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It is very unlikely that the genetics of homosexuality will ever devolve to a single factor in humans with such major effects as it has in Drosophila.
Jeffrey C. Hall
Will
Single
Unlikely
Factor
Major
Genetics
Effects
Very
Ever
Humans
Homosexuality
Actually, I never thought of me being president of Brazil. First of all, I'm not a politician. I never have been, and I think I'm a very unlikely person for this kind of job because of my frankness. I've never dealt with political parties. I have no connections with political parties. So, I don't think so.
Joaquim Barbosa
Me
Political
Job
Thought
First
Politician
Brazil
Think
President
Unlikely
Frankness
Kind
Never
Parties
First Of All
Because
Dealt
Been
Very
Political Parties
Person
Being
Connections
Actually
I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.
John Bright
Hope
Me
Women
Will
Unlikely
Seem
Mistaken
Because
Does
Question
Very
May
View
Granted
Suffrage
I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.
John Fusco
Unlikely
Eastern
Indians
Area
Up
Where
Grew
Place
Connecticut
Fascinated
In 1999, I found myself the unlikely leader of a community-based effort to protect what was arguably Colorado's most important brand, and one once thought to be untouchable: the 'Mile High' part of Denver's Mile High Stadium.
John Hickenlooper
Myself
Thought
Leader
Important
Unlikely
Once
High
Colorado
Arguably
Part
Most
Protect
Untouchable
Brand
Denver
Effort
Stadium
Mile
Community-Based
Found
I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
John Major
Will
Edge
Think
Unlikely
Extremely
Dropping
Off
Nations
Union
European
European Union
'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
John Prendergast
Citizen
Action
Unlikely
Brothers
About
Importance
Make
Make A Difference
Talks
How
Difference
Shows
Why
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.
Joseph Stiglitz
Good
Me
Made
Resource
Market
Unlikely
Respects
Recognized
Would
Insight
Clear
Like
Private
Provide
Efficient
Whenever
Information
Public
Public Good
Many
Many Respects
In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.
Keir Starmer
Unlikely
Force
Make
Without
Effective
Contribution
Any
Meaningful
View
Ground
Defeating
Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.
Lionel Shriver
Unlikely
Once
Criminality
Hook
Seem
Also
Makes
Always
Off
Reform
May
Being
Preordained
The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
Lucy Dacus
Life
Age
My Life
Beginning
Consider
Unlikely
Way
Circumstances
Introduced
Adopted
Shaped
Main
Songwriting
How
Led
Being
Asked
Early
Early Age
Fragile
We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.
Luke Scott
Good
Me
Gun
Others
Unlikely
Possibly
Security
Carrying
Admit
About
Only
Tactical
Could
Entry
Hostage
Highly
Come
Terrorists
Get
Personal
Where
Want
The Only Thing
Hold
Clubhouse
Poor
Us
Choices
Warrant
Hard
Belief
Suffer
Thing
Here
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
Lyall Watson
You
Challenge
Invent
Sense
Group
Living
Unlikely
Small
Small Group
Exist
Common
Common Sense
Elephants
Things
Belong
Credulity
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
Malala Yousafzai
Girl
Three
Unlikely
Range
Van
Seems
Fires
Any
Story
Them
Shots
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.
Margaret Geller
Home
Family
Library
Book
Internet
Poverty
Living
Unlikely
Possible
Significant
Able
Borrow
Computer
Take
Another
Access
Child
Afford
Expense
Public
Might
Public Library
Even
Level
Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection.
Mariella Frostrup
Together
Else
Unlikely
Kids
Maintain
Like
Glue
Left
Little
Companions
Connection
Even
Bond
It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
Mary Douglas
Will
Unlikely
Sectarian
Religions
More
Sure
Am
Get
Organized
While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries.
Mary Pilon
Government
Parents
Unlikely
Plenty
Risk
Football
Head
Football Games
Sport
Limit
Due
Refusing
Children
While
Games
Injuries
Ever
Play
Number
I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.
Michael Gove
Think
Unlikely
Revolutionary
Certainly
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.
Michael Ignatieff
Speak
Enemies
Free
Differences
Live
Resort
Unlikely
Reconcile
Temptation
Free Societies
Allow
Adversaries
Democratic
Democratic Societies
Without
Heard
Commerce
Which
Convert
Migration
Even
Inconceivable
Societies
Violence
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda
Happiness
Success
Best
Failure
You
Be Happy
Happy
Enough
Unlikely
Would
Find
True
True Enough
Truer
Very
Success Is
Next
Deeper
Thing
So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.
Neil Finn
Heroes
Strangers
Think
Unlikely
Rather
More
Exciting
Attracted
Sort
Because
Than
Being
Much
Really
Working
Now
Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.
Peter Sis
Looking
Everyone
Unlikely
Find
Finding
Window
Windows
Talent
She
Came
His
Just
Artists
Famous
Places
Across
Designer
'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
Rachel Joyce
Success
Beautiful
Book
Lie
Mother
Wife
First
Country
Beneath
Harold
Everything
Unlikely
Response
About
Fact
Perfect
Outside
Beautiful Country
House
Beautiful Wife
Looks
Partly
Pilgrimage
Shock
Being
Where
In Fact
Fry
Should
Deep
If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.
Rebecca Hall
Think
Too
Unlikely
Highly
Got
Get
Quit
Going
Just
Famous
Really
Acting
Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Freedom
Internet
Will
Unlikely
India
Web
About
Percent
Only
Soon
Making
Issue
Anytime
Decisive
Uses
Population
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