The United Kingdom, concerned over Newfoundland's likelihood of defaulting on its war-debt payments, established the Newfoundland Royal Commission, headed by a Scottish peer, William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree.

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

Legend has it that the feral ponies on Assateague are descendants of survivors of a Spanish galleon that sank on its way to Spain during a storm in 1750 off the east coast, but the likelihood is that they are actually descended from domesticated stock, brought to the island by Eastern Shore farmers in the 17th century to avoid fencing requirements and taxation.

The term 1 in 100 year storm describes a rainfall event which is extremely rare and which will occur with a likelihood of only once in a century, so has a 1 percent likelihood in any given year.

In Germanic areas occupied by the Roman Empire, coins and votive objects dating from the 2nd and 3rd century AD have been found with Latin inscriptions referring to " Hercules ", and so in reality, with varying levels of likelihood, refer to Thor by way of interpretatio romana.

As a result, the world created is similar to that of twenty-first century Earth, but with a greater likelihood of a violent death.

By the 10th century the church and the estate were in the hands of the kings of Wessex, though the church may have remained a monastery, despite the likelihood of Viking attacks.

The terms " direct probability " and " inverse probability " were in use until the middle part of the 20th century, when the terms " likelihood function " and " posterior distribution " became prevalent.

In the 9th century CE, the Afro-Arab writer Al-Jahiz considered the effects of the environment on the likelihood of an animal to survive.

The likelihood of claims was greatly increased by the vast numbers of passengers who constituted the flood of emigrants to North America and Australia in the second half of the century.

Information on the ethnic composition of the region over several centuries is almost entirely absent, with the strong likelihood that they did not fit into standard " national " patterns, as the 19th century revolutionary nationalist movements wanted.

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

Several theater operators said, however, that there is little likelihood of the subject being discussed during the three-day affair.

He contemplates the likelihood of his future son being a delinquent as he was, a prospect Alex views fatalistically.

However, the lack of notice of copyright using these marks may have consequences in terms of reduced damages in an infringement lawsuit — using notices of this form may reduce the likelihood of a defense of " innocent infringement " being successful.

Quite evidently, careers within the sports and entertainment sphere such as being an elite professional athlete on a sports team, or an entertainment figure such as a pop singer that dominate the pop music charts frequently, or a television actor with lead roles on prime-time shows have strong likelihood to become celebrities.

The scattering cross-section, σ < sub > scat </ sub >, is a hypothetical area which describes the likelihood of light ( or other radiation ) being scattered by a particle.

However, the belief that the Saxons simply wiped or drove out all the native Britons from England has been widely discredited by a number of archaeologists since the 2000s, and the likelihood of that model being severely questioned.

Assume also that the likelihood of a variate being chosen is proportional to its value.

Lesbians and bisexual women have a higher likelihood of reporting problems with alcohol, as well as not being satisfied with treatment for substance abuse programs.

To these scientists, whether a result is significant or not depends on the design of the experiment, not on the likelihood ( in the sense of the likelihood function ) of the parameter value being 1 / 2.

Because of the likelihood of errors being introduced each time a manuscript was copied, the filiation of different version of the same text is a fundamental part of the study and criticism of all texts that have been transmitted in manuscript.

In yet another variation, every person must deal a 1 hand, as the dealer has an even higher likelihood of not being able to bid what they like and therefore being off in a 1 hand.

The pawnshop owner can use a variety of factors to evaluate the likelihood that the customer will return, such as the customer's age, gender, race and body mass index ( BMI ) and balance that against the item being pawned.

With market leading products, the likelihood of being randomly targeted with a new vulnerability remains greater.

Usually this season enjoys clearer skies and more than 13 hours of daylight on average ; when precipitations occur though, there is a higher likelihood of them being thunderstorms and hailstorms.

In 2007, Taco Bell offered the " Steal a Base, Steal a Taco " promotion — if any player from either team stole a base in the 2007 World Series the company would give away free tacos to everyone in the United States in a campaign similar to the Mir promotion, albeit with a much higher likelihood of being realized.

