The situation is certainly improbable, but it's not inexplicable.
Ok, so maybe I wasn't really the very oldest person at the three-day festival in the Indio desert last weekend, but I was certainly the most improbable person in the daily crowd of 78,000.
"Perhaps B (the proposed defeatee) is improbable or unlikely with respect to part of what I believe," she says, "but it is certainly not improbable with respect to the totality of what I believe, that totality including, of course, B itself".
So will the current outburst persist until the comet arrives at the sun on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 28)? "Whether by chance we have caught the comet at the peak of the outburst is certainly debatable (to me rather improbable) and it may well still brighten further," Bortle said.
The American, though, has never subscribed to that belief, saying always that it may be improbable but it is certainly not impossible; nothing in his book is.
While both the "Better Deal" legislation and AT&T/Time Warner challenge are certainly worth noting, a radical shift in U.S. policy is highly improbable.
"The Petrified Forest" isn't a great play -- the story is a bit too improbable for that -- but as presented here, it's certainly an enjoyable one.
The pink paper is certainly not alone in making the link between the Bergamese club's improbable rise and that of the Foxes last season.
The resulting magazine, Jacobin, whose ninth issue just landed, has certainly been an improbable hit, buoyed by the radical stirrings of the Occupy movement and a bitingly satirical but serious-minded style.
A story like Jude's is improbable but certainly possible".
