Likelihood
in example sentence
After World War II, many countries with parliamentary systems reduced the
likelihood
of such instability by adopting the so-called “constructive vote of no confidence.”
More example sentences with word likelihood
He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of
likelihood
as his non-existence.
You would strictly have to be agnostic about whether there is a teapot in orbit about Mars, but that doesn't mean you treat the
likelihood
of its existence as on all fours with its non-existence.
This silence carries profound consequences for the
likelihood
that nonviolence can grow, or even survive, in Palestine.
And what we looked at was whether the number of fund offerings available in a retirement savings plan, the 401(k) plan, does that affect people's
likelihood
to save more for tomorrow.
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