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Likely in sentence

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In fact, it's very likely that this muscular person will end up like this one here, racked with tuberculosis and mercury poisoning in just a few years.
He's more likely to do worse in school, have worse job prospects and experience social isolation.
If you sense that I am being authentic, you are much more likely to trust me.
If you sense that I have real rigor in my logic, you are far more likely to trust me.
And if you believe that my empathy is directed towards you, you are far more likely to trust me.
So here's the prescription: identify where, when and to whom you are likely to offer your distraction.
That should trace pretty perfectly to when, where and to whom you are likely to withhold your empathy.
But with that privilege comes a very sincere temptation to hold back who we are, and if we hold back who we are, we're less likely to be trusted.
And if we're less likely to be trusted, we're less likely to be given stretch assignments.
And without those stretch assignments, we're less likely to get promoted, and so on and so on until we are super depressed by the demographic tendencies of our senior leadership.
You've actually likely seen something very similar at play if you've ever noticed frost form on the ground on a clear night, even when the air temperature is well above freezing.
The victim who receives bystander CPR is more than twice as likely to survive.
What this shows is a nation-by-nation breakdown of the likely level of food waste in each country in the world.
So I took the food supply of every single country and I compared it to what was actually likely to be being consumed in each country.
That black line in the middle of that table is the likely level of consumption with an allowance for certain levels of inevitable waste.
Any dot above that line, and you'll quickly notice that that includes most countries in the world, represents unnecessary surplus, and is likely to reflect levels of waste in each country.
So women are much more likely to do this kind of thing than men.
So when you feel powerful, you're more likely to do this, but it's also possible that when you pretend to be powerful, you are more likely to actually feel powerful.
I actually came across this fascinating study by the Pew Center this week that revealed that an active Facebook user is three times as likely as a non-Internet user to believe that most people are trustworthy.
And they say in their discussion that this is very likely because freaks get published.
So in 1980, some researchers did a study on a drug called lorcainide, and this was an anti-arrhythmic drug, a drug that suppresses abnormal heart rhythms, and the idea was, after people have had a heart attack, they're quite likely to have abnormal heart rhythms, so if we give them a drug that suppresses abnormal heart rhythms, this will increase the chances of them surviving.
About half of all trials, on average, go missing in action, and we know that positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings.
We now think there are likely to be just over 20 thousand genes in the human genome.
So it's likely that the line, in terms of learning, is pretty flat.
It seems to indicate that indeed we have found some pigments, and since we know for sure that no other artist has painted on that wall before Vasari came in about 60 years later, well, those pigments are therefore firmly related to mural painting and most likely to Leonardo.
When we were first investigating the role of disgust in moral judgment, one of the things we became interested in was whether or not these sorts of appeals are more likely to work in individuals who are more easily disgusted.
The way that we measured this was by a scale that was constructed by some other psychologists that simply asked people across a wide variety of situations how likely they are to feel disgust.
As you can see, people who are on the very conservative side of answering the political orientation scale are also much more likely to report that they're easily disgusted.
Interestingly, what they also showed in a finding that we kept getting in our previous studies as well was that one of the strongest influences here is that individuals who are very disgust-sensitive not only are more likely to report being politically conservative, but they're also very much more opposed to gay marriage and homosexuality and pretty much a lot of the socio-moral issues in the sexual domain.
And as it turns out, the older you get, the less likely you are to divorce.
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