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1. " Patterns of community changes have arisen from indirect species interactions.--It is unlikely that the significant changes observed in the abundances of 46 invertebrate species all reflect direct responses to any single variable."

Source:   Sagarin, Raphael D.,Barry, James P.,Gilman, Sarah E.,Baxter, Charles H. "CLIMATE-RELATED CHANGE IN AN INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY OVER SHORT AND LONG TIME SCALES" Ecological Monographs 69.4 Nov. 1 1999: 465 Google This

2. " After 14 years of avid anticipation, it is unlikely that any tome would have been able to meet the expectations that have arisen."

Source:   Rust, Michael. "The High Price of Unorthodoxy" Insight on the News 15.40 Nov. 1 1999: 20 Google This

3. " It is unlikely this is the first time the issue has arisen."

Source:   BEYEA, SUZANNE C.,NICOLL, LESLIE H. "Decision analysis--putting it all together" AORN Journal 71.3 Mar. 1 2000: 678 Google This

4. " That is, it is unlikely (less than 5 times in 100) that the significant pairs of canonical variates were observed by chance alone."

Source:   MA, XIN,BATESON, DAVID J. "A Multivariate Analysis of the Relationship Between Attitude Toward Science and Attitude Toward the Environment" Journal of Environmental Education 31.1 Sept. 22 1999: 27 Google This

5. " Because several measures of insulin sensitivity improved in response to acarbose, our findings are unlikely to be caused by chance alone."

Source:  MENEILLY, GRAYDON S.,RYAN, EDMOND A.,RADZIUK, JERRY,LAU, DAVID C.W.,YALE, JEAN-FRANCOIS,MORAIS, JOSE,CHIASSON, JEAN-LOUIS,RABASA-LHORET, REMI,MAHEUX, PIERRE,TESSIER, DANIEL,WOLEVER, THOMAS,JOSSE, ROBERT G.,ELAHI, DARIUSH. "Effect of Acarbose on Insulin Sensitivity in Elderly Patients With Diabetes" Diabetes Care 23.8 Aug. 1 2000: 1162

6. " Leonardo's masterpiece, it is assumed, supports Steinberg's conclusions because the structures he identifies, such as the coordination of Thomas's upward-turned finger with Christ's gesture toward the bread, are too highly organized to have arisen by chance."

Source:   Koerner, Joseph Leo. "Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper" Art Bulletin 86.4 Dec. 1 2004: 777-784 Google This

7. " The second visit comprised a detailed home assessment, collection of air and dust samples, and a chance to answer any questions that may have arisen in the interim."

Source:   Persky, Victoria,Coover, Lenore,Hernandez, Eva,Contreras, Alicia,Slezak, Julie,Piorkowski, Julie,Curtis, Luke,Turyk, Mary,Ramakrishnan, Viswanathan,Scheff, Peter. "Chicago Community-Based Asthma Intervention Trial" Chest 116.4 Oct. 1 1999: 216 Google This

8. "... where we were in our attempts to understand the origin of the second law'.(39) Could the special initial geometry have arisen sheerly by chance in the absence of a cosmic singularity?"

Source:   Craig, William Lane. "A swift and simple refutation of the Kalam cosmological argument?" Religious Studies 35.1 Mar. 1 1999: 57-58 Google This

9. " The trilobite eye, for example, is too complex and exquisitely engineered to have arisen by chance, and so its existence demands an explanation."

Source:   McShea, Daniel W. "Adaptive glory" American Scientist 91.6 Nov. 1 2003: 567-570 Google This

10. " A list of the first 100 prime numbers is an example of CSI because it contains structure too complicated to have arisen by chance."

Source:   Johnson, Norman A. "Design Flaw" American Scientist 88.3 May 1 2000: 274 Google This

11. " This difference may have arisen by chance, especially since probing took place after question asking, and the effect was not seen in relation to the other task."

Source:   Williamson, Janis,Ranyard, Rob,Cuthbert, Lisa. "A conversation-based process tracing method for use with naturalistic decisions: An evaluation study" British Journal of Psychology 91.2 May 1 2000: 203 Google This

12. " In addition, and especially in the Russian context of extensive concessional pricing of shares during privatization (Bim et al., 1994), the initial configurations of ownership and control are most unlikely to represent equilibrium outcomes."

Source:   Jones, Derek C. "The economic effects of privatization: evidence from a Russian panel" Comparative Economic Studies v40.n2 June 22 1998: 75-103 Google This

13. " And just suppose, for the sake of the analogy, that there are independent reasons for thinking that, if our airspace is infested with alien craft, then they are unlikely to assume both configurations."