To obtain a TRO, a plaintiff must prove four elements: ( 1 ) likelihood of success on the merits ; ( 2 ) the extent to which the plaintiff is being irreparably harmed by the defendant's conduct ; ( 3 ) the extent to which the defendant will suffer irreparable harm if the TRO issues ; and ( 4 ) the public interest.

The sock also minimizes the likelihood of an object being thrown by a spectator into the large, inviting target.

Finding the maximum of a function often involves taking the derivative of a function and solving for the parameter being maximized, and this is often easier when the function being maximized is a log-likelihood rather than the original likelihood function.

The annotations are followed by an epilogue in comics format, The Dance of the Gull-Catchers, in which Moore and Campbell expand on the various theories of the Ripper crimes and the likelihood — or rather, the near-impossibility — of the true identity of the culprit ever being identified.

A seat belt reduces the likelihood and severity of injury in a traffic collision by stopping the vehicle occupant from hitting hard against interior elements of the vehicle or other passengers ( the so-called second impact ), by keeping occupants positioned correctly for maximum benefit from the airbag, if the vehicle is so equipped, and by preventing occupants being ejected from the vehicle.

He observed: " time has so far impaired the strength of the materials with which it is built, that in all likelihood the care and attention of the present chapter towards the support of it will not be sufficient to prevent the fall of a great part of it at no great distance of time ".

As a consequence, database marketers also tend to be heavy users of data warehouses, because having a greater amount of data about customers increases the likelihood that a more accurate model can be built.

Landscape areas also act as natural drainage systems, reducing the likelihood of flooding in the built up areas of the town, with rainwater flows channelled to the River Leven, or to the Lochty Burn.

Cities have a variety of buildings which may be built or upgraded, such as: temples, aqueducts and amphitheatres which increase the people's general happiness and wellbeing ; markets and academies which respectively increase the city's financial contribution and likelihood of producing effective family members ( see below ); walls which make the city more resistant to assault by enemy armies ; and barracks, archery ranges and stables which unlock new military units which may be trained in the city.

The likelihood of the IFC being built elsewhere is extremely low and the project is considered over at this point.

There is some dispute as to whether it was invented around 1660 by British physicist Robert Hooke or Dutch scientist Christian Huygens, with the likelihood being that Hooke first had the idea, but Huygens built the first functioning watch that used a balance spring.

He said that in all likelihood the Topeka extension would be built in the immediate future, and smilingly intimated that shops would very probably be erected here.

The main obstacle is the fact that demographic trends show the likelihood of a near-term majority Arab population west of the Jordan River ( including the land within the internationally recognized borders of the state of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza ).

This survey enables the ( government ) to estimate the likelihood of victimization by rape, sexual assault, robbery, assault, theft, household burglary, and motor vehicle theft for the population as a whole as well as for segments of the population such as women, the elderly, members of various racial groups, city dwellers, or other groups.

Popular opinion states that the city was named for the Spanish-American War hero, General Adna Chaffee, but in all likelihood it was simply named for the real estate company that owned the land.

His first decision was in all likelihood to allow his troops to sack the city of Moguntiacum.

However, the concentrated number of environments present in the city for interaction increase the likelihood of individuals developing secondary ties, even if they simultaneously maintain distance from tightly-knit communities.

While the high density of networks within the city weakens relations between individuals, it increases the likelihood that at least one individual within a network can provide the primary support found among smaller and more tightly-knit networks.

Along with his eldest son, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find " Z " – his name for an ancient lost city, which he ( in all likelihood, accurately ) believed to be El Dorado, in the uncharted jungles of Brazil.

By 1805, Spain had to help France because of their 1795 alliance, and had lost its navy in the Battle of Trafalgar, but the Spanish prime minister had warned the viceroyalty of the likelihood of a British invasion, and that in such an event the city of Buenos Aires would be on its own.

In some cases, fences will transport the stolen items to a different city to sell them, because this lessens the likelihood that the items will be recognized.