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It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult.
Cynthia Kenyon
Changes
Worm
Unlikely
Only
Divide
Dividing
Adult
Most
Because
Becomes
Cells
Stop
Influencing
Shorten
Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.
Daniel Radcliffe
Somebody
Desperately
Unlikely
Slim
Something
Part
Identify
Because
Fit
Short
Wants
I'm a realist - yes, I know: darn, I'm unlikely to have a love scene with Chris Hemsworth anytime soon, if ever. But I also believe that persistence and hard work pays off.
Danielle Macdonald
Work
Love
Hard Work
Persistence
Believe
Unlikely
Darn
Scene
Soon
Know
Also
Off
Yes
Love Scene
Anytime
Realist
Hard
Pays
Chris
Ever
Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.
David Mackay
Pilot
Space
Long
Unlikely
Qualification
Got
Test
Test Pilot
After
Realised
Manned
Flight
Programme
In the World Cup finals, you're unlikely to meet a continental rival. In Copa America, you know they are just around the corner and that you will have to beat them to win the competition.
Diego Forlan
You
World
Competition
Win
Will
Corner
Meet
Unlikely
Finals
Beat
Rival
Know
Around
Continental
Cup
America
Just
Them
World Cup
For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at all on the stage or in film', so I feel I have to take all the opportunities I can.
Dominic Cooper
Work
You
Training
School
Opportunities
Three
Stage
Unlikely
Take
Feel
Years
Very
Film
Actor
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Earl Warren
Age
Inferiority
Feeling
Undone
Community
Others
Minds
Unlikely
Way
Solely
Status
Similar
Qualifications
Because
Affect
Hearts
May
Children
Race
Separate
Ever
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono
Car
First
Unlikely
Faults
Perfect
Removing
Motor
Motor Car
May
Produce
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
Eric Alterman
Political
Amazing
Holding
Beneath
Unlikely
Obama
Feet
Opponents
Political Career
His
Politically
Who
Appears
Streak
Career
We're definitely hoping 'Travelers' attracts more than just solely the sci-fi audience, too. There are so many elements here. I think this will be a show that women like, because there's a lot of unlikely romance in it between people who were in love 300 years from now, but they're in different bodies.
Eric McCormack
Love
Women
People
Will
Think
Too
Unlikely
Solely
Definitely
Hoping
More
Between
Like
Attracts
Sci-Fi
Because
Audience
Were
Years
Lot
Than
Just
Romance
Different
Bodies
Show
Who
Many
Travelers
Elements
Now
Here
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'
Evgeny Morozov
Internet
Tyranny
Country
Revolution
Alexander
President
Unlikely
Once
Since
Condoleezza
Condoleezza Rice
Authoritarian
Controlled
Place
Rice
Europe
Homeland
Last
Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.
Francis Crick
Related
Complete
Unlikely
Synthesis
System
Components
Moreover
Thus
Most
Protein
Genuine
Very
Closely
Same
Requires
Inhibited
Needed
Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.
Frank Tipler
Travel
Natural
People
Space
Will
Unlikely
Exceedingly
Environment
Advantage
Over
Human
Engage
Beings
Ever
Present-Day
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
Garrison Keillor
Work
Me
Ignorance
Own
Other
Unlikely
Though
Outcome
Seemed
My Own
Writer
Writers
Driver
Since
Talent
Well-Read
Boy
Am
Real
Discouragement
Persevered
Than
Wanted
Bus
Bus Driver
Average
Less
Found
Eventually
Keeps
Row
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
George Gaylord Simpson
Complete
Unlikely
Recognize
Case
Almost
Almost All
Discovery
Any
Transition
It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.
Gordon Moore
Today
School
Will
Degree
Three
Unlikely
Extremely
One Area
Out
Stay
Having
Area
Students
Excitement
Look
Coming
Go
Anyone
Forward
Technical
Four
Careers
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
Hari Kunzru
Life
Beautiful
Addicted
Secondhand
Unlikely
Books
Nelson
Some
Read
Because
Lord
Grandmother
Binding
Ever
Copy
Kept
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
Herbert Marcuse
Capitalism
Revolution
Stage
Unlikely
Highest
Most
Appears
Necessary
Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.
Hilary Mantel
People
Every
Worlds
Unlikely
Drawn
Writer
Between
Like
Different
Different Worlds
'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.
Hugh Grant
You
Eyes
Worlds
Unlikely
Respectable
Out
Kind
Clash
Guy
Point
Take
Poke
Hill
Does
Mob
Mickey
Blue
Blue Eyes
Maybe
Being
Much
Really
Fun
Englishman
British
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Hugh Mackay
Life
Guidance
People
Church
Unlikely
Indeed
Would
More
Institutions
Mistrust
Climate
Go
Yearn
Regard
Place
Meaningful
Fulfilling
Who
Many
Present
As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's seat. But this does not mean that China won't exploit that world for its own purposes.
Ivan Krastev
Change
World
Own
Transformation
Change The World
Assume
Dramatically
Unlikely
About
Purposes
Driver
Global
Does
China
Mean
Exploit
Should
Ever
Seat
Adaptation
And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.
James Wolcott
Book
Comedy
Moon
Strike
Unlikely
Triumph
Park
Parker
Mormon
Could
Thundering
Hotter
Ticket
Most
Bowl
Hammerstein
South
Matt
Rodgers
South Park
Improbable
Than
Stone
Central
Shot
Team
Creators
Season
Ever
Honestly, after five, six months, I thought it was unlikely I'd be here long: my characteristics seemed to go against everything Barcelona stood for.
Javier Mascherano
Thought
Long
Honestly
Everything
Unlikely
Months
Characteristics
Seemed
Go
Five
Stood
Six
After
Against
Barcelona
Here
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
Jeanette Winterson
Life
You
Yourself
Enough
Unlikely
Stay
Gives
Knocks
Sure
Hard
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
Jeff Goodell
Change
Risks
Words
Nation
Pulpit
President
President Obama
Unlikely
Collapse
Has-Been
Obama
Catastrophic
Since
Trade
Climate
Climate Change
Been
Bully
Legislation
Movement
Again
Inaction
Public
Cap
Realization
Much
Use
Less
Prepare
Ever
Utter
Funk
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