You might peg the Yankees, with their 95 wins in a tough division, as unlikely candidates.
How the latest strip came to be produced is almost as unlikely as the good professor's exploits.
Given the chaos inside Syria a riposte from the Assad regime itself is viewed by experts as unlikely.
Those dots were just not connected, as unlikely as that sounds in retrospect.
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Making any more big deals as unlikely as an end to runway delays.
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Likewise, it is as unlikely that everyone else will behave rationally and choose not to vote, rendering my ballot substantial.
The two major parties are seen as unlikely to receive a majority of the vote even between the two of them.
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As unlikely as that might seem based on the financial situation when a spouse dies, who knows what the future holds?
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And, if that happens, it would cap a comeback that, just a few months ago, seemed as unlikely as that of his boss.
But its consumer protection bill is as unlikely to insulate the average islander from inflation as it is to foster honourable competitive practices.
But that explanation is just as unlikely as the scene itself, because Apple has previously made it clear that it doesn't pay for product placements.
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He may consider, say, chest pain as unlikely to reflect a sinister cause in a given setting, but would be foolhardy to rely on his clinical acumen alone.
He's not as unlikely a gadfly as he might seem.
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As unlikely as this sounds, rivals Time Warner Cable and Comcast are apparently in talks with Sprint and Clearwire over establishing a nationwide WiMAX network.
But for Miss Abdi Nur, the opportunity to make a financial contribution to the country where she sought refuge feels as unlikely now as it did when she arrived five years ago.
Expecting an investor to be rational when they have felt the pain of seeing their savings drop by 20% is as difficult as unlikely as expecting a hive of shaken bees to relax.
While Rumsfeld was forceful and animated in his denunciation of the newspaper article, he did not explicitly rule out any U.S. interest in such a military relationship -- although he described it as unlikely.
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However, she sees that situation as unlikely and rates the company as the top pick among the European drug companies she covers, not only because of Crestor's potential but because of the potential of its cancer fighter, Iressa.
But without the injured Wayne Rooney, the visiting team lacked a cutting edge and with four games of their league season left United must now be viewed as unlikely to end the campaign with their fourth consecutive Premier League title.
However, investors may be worried about patent challenges brought against Lipitor by generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Labs (nasdaq: RBXY - news - people ), even though most analysts view Ranbaxy's chances of launching a generic before 2010 as unlikely.
Even the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a permanent firewall for the Eurozone, is now seen as an unlikely tool to be used this year as the Germans push back.
Of the bearded clerics, Fazlur Rehman has emerged as an unlikely proponent of reconciliation.
But Schoenebaum sees the chance of an approval before late 2005 as being unlikely.
Smith was seen as quite unlikely to get the mayoral nomination and never actually launched a campaign for it.
Since then it has sold over 1m of the things, and established itself as an unlikely leader in the field.
But in debt-ridden and cash strapped Europe, the Catholic Church is emerging as an unlikely treasure trove just ripe for the tax collector.
In an era when markets for many pills are shrinking thanks to patent expirations and safety worries, insulin has emerged as an unlikely growth story.
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It became conceivable that Eriksson would escape and the only fall-out for the Swede would be be another boost to his burgeoning reputation as an unlikely lothario.
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While the US relationship with the Islamic world has suffered from the recent inflammatory anti-Islamic film, values-based finance has emerged as an unlikely, yet significant point of connection.
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