From then on, however, Metallica's set is plain sailing: the oft-expressed belief that the whole thing will prove an under-attended disaster – a fairly unlikely state of affairs, given that Metallica have sold 120m albums and have spent decades playing to crowds the size of the one assembled in front of the Pyramid stage – proves to be desperately wide of the mark.

So how did our universe start in such an unlikely state?

And the Democrats have recruited strong candidates in unlikely states, like South Carolina.

He seems genuinely to believe that zero-sum conflicts are often illusory (with the large exception of terrorism) and that there are common interests between unlikely states.

"Also shocking is how unlikely states are to look at any of the paper, even in a surprising and close election like this," Halderman said.

From the Northeast to the Southwest, the Democrats have such a strong hand in this year's Senate contests that they sense the possibility of victories in unlikely states like Oklahoma and Mississippi, and now even Alaska, which last elected a Democratic senator in 1974.

Priscilla Duncan, the attorney who represented the four Alabama voters named in the case, argued that while those paper ballots are kept for 22 months, "the paper ballots aren't really what's counted" and only an unlikely state-wide recount would consult the paper ballots.