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Many people, including President John F. Kennedy, believed in the 1960’s that there would be dozens of countries with nuclear weapons by now, and that their use would be highly probable.
The subsequent United Nations investigation indicated that there was strong evidence that the explosion was caused by Hezbollah operatives, with probable support from the Syrian secret service.
It’s probable that by March there will be an agreement on reducing the bilateral trade deficit and the import decisions that China will make to see it through.
The cause of those low interest rates is debated; but one probable factor is the reduced cost of business investment in hardware and software-based “machines.”
So risk managers in banks applied the techniques of probability analysis to “value at risk” calculations, without asking whether samples of recent events really carried strong inferences for the probable distribution of future events.
It is clear that an overwhelming majority of Germans do not support the AfD, whose fortunes could soon fade, owing to a probable split in its leadership.
It is now highly probable that the central government will invoke Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, which allows it to take direct control of Catalonia, a step that would undoubtedly provoke more civil unrest throughout the region.
While it is probable that Ebola will surface in India in the near future, an adequate response is possible, as Nigeria has shown.
Or, as Karl Popper put it, truth is never definitive and error is always probable.
In a country where law is the man in power, this remains probable.
But it seems probable that the argument over majority voting rules is really a stalking horse for deeper differences about the future of the EU.
It is of course possible or even probable that such assurances would not lead to any meaningful diminution in Chinese support for North Korea.
The time has come for governments and international organizations to call the attack on MH17 a probable war crime.
But neither of those outcomes is probable in the short term.
That is why, when “you take in a greater variety of parties and interests,” he wrote, “you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.”
Over the next 14 months, new governments will be elected in eight Latin American countries, starting with a probable victory for the center-left Michelle Bachelet in Chile’s presidential election.
New eras of rising investment, productivity, and living standards are not just possible; they are probable, recurring with increasing frequency.
With no other country or group of countries anywhere close to being in a position to carry the baton, the emergence of what the political scientist Ian Bremmer has called a “G-Zero era” becomes a lot more probable.
If evidence emerges that Korea has the means to deliver nuclear weapons, then it seems probable that Japan will follow suit and develop its own nuclear capacity, riling South Korea and China.
But economics and history suggest that today’s price should be viewed as a probable ceiling for a much lower trading range, which may stretch all the way down toward $20.
He might then fire a raft of officials, treat immigrants still more harshly, and try to shut down Mueller’s investigation of his campaign’s possible collusion with the Kremlin and Trump’s probable obstruction of justice.
Even if the prospect or threat of the use of force among states has become less probable, it will retain a high impact, and it is just such situations that lead rational actors to purchase expensive insurance.
The collapse of the "new economy" is an example, but in a curious way also the probable attack on Iraq will also be arrived at in such a way.
Among the countries from where immigration to the EU is probable, Turkey has the best prospects for successful adaptation.
Another scenario – almost as probable as a Labour-led coalition – is a weak and unstable Conservative government.
But the more probable market reaction will be a collective shrug of the shoulders, accepting permanent monetization as the only possible safe way to alleviate an otherwise intractable debt burden.
In 1954, a junta that regarded itself as being above the state destroyed weak democratic order; that outcome is highly probable now as well.
Unfortunately, global cacophony seems more probable.
Relatively egalitarian Belgium was battered with very high reported death rates, owing partly to the authorities’ decision to report probable as well as confirmed COVID-19 deaths.
Scientists tell us that keeping different animals in close, prolonged proximity with one another and with people creates an unhealthy environment that is the probable source of the mutation that enabled COVID-19 to infect humans.
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