There was little likelihood of any customers walking in at that hour.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

The conclusion upon this record is inescapable that such likelihood was proved as to this acquisition.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

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

Some suggested this dramatic fall was a sign of the general acceptance of the status quo and the likelihood of Labour's majority remaining unassailable.

In all likelihood an official record of the proceedings was made either during the council itself or shortly afterwards.

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.

Though large numbers of Irishmen had willingly joined Irish regiments and divisions of the New British Army at the outbreak of war in 1914, the likelihood of enforced conscription created a backlash – particularly as the Government of Ireland Act 1914 ( as previously recommended in March by the Irish Convention ) was controversially linked with a " dual policy " enactment of the Military Service Bill.

When a person has not been unconscious, failure of carbohydrate to reverse the symptoms in 10 – 15 minutes increases the likelihood that hypoglycemia was not the cause of the symptoms.

Adams predicted the likelihood of the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, and was a key opponent of the Mexican – American War for this reason.

The likelihood principle was first identified by that name in print in 1962

The law of likelihood was identified by that name by I. Hacking ( 1965 ).

The likelihood theory claims that the distribution of the voltage measurements depends on the probability that an instrument not used in this experiment was broken at the time.

The bubonic plague did not strike Europe until 1348, so the likelihood of his contracting and ultimately dying from the bubonic plague was very slim.

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.

They argued that under such conditions, the reduced danger to the climate is obvious, and this held even if cities were targeted, for there was less likelihood of mass fires.

The intent of the truce between the kings was not to allow them to lead the crusade, but rather to improve the likelihood that they would provide assistance.

In other words, only one species of Pteranodon would have been present at any one time, and P. sternbergi ( or Geosternbergia ) in all likelihood was the direct ancestor species of P. longiceps.

For example, in New York State, the defendant's exclusivity of control must be such that the likelihood of injury was, more likely than not, the result of the defendant's negligence.

This population was removed in 1998 because of a likelihood of encounters with humans.

In all likelihood, this was Corinth.

In arguing before the Supreme Court, Gitlow contended that " the statute as construed and applied by the trial court penalize the mere utterance, as such, of ' doctrine ' having no quality of incitement, without regard to the circumstances of its utterance or to the likelihood of the unlawful sequences " While acknowledging " liberty of expression ' is not absolute ,'" he maintained " it may be restrained ' only in instances where its exercise bears a causal relation with some substantive evil, consummated, attempted or likely '" As the statute took no account of the circumstances under which the offending literature was written, it violated the First Amendment.

As Joseph Ferdinand was neither a Bourbon nor a Habsburg, the likelihood of Spain merging with either France or Austria remained low.

The original pronunciation of this word was lost many centuries ago, but the available evidence indicates that it was in all likelihood Yahweh.

Additionally, techniques were developed that have been experimentally proven to enhance the likelihood of achieving this state.

This in turn increases the likelihood that parties will reach their instrumental goals, and enhance the ability to find integrative gains.

To enhance the likelihood of acquiring a breeding pair, purchase several healthy and active juveniles at a young age ( between 6 and 10 ) and grow these specimens until sexual maturity.

Still, it is possible that Clay saw his installation in this office as likely to enhance the likelihood of his someday becoming President.

In his fit of insanity he killed his son, whom he mistook for a stock of mature ivy, and Ambrosia, who was transformed into the grapevine.

Otherwise, for the benefit of the wicked, it was more proper to set a limit for their rage by my silence, rather than any new things written to provoke daily the insanity of the envious.

The first official attempt was the 1840 census which used a single category, " idiocy / insanity ".

In the first through sixth edition of Kraepelin's influential psychiatry textbook, there was a section on moral insanity, which meant then a disorder of the emotions or moral sense without apparent delusions or hallucinations, and which Kraepelin defined as ' lack or weakness of those sentiments which counter the ruthless satisfaction of egotism '.

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

However, in colonial America a delusional Dorothy Talbye was hanged in 1638 for murdering her daughter, as at the time Massachusetts's common law made no distinction between insanity ( or mental illness ) and criminal behavior.

During his trial, nine witnesses testified to the fact that he was insane, and the jury acquitted him, finding him " not guilty by reason of insanity.

The strict M ' Naghten standard for the insanity defense was used until the 1950s and the Durham v. United States case.

The test has much more lenient guideline for the insanity defense, but it addressed the issue of convicting mentally ill defendants, which was allowed under the M ' Naghten Rule.

After the perpetrator of President Reagan's assassination attempt was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984.

The notion of temporary insanity argues that a defendant was insane, but is now sane.

The French king at the time of Joan's birth, Charles VI, suffered bouts of insanity and was often unable to rule.

Percy Redwood created a scandal in New Zealand in 1909 when he was found to be Amy Bock, who had married a woman from Port Molyneaux ; newspapers argued whether it was a sign of insanity or an inherent character flaw.

Historically, insanity was initially seen as grounds for leniency.

In Norman times insanity was not seen as a defence in itself but a special circumstance in which the jury would deliver a guilty verdict and refer the defendant to the King for a pardon

765, the test for insanity was expressed in the following terms

: the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

When the prosecution attempted to adduce evidence that this constituted insanity within the Rules, she changed her plea to guilty but on appeal, the Court ruled that she had been merely denying mens rea rather than raising a defence under the Rules and her conviction was quashed.

It was ruled that the judge should have left the defence of automatism open to him, so his conviction was quashed ( he had pleaded guilty rather than not guilty by reason of insanity ).

As an example of a contrasting interpretation in which defendant lacking knowledge that the act was morally wrong meets the M ' Naghten standards, we have the instructions the judge is required to provide to the jury in cases in New York State where the defendant has raised an insanity plea as a defense: