Likelihood
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The sad
likelihood
is that, given the power of the obstructionists under Naif, a decisive and energetic king is unlikely to emerge.
But the basic point remains: Predominantly English Brexiteers have given no serious thought to the Irish question, nor even to the
likelihood
that crashing out of the EU might take the UK back to the dark ages.
The anti-secession law’s vague language and attempt at softened wording – perhaps geared toward mollifying foreign critics – paradoxically increases rather than decreases the
likelihood
that China and the United States could be unwittingly and unwillingly drawn into an avoidable military conflict.
While outright military conflict is still considered unlikely, the combination of China’s vague “red lines” and non-specific threats will certainly raise the
likelihood
of miscalculation and misinterpretation on both sides.
South Asia has the world’s highest rates of malnutrition and the largest number of undernourished children, who have higher mortality rates, lower cognitive performance, and a greater
likelihood
of dropping out of school.
Instead, continuing conflict has complicated risk assessments and curtailed Kyiv’s access to external finance, raising the
likelihood
of a disruptive debt default.
Last August, US President Barack Obama warned Syria’s government that any move toward chemical-weapon deployment would cross a “red line,” giving the conflict a broader strategic dimension and, in turn, increasing the
likelihood
that the United States would intervene.
A major peacekeeping operation in Darfur would likely produce a similar situation: protracted uncertainties regarding the region’s future political status, impeded socioeconomic development, persistently diverging expectations among the conflicting parties, unresolved tensions resulting from non-fulfillment of these expectations, and the
likelihood
of renewed violence should the foreign intervention force withdraw.
If a judicial bankruptcy process could work, the thinking goes, it would minimize the
likelihood
of taxpayer-financed bailouts and disruption of financial markets and the real economy.
While the
likelihood
of a Trump presidency seems to be declining by the day, it would be premature – and, indeed, highly risky – to dismiss it altogether.
But if there is some
likelihood
that I will be voted out of office and that the opposition will take over, such institutions will protect me from others’ abuses tomorrow as much as they protect others from my abuses today.
The
likelihood
of such an outcome is hard to predict.
The
likelihood
is that early next year most of the European Union’s member nations will recognize the Albanian-majority enclave on Serbia’s southern edge as an independent state.
Then there are rising tensions over plans by the United States to based a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as the growing
likelihood
that further NATO enlargement will include Georgia, the increasingly prosperous neighbor with which Russia has fractious relations.
And they complicate long-overdue monetary-policy normalization, while increasing the
likelihood
of global financial instability.
In all
likelihood
the Americans would "have done an Iraq on Pakistan," as one highly placed member of the foreign ministry conceded to me in the week after September 11 th .
Access to secondary schools can also boost enrollment in primary schools, reducing the
likelihood
that parents will keep their children at home to work or, as is often the case with girls, to help with domestic chores.
In other areas of public policy, such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation, inflation, or vaccination, an “insurance” principle seems to prevail: if there is a sufficient
likelihood
of significant damage, we take some measured anticipatory action.
Estimates of the
likelihood
of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s collapse, or the likely time of collapse, have varied for three decades.
In my reading of the latest research, the
likelihood
of collapse in this century is small – but uncertain.
Instead, the EU, the ECB, and Ireland have reached a Faustian bargain that keeps Ireland liquid (i.e., it gets euros), but does nothing to halt the growing
likelihood
of insolvency (i.e., its increasing inability to pay back those euros in the future).
By broadening the geographical and socioeconomic talent base and identifying good candidates sooner, we could increase the
likelihood
that students will return to practice in their local communities.
Given the lasting stalemate in bilateral negotiations with Israel, a Palestinian focus on a non-member state bid at the UN General Assembly might very well increase the
likelihood
of jump-starting the process.
But a nuanced Palestinian resolution that moves beyond a zero-sum mindset and embraces legitimate Israeli concerns is possible, and could very well increase the
likelihood
of a return to constructive negotiations.
While invoking the specter of cyber attacks may help to mobilize domestic support for security legislation, it may also increase the
likelihood
of a major cyber conflict.
In either of the most probable scenarios, continuity or prudent change, or even if the “outsider” candidate wins, Chile will in all
likelihood
remain a beacon of democratic stability, economic dynamism, and international engagement in a region too often characterized by political and economic turbulence.
The extra $2 billion that it will have to pay in ten years is the compensation that investors demand for the
likelihood
of default, in excess of the already hefty coupon.
Indeed, sectarian fault lines, together with the security forces’ complete fealty to the monarchy, seriously diminish the
likelihood
of peaceful regime change.
As if that were not enough, farmers are facing increasingly volatile climate conditions that increase the
likelihood
that their crops will fail.
In all likelihood, the law would also prevent ordinary citizens from obtaining information about the state security apparatus that is supposedly protecting them.
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