But he realized soon enough that the board was likelier to give Chizen's job to Narayen.
Foreigners who study in Britain are likelier to create wealth in the country later on.
Instead, with no real deadline, a long, slow, thickening of the treacle looks a likelier outcome.
And has this week made the government any likelier to win an eventual referendum?
By and large, independent central banks are likelier than politicians to act early against inflation.
Higher wages are by and large likelier to cost jobs than to create them.
They were much likelier than their non-communicating peers to converge on the greenest patches.
The expulsion of Mr Hussein, which looks likelier than not, could turn the oil market upside down.
Both of the recent fusses look likelier to expose hypocrisies than cause schisms, but you never know.
If either one is able to pull it off, then Real seems the likelier candidate to do it.
Even without guarantees, public-sector banks will remain less profit-oriented, and thus likelier to accept low margins, than private-sector competitors.
Furthermore, homeowners were much several times likelier to wish they had borrowed less against their home rather than more.
On the Palestinian issue, it is a shade likelier that Mr Netanyahu will edge his government towards proper negotiations.
They are, for instance, likelier to believe in activist government and stronger regulation.
In general, home-owners are about three times likelier to vote Republican than house-renters.
The likelier benefactors in the Mediterranean diet, he says, are the nuts, fish and vegetables that replace fries and burgers.
But Kasich is likelier to grace the bottom half of the ticket before he has a shot at the top.
That increase, at least in cell cultures, made it likelier that a developing precursor cell would turn into a nerve cell.
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In other words, if America ever abandons the death penalty, it is likelier to be with a whimper than a bang.
Still, his opponent, Mitchel McLaughlin, is a second-rank republican figure, so Mr Durkan looks likelier to survive than does Mr Trimble.
Indeed, thirty per cent of the new models were likelier to fail.
Effective pressure to end grouse-shooting is likelier to come from the people who live in moorland areas than from anti-shooting city folk.
Telephone interviewing used to be frowned upon by polling firms because Tory voters were likelier to have a phone than Labour voters.
But this makes it even likelier that they will one day return.
It seems likelier that, by the time that joint military council has got itself organised, they will have melted into the jungle.
The more money that mining firms spend buying one another, rather than exploring for and developing new mines, the likelier that is.
Worse, firms that default are likelier to end up in full liquidation.
Ironically, the worse its view of Brazil's prospects, the likelier that is.
Compromise is likelier on the choice of the two deputy prime ministers.
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