Sentence examples for view of chance from inspiring English sources

Prospects look rather better on a reductionist view of chance (Supplement A.3).

So while chance factors are involved in evolution, natural selection is the antithesis of the public view of chance.

In addition, his views of chance variations that arose during embryonic development, which produced what he called "hopeful monsters," suggested that new evolutionary genetic combinations could arise prior to their actual utility in a given environment.

And certainly views of chance according to which chance is a real objective phenomena, grounded in the chance setup of a mass phenomena, will endorse the stable trial principle.

(For a related view of relativised chance, though motivated by quite different considerations, see Glynn 2010).

All groups had an inappropriately optimistic view of their chance of cure, in agreement with other studies (Daugherty et al, 1995; Cheng et al, 2000), and patients with LEP had poorer understanding of the status of their disease and their expectation of cure.

He had taken a glum view of his chances at trial.

All his life, Redford says, "My father had a doom's eye view of taking chances.

But if Mr. Romney gets no convention bounce at all, or a bounce of only one or two percentage points, it will be appropriate to take a more pessimistic view of his chances of winning in November.

"I began with a very optimistic view of the chances for life on Mars," he said after the mission results were reported.

Kieren Fallon, second-favourite in the betting on Aidan O'Brien's next jockey, takes a much more pessimistic view of his chances than the market.