Likelihood
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According to the same study, which was based on 323 cases of armed and unarmed opposition campaigns between 1900 and 2006, the
likelihood
of democratic transition within five years following a successful armed opposition campaign is only 3%, compared to 51% when campaigns were unarmed.
Indeed, financial stress tests – designed to estimate the
likelihood
of bank failures in the event of bad economic news – are intended to be the equivalent of cardiac stress tests.
The continuous injection of liquidity would imply a greater
likelihood
of renewed asset bubbles in housing, equities, or modern art.
As he put it, systems biology “is a way to make predictions based on integrating existing data, and then statistically deriving a
likelihood
that the predictions may be correct.”
If so, there is a strong
likelihood
that one area in which an Obama administration will fail to gain traction is in advancing the Indo-US relationship in areas outside the strictly economic.
Unskilled workers migrating within the reversible-bond system would likely have to post the bond themselves, possibly with a loan from their home countries, reducing the
likelihood
of fiscal loss.
With the UK’s ruling Conservative Party deeply divided, and the EU seemingly unwilling to act strategically, the
likelihood
of a no-deal cliff-edge scenario appeared high.
But any resort to coercion increases the
likelihood
of military confrontation with the US, Taiwan's protector.
The commodity boom and discovery of mineral resources in fragile states have sown seeds of discord, while the spread of democracy in low-income countries – perhaps surprisingly – increases the statistical
likelihood
of political violence.
Placing conditions on aid packages is controversial, but about 11% of all aid is currently diverted into military spending, which significantly increases the
likelihood
of violence.
Meanwhile, rising temperatures are increasing the
likelihood
of pests and crop diseases, jeopardizing agricultural productivity and subjecting the population to increasingly frequent heatwaves.
The fusion of Iran’s nuclear program (and Iran’s hegemonic ambitions) with the situation in Iraq and with Hezbollah in Lebanon will lead to a “New Middle East” which, in all likelihood, will provoke a major confrontation.
If bankers know in advance that insolvent banks will be closed, and that lobbying to keep them open will not work, they will take fewer risks and the
likelihood
of their activities giving rise to a full-blown banking crisis will be reduced.
Given this, it recommends that, beyond safeguarding media freedom, EU intervention be limited to regulating cross-border issues – such as libel “forum shopping” (when litigants choose the court to which to take their case based on the
likelihood
of a favorable judgment) – and promoting a European public sphere.
Last year, a ProPublica investigation of “recidivism risk models” demonstrated that a widely used methodology to determine sentences for convicted criminals systematically overestimates the
likelihood
that black defendants will commit crimes in the future, and underestimates the risk that white defendants will do so.
Because all the member states provide one another with free credit guarantees, interest rates for government securities can no longer differ in accordance with creditworthiness or
likelihood
of repayment.
The
likelihood
that factional dynamics will wreak havoc on policymaking has, however, diminished due to significant change in the nature of CCP factions during the past decade.
Given the strong
likelihood
that consumers will remain weak for years to come, America’s growth agenda needs to focus on getting more out of the other 30%.
You will, in all likelihood, step back.
They simply predict the
likelihood
that specific findings will be categorized as abusive, and that, consequently, the child’s caregiver at the time will be accused or convicted of abuse, regardless of the accuracy of the diagnosis.
As The Guardian reported in 2011, women soldiers in Iraq faced a higher
likelihood
of being sexually assaulted by a colleague than they did of dying by enemy fire.
Amid massive unmet demand for new climate-compatible infrastructure and for workers with modern skillsets, any semi-competent government should be able to demonstrate the
likelihood
of significant real returns on incremental investment.
Given the
likelihood
of a confused, mistrustful public, it is hard to find any deep rationale for a 4% target.
In the end, there is a high
likelihood
that if such a plan is ultimately adopted, American taxpayers will be left on the hook.
Getting things right – including a new regulatory system that reduces the
likelihood
that such a crisis will recur – is one of the many tasks to be left to the next administration.
And, given the growing
likelihood
of additional trade barriers – as suggested by the US Commerce Department’s recent recommendations of high tariffs on aluminum and steel – the combination of protectionism and ever-widening trade imbalances becomes all the more problematic for a US economy set to become even more dependent on foreign capital.
For example, as much as trade may have contributed to rising inequality, it is only one factor contributing to that broad trend – and in all
likelihood
a relatively minor one, compared to technology.
And there are clear dangers to the cohesion of western Europe from the
likelihood
that the EU will be split into two rival currency zones -- with 6 or 7 countries clustered around Germany and France belonging to EMU, while Britain, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Sweden and other economies remain outside.
Others strain to produce complicated models, according to which investors might have been able to foresee the Depression, or ponder the
likelihood
of protectionist reactions in other countries to the American tariff act, though the US legislation had not yet even been finalized.
Unless we can recover a world in which business profits actually serve a purpose, the
likelihood
of more economic, political, and social shocks will remain intolerably high.
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