But Mr bin Laden himself might well escape, along with much of his terrorism-planning staff.
"Not everywhere will catch the heaviest of the storms, and some places may well escape altogether".
Beyond the damage the scandal could do to Carlton Hobbs's business prospects, though — and perhaps to those of other dealers — he may well escape more serious consequences.
First, natural gas is composed largely of methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, which over the life of a gas well escapes into the atmosphere either through venting or leaking.
"We may well escape with no recession," an economist said, "but we are likely to have a long period -- a year or more -- of weak economic growth and rising unemployment".
Essentially live-action puzzles (think the Crystal Maze or, for readers of a certain age, Knightmare), the games combine riddles and physical tasks, with the aim being to, well, escape from a room.
You are fairly sure that they are doing a good thing, but unless you jump down and get muddy yourself, the virtue of the task, indeed of the whole canal system, might well escape you.
"We may well escape with no recession," said Robert Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University, "but we are likely to have a long period -- a year or more -- of weak economic growth and rising unemployment".
In the end, Microsoft may well escape with just a fine and yet another bundle of ineffective restrictions on its behaviour.All of which leads to the second conclusion: that Microsoft's exploitation of its monopoly will continue as long as the monopoly itself does.