Source:   Fales, Evan. "Can science explain mysticism?" Religious Studies 35.2 June 1 1999: 213-214 Google This

14. " If we allow ourselves to be restricted by the foci of these reality-configuring textual constructions by judging new metaphors on the extent to which they correspond with the old metaphors, then, indeed, new and liberating thinking on organizations is unlikely to occur."

Source:   Letiche, Hugo,Uden, Jacco van. "Answers to a Discussion Note: On the 'Metaphor of the Metaphor'" Organization Studies 19.6 Feb. 5 1999: 1029 Google This

15. " Human judgment alone is unable to assess the best resource configuration from among a complex and mentally innumerable series of choices."

Source:   Branas, Charles C.,MacKenzie, Ellen J.,ReVelle, Charles S. "A Trauma Resource Allocation Model for Ambulances and Hospitals" Health Services Research 35.2 June 1 2000: 489

16. " The Navigator browser alone is a svelte 5.5MB, and Netscape claims the "typical" configuration is 8.5MB, which is far less than IE. You don't have to download IE 5, of course; it comes with Windows."

Source:   HOGAN, MIKE. "Go To Your Corners!" Entrepreneur 28.7 July 1 2000: 58 Google This

17. " Asymptotic properties have been developed that allow for the calculation of a z score to determine the probability that particular observed configurations would have occurred by chance."

Source:   SCHLESINGER, MARK,LAU, RICHARD R. "The Meaning and Measure of Policy Metaphors" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 611 Google This

18. "... the "Lake" pas de deux, Vyacheslav Mesropov in `Riba,' and Olga Volobueyva and Hesen Weiren in the concluding "Twin Cities." Choo-San Goh's Configurations also offered the audience a chance to appreciate the full measure of this thirty-strong company. "

Source:   OSTLERE, HILARY. "COLORADO BALLET" Dance Magazine 73.1 Jan. 1 1999: 119-120 Google This

19. " Craig Fisher continued, in this exhibition, to work in series, to investigate chance configurations and to make paintings that,in theory at least; make themselves."

Source:   Wei, Lilly. "Craig Fisher at Florence Lynch" Art in America 88.9 Sept. 1 2000: 150 Google This

20. " However, when averaging over the two cases where each one has a chance to make the offer, both parties are worse off than the interim fair allocation, because they have to pay for legal services for all signal configuration."

Source:   GONG, JIONG,MCAFEE, R. PRESTON. "PRETRIAL NEGOTIATION, LITIGATION, AND PROCEDURAL RULES" Economic Inquiry 38.2 Apr. 1 2000: 218 Google This

21. "... failing to collect converging evidence, selecting an answer that was unlikely to produce the observed pattern of data, and selecting an answer that was highly unlikely based on prior probabilities alone."

Source:   Guerlain, Stephanie A.,Smith, Philip J.,Obradovich, Jodi Heinz,Rudmann, Sally,Strohm, Patricia,Smith, Jack W.,Svirbely, John,Sachs, Larry. "Interactive critiquing as a form of decision support: an empirical evaluation" Human Factors 41.1 Mar. 1 1999: 72-73 Google This

22. " Given the very nature of the sheltered workshop, co-workers were all individuals who had a disability; thus, the chances for developing peer networks involving persons other than those with disabilities was unlikely."

Source:   Kiernan, William. "Where We Are Now: Perspectives on Employment of Persons with Mental Retardation" Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 15.2 June 22 2000: 90 Google This

23. "... for being a "tool of oil interests." It is highly unlikely that alternative fuels have a chance for further development if Bush--who, according to Joby Warrick in the April 4 Washington Post, "supports oil exploration in the Arctic..."

Source:   Rosentreter, Richard. "Oil, Profits, and the Question of Alternative Energy" Humanist 60.5 Sept. 1 2000: 8 Google This

24. " Saddam Hussein, never one to leave matters to chance where his own security is concerned, concentrated on eliminating all those whom he perceived as offering a threat to his position, however remote and unlikely."

Source:   Ramsay, Allan. "SADDAM -- 'FATHER OF VICTORIES?'" Contemporary Review 277.1615 Aug. 1 2000: 65 Google This

25. " With respect to criterion 1, the pattern is unlikely to be due to chance."

Source:   SIMBERLOFF, DANIEL,DAYAN, TAMAR,JONES, CARL,OGURA, GO. "CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT AND RELEASE IN THE SMALL INDIAN MONGOOSE, HERPESTES JAVANICUS" Ecology 81.8 Aug. 1 2000: 2086 Google This

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