The relationship between likelihood of winning the Cup and actually winning it becomes more clear when the same overall table is sorted to identify the teams with the highest likelihood of winning the Cup during each of the last nine seasons.
Throughout the presidential campaign, Moussavi labored hard to portray his proposals on social policy and foreign affairs as an extension of the Islamic system in order to disarm conservative critics, even denying that he is a mainstream reformist candidate in the hope of winning the support of reformers and moderate conservatives.
Though Bryan got tons of love before the ACMs because of his new role as co-host with Shelton, the idea of winning entertainer of the year was far from his mind as he prepared to replace Reba McEntire on the show.
Shedding light on the discomfort felt even by the majority, the court ordered the U.S. government to pay the legal costs of the plaintiffs, something virtually unheard of when a litigant is on the winning end of a case.
That explains the significance of the red ball: it makes the odds of winning the pot less likely since you have to match all of the white balls (generally from 1 to 50) plus choose the correct red ball (out of a different set of balls, generally 1 to 35).
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Secondly, the first-past-the-post system exaggerates the advantage of the winning party, particularly at the expense of third parties.
In an era when African-Americans were still barred from participating in most mainstream sports (it would be more than 60 years before Jackie Robinson made his ground-breaking debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers), African-American jockeys went on to dominate the early years of the Derby, winning 15 of the first 28 races.
And, of course, the way the place shook when Ray Knight stomped on home plate with the winning run of the sixth game of the 1986 World Series, just moments after all seemed to be lost.
In the hopes of winning over the likes of Sahfe, then-prime minister Ehud Barak and then-foreign minister and public security minister Shlomo Ben-Ami rejected the Vatican's objections.
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Barrett- Jackson Auction Co. did not reveal the name of the winning bidder, but Champagne came out of the Bat closet in an interview with Speed TV.
While the show ended with the "Modern Family" cast onstage for the best comedy award, the sitcom also monopolized the first half-hour of the show, winning all of the first four Emmys handed out.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has confirmed the winning design of the fourth form factor of the SIM card is the design submitted by Apple for the Nano-SIM.
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In order to increase the chances of winning and minimize the amount of time needed to reach this goal, the U.S. is relying on advances in nanotechnology.
This provides for a much easier visualization of the impact each factor has on match outcome, but one cannot simply add up the likelihood of winning from each of the three factors to get the overall likelihood of moving on to the next round.
In baseball circles, that's an accomplishment most notably associated with Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane, the subject of the book Moneyball, for the string of winning clubs he put together earlier in the decade on budgets that resembled the petty cash drawers of the Yankees or Red Sox.
It would be one of the greatest stories of winning against the odds, but, with the firm weight of a Japanese crowd cheering them on, Gamba Osaka have a real chance of making football history.
The chances of a seed sprouting into a worthwhile plant are the same as those of winning the lottery, says Mr. Klug of Pink House Blooms.
Although there are likely several reasons for this, and the sampling size might not qualify this as a statistically significant result, I would offer that if you approach a game with the idea of how to work around the rules of the game in increase your odds of winning while your opponents are simply following the rules, your chances of winning will dramatically improve.
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Ultimately it will be those visions, applications, the judging of the applications, and, most importantly, the execution of the winning visions by the school districts themselves that have the potential to set the country on a path toward transforming the education system into a student-centric one and bolstering the achievement of every child.
No team has gone undefeated since its introduction to college basketball in the 1987 season, and of the 10 longest winning streaks of all time, none are from the last 20 years.
UKIP's Ian Smith became his party's first member of the council, winning one of the two seats in the Ferndown electoral division.
That, of course, was played at Madison Square Garden, continuing the pattern of the home team winning each of the first six games of the series.
Brawn dominated the start of the season, with Button winning six of the first seven races, and they found themselves caught in a controversy over the design of their car's rear diffuser, which several rivals said contravened the rules.
Many can rattle off the names of the Argentina winning team in 1978 or the great Brazil team of 1982 but the truth of the matter is that before these tournaments we, the soccer watching public (and journalists for that matter), knew very little about these players who were to become stars.
Each player will be battling for their guild to reach the end of the maze first, players of the winning guild will receive a special achievement.
There are the scandals that have beset programs in the desperate pursuit of winning the University of Southern California, Ohio State University, University of Miami and Penn State University among others.
Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart said the campaign is "working hard to get delegates in each of the early states, " but her advisers have made clear from the outset of the campaign that her hopes of winning the nomination rest on winning Iowa.
They see sport as merely games that are played with the object of winning, which is not the goal of art.
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Hamilton's teammate Jenson Button will start from fourth after he enjoyed a much improved qualifying performance, having struggled for much of the season after winning the opening race of the season.
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