Unlikely in a sentence as an adjective

The evidence suggests it is highly unlikely they are true. Most rape victims don't tweet about how it's "amazing" to hang out with "cool" and "smart" people after being raped, or throw a party for their rapist.

It seems unlikely but the very fact that we even need to ask that question says a lot. - Obama's war on whistleblowers exceeds that of all presidents that came before him."

Take the least amount of stock possible - your startup is statistically unlikely to succeed. It'd be better to bump your salary up $10-20K than to get the stock.

After all, they took a risk, and if they think no-one noticed it then they are unlikely to do it again. One should criticise when politicians do things you don't like, but complement them when they do something you approve of.

Similarly: "Python is so slow that Google reset the network connection" seems a bit unlikely too. Google, and TCP in general, deals with slower, less reliable senders than you.

When I come to your site it is very unlikely I'm looking for any sort of long term relationship. What I want is access to the information I'm looking for as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Risk is unlikely to **** the deal outright, but it could delay things and create uncertainty in the acquirer. All of a sudden they start talking about putting an extra 10-15% in escrow, or doing an earn-out instead of a straight acquisition, as a hedge.

Since they are already providing it for free to those who need it, and producing at as free software, selling it as a finished product is unlikely. > If you were truly concerned about online privacy, you'd build it anyway.

I would bet none of them speaks a word of English so it's unlikely the letter from a doctor in the US meant anything to them. They felt entitled to prevent the taking of pictures in the restaurant and felt they were being played with false official documentation.

Is it to be comprehensive to try to catch and fix everything that is even potentially material, even if it deals only with issues that are highly unlikely to arise? Or is it to be something in between?

Much though some people might think that spreadsheets are not for serious work, they're being used for that right now, and that is unlikely to change. Better to figure out how to improve the tooling, rather than undertake the quixotic quest to get business people to abandon their perfectly viable programming tool.

You remember your PW or can prove to EA you're the account owner There's not much history to base this speculation on yet, but what little we do have shows that that's an extremely unlikely scenario. If there's any chance to preserve the games we're playing now, it's probably up to us to make it happen.

Now we who have Internet access can gain endless listening opportunities from Internet radio stations in dozens of unlikely languages. Listen early and listen often while learning a language.

A major earthquake in the area is unlikely but cannot be ruled out," Boschi said. Selvaggi is quoted as saying that "in recent times some recent earthquakes have been preceded by minor shocks days or weeks beforehand, but on the other hand many seismic swarms did not result in a major event".

Emailing her directly is unlikely to produce results and likely to get your name on some kind of terrorist watch list. But going to her superiors and the Boston media to call for her resignation in disgrace over an overzealous prosecution is the right tactic.

I asked a guy there, how can one prevent people from having a bad trip again and the answer was 'well, after such an experience, most people grow up pretty quickly and it's unlikely they would take these substances lightly the next time'. In most countries, these young people would end up in a hospital and then get arrested and possibly spend time in jail.

They are now also vetted against an internal roadmap of planned commercial features, making it impossible or highly unlikely for a feature on the internal roadmap to ever by accepted from outside sources. This has a huge potential to diminish the product as it's available for the community at large.

Had this just been fixed quietly on GitHub, that would certainly be better for GitHub's PR but the wider community might never have realized the lurking horror that the Rails team appears to have been unlikely to do anything about other than point people to the existing docs. This situation shows that pointing people to those docs was clearly an inadequate solution.

As many others have mentioned, if this is a public school, it's quite unlikely that this teacher is college educated as a programmer, let alone has ever been a professional developer. I'm sure they're teaching VB simply because that's what they have experience with, probably making them the most experienced programmer on staff at the school. 2. High school bullies are typically quite good at restricting their bullying to times when they're unlikely to be spotted by an authority figure.

A policy of so-called responsible disclosure is a reasonable approach to take when dealing with an established product/service that contains a minor vulnerability, something potentially dangerous but unlikely to be exploited in the immediate future with serious negative effects. In this case, we appear to have a new project run by people who don't know what they're doing, with a glaring vulnerability that had presumably already compromised 80+ people's sensitive credentials and in turn who knows what other sensitive information.

Because of this discretionary aspect, lower levels of the pyramid, we're unlikely to question the creation of complex and funky new products specifically designed to overcome impediments to maximize that short term bonus. When this giant "ponzi" scheme began to collapse, I saw how those same greedy senior executives proceeded to panic and destroy significant strategic parts of the business solely to stop the leakage of their bonus pool and try and cosmetically dress up the banks short term results to justify and maintain those 6-8 figure bonuses they had thought they were going to receive.

Unlikely definitions

adjective

not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event"

See also: improbable

adjective

has little chance of being the case or coming about; "an unlikely story"; "an unlikely candidate for reelection"; "a butcher is unlikely to preach vegetarianism"

adjective

having a probability too low to inspire belief

See also: improbable unbelievable unconvincing