Nevertheless, the consequence of the policy proposed is everywhere subtly qualified: it is `` a possible result, however improbable '' ; ;

" A person ranking at 7 on the scale would be a person who says " I know there is no God ..." Dawkins places himself at 6 on the scale, which he characterizes as " I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there ", but leaning toward 7.

It is improbable, however, that the production of amber was limited to a single species ; and indeed a large number of conifers belonging to different genera are represented in the amber-flora.

( 16th century BC ) refers to it is improbable ; but we seem to be justified in holding Anah to be the town " in the middle of the Euphrates " opposite ( ina put ) to which

13 ) is exceedingly improbable.

# It is improbable that Athens would have sent twenty vessels to the aid of the Ionians in 499 BC if at the time she were at war with Aegina.

All that at present can be attempted is, to reproduce a single plane in another plane ; but even this has not been altogether satisfactorily accomplished, aberrations always occur, and it is improbable that these will ever be entirely corrected.

Clement of Alexandria ascribed the Epistle of Barnabas to him, but that is highly improbable.

Whether Eridu at one time also played an important political role in Sumerian affairs is not certain, though not improbable.

The Emperor Diocletian is said to have made Florentia the seat of a bishopric around the beginning of the 4th century AD, but this seems improbable as Diocletian was a notable persecutor of Christians.

Since, by the second law of thermodynamics, this is statistically improbable to the point of exclusion, the Carnot efficiency is a theoretical upper bound on the reliable efficiency of any process.

It is, indeed, not improbable that it was as a result of this war that Lord Ochiltree's Committee formed the Statutes of Iona in 1609 and the Regulations for the Chiefs in 1616 was induced to insert a clause in the Statutes of Iona by which ' marriages contracted for several years ' were prohibited ; and any who might disregard this regulation were to be ' punished as fornicators '".

It is highly improbable that one could know all the alternatives, or all the consequences that follow each alternative.

In Burma, a royal library called the Pitaka Taik was legendarily founded by King Anawrahta ; in the 18th century, British envoy Michael Symes, upon visiting this library, wrote that " it is not improbable that his Birman majesty may possess a more numerous library than any potentate, from the banks of the Danube to the borders of China ".

The design is self-conscious, overcharged with rich, artificially " natural " detail in physically improbable juxtapositions of jarring scale changes, overwhelming as a mere frame: Mannerist.

* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.

To be classed as a manic episode, while the disturbed mood is present at least three ( or four if only irritability is present ) of the following must have been consistently prominent: grand or extravagant style, or expanded self-esteem ; reduced need of sleep ( e. g. three hours may be sufficient ); talks more often and feels the urge to talk longer ; ideas flit through the mind in quick succession, or thoughts race and preoccupy the person ; over indulgence in enjoyable behaviors with high risk of a negative outcome ( e. g., extravagant shopping, sexual adventures or improbable commercial schemes ).

The Jets went on to complete an improbable victory of their own on October 23, 2000 in what is known as The Monday Night Miracle.

The magnitude of this number means that it is exceedingly improbable that two randomly selected, truly randomized decks, will ever, in the history of cards, be the same.

`` That crap is softer over here ''.

The hypothesis ventured here is that it does, and that evidence is accumulating validating that proposition.

Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.

Yet his concern even here is with a slowly changing socio-economic order in general, and he never deals with such specific aspects of this change as the urban and industrial impact.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

What appears here is shorter than what he actually said but very close to his own words.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

Mimesis here is not to be confused with literalism or realism in the conventional sense.

Whitehead is here questioning David Hume's understanding of the nature of experience ; ;

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.

What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.

But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

There may be a case of this sort, but it is not one we wish to argue, here.

He is a parent with a child to nurture, here and now, and he is an educator who worries about the children half way round the world.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.

but there is much here also which bears directly on his personal quarrel with Swift.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.