The name of Hera, the queen of the gods, admits a variety of mutually exclusive etymologies ; one possibility is to connect it with hōra ( ὥρα ), season, and to interpret it as ripe for marriage.

Most likely he spent it in the Hebrides ( possibly sheltered by Christina of Garmoran ) although Ireland is a serious possibility, and Orkney ( under Norwegian rule at the time ) or Norway proper ( where his sister was queen dowager ) although unlikely are not impossible.

Another possibility is 4. Qc2 0-0 5. e4, although this is somewhat inconsistent with 4. Qc2 as Black might be able to double White's c-pawns at some point ( the queen must guard e4 ), something 4. Qc2 was supposed to prevent.

There could be no continuity of production and no possibility of selective breeding, since each bee colony was destroyed at harvest time, along with its precious queen.

If the adverse spades are divided 2-1, there are 12 certain tricks ( 6 spade tricks, 2 hearts, 1 diamond, 3 clubs ) and the possibility of a 13th by correctly guessing the two-way finesse ( or dropping the queen ) in hearts.

Local archaeologist Peter Osborn has suggested that there is a strong possibility that the battle between ancient Briton warrior queen Boadicea and the Romans took place in or around the area now called Birmingham sometime during 61 CE.

Seeing a high possibility of bloodshed, Jang Bahadur, Fateh Jang and Abhiman Singh Rana Magar decided that Jang Bahadur and Fateh Jang should try to calm the queen, and Abhiman Singh Rana Magar, who had disobeyed queen's orders would stay behind.

However, there is always the possibility that chance will make demands the dancers find impossible to execute.

There is still the remote possibility of planetoid collision.

This is done for simplicity of commands and to bring the hidden redundancy up to where misunderstanding has almost zero possibility.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

Had U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

The possibility, as he asserted, that the Russians may get ahead of us or come closer to us because of their tests does not supply the needed ethical premise -- unless, of course, we have unwittingly become so brutalized that nuclear superiority is now taken as a moral demand.

The possibility of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys.

This possibility is anything but reassuring.

There is a possibility that battery-powered radios with built-in radiation meters may become available.

It is not a medieval mental quirk or an attitude `` unnourished by sense '' to believe that husbands and wives should not be subjected to such a risk, or that such a possibility should not be permitted to endanger the confidentiality of the marriage relationship.

This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.

There is, then, the possibility that this Af bond is symmetric, although Douglass was unable to determine its symmetry from his x-ray data.

The possibility that the absence or presence of these shunts is species-dependent is therefore inferred.

This contradicts the preceding observations, and so, under the assumption of this paper, we must reject the possibility that **zg is a Af curve on a quadric surface.

There is also the possibility, among higher religions, of experiencing consistent meaning in life and enjoying guidance and expansiveness.

In theory, compulsive behavior is a way of diminishing anxiety, and one might expect a negative association except for the possibility that for many children the obsessive-compulsive defenses are not sufficient to quell the amount of anxiety they suffer.

A further possibility is suggested by the example of the G. I. bills and also by some recent trends in attitudes toward improving college education: that is to provide financial assistance to individuals for vocational training when local facilities are inadequate.

More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.

On the other hand, " Her grades are so good that she's either very bright or studies hard " allows for the possibility that the person is both bright and works hard.

At first, the technique of cutting in to a closer shot of an actor in a scene made no contribution to the increase in cutting rate, because it was still very rarely done, despite having been established as a possibility in the previous period.

Another possibility is that more than one of these theories is correct, since writers very often base their characters on a composite of several people ( real or equally fictitious ) of whom they have knowledge.

Enodia's very name (" In-the-Road ") suggests that she watched over entrances, for it expresses both the possibility that she stood on the main road into a city, keeping an eye on all who entered, and in the road in front of private houses, protecting their inhabitants.

In addition, there are a number of probabilistic algorithms that can test primality very quickly in practice if one is willing to accept the vanishingly small possibility of error.

Though today many historians feel the possibility of France and Italy falling to the communists was remote, it was regarded as a very real possibility by American policy makers at the time.

Due to the size of Jupiter's magnetosphere there is a possibility of very weak and very brief seasonal head-tail interaction between Earth's and Jupiter's magnetospheres.

But this account seemed to threaten the very possibility of science as an objective endeavor and made Kant, himself a scientist, very uneasy.

He notes, " The possibility of a very clever fake cannot be ruled out on the evidence of the film " but also writes that his analysis hinges largely on the question of filming speed.

Gregory IX and Frederick came to a truce, but when Frederick defeated the Lombard League in 1239, the possibility that he might dominate all of Italy, surrounding the Papal States, became a very real threat.

" What is important is not so much whether Deckard is a replicant or not, but that very possibility and uncertainty further blurs the line between humans and replicants.

Tesla realized he gained, by the use of very high frequencies, many advantages in his experiments, such as the possibility of working with one lead and the possibility of doing away with the leading-in wire.

The possibility remained that, with respect to our actual configuration of knowledge, which is very different from Good's example, Nicod's criterion might still be true and so we could still reach the paradoxical conclusion.

The correlation between damage to certain specific brain areas ( usually in the left hemisphere ) and the development of specific types of aphasia makes it possible to deduce ( albeit very roughly ) the location of a suspected brain lesion based only on the presence ( and severity ) of a certain type of aphasia, though this is complicated by the possibility that a patient may have damage to a number of brain areas and may exhibit symptoms of more than one type of aphasia.

After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea ; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

However the possibility of becoming pregnant has usually been very low ( but not zero ) for a number of years before this point is reached.

However if the DNA evidence is the sole evidence against the accused and the accused was picked out of a large database of DNA profiles, the jurors should consider the very likely possibility that the match is just a coincidence and the accused is innocent.

Additionally, the deployment of highly accurate missiles on ultra-quiet submarines allows an attacker to sneak up close to the enemy coast and launch a missile on a depressed trajectory – a very close range attack which will hit its target in a matter of minutes, thus opening the possibility of a decapitation strike.