We want to know how likely, or relatively how likely, two different explanations are.

What matters is how likely or unlikely, relative to each other, the two explanations are.

A better educated girl was likely to be a better mother, less likely to die at birth, better informed on how to bring up her children, better fed and better prepared to feed them.

Namely, essentially an elimination of the relationship between how old you are and how likely you are to die in the next year or indeed, to get sick in the first place.

And the question is how do you get your brain into environments where these new networks are going to be more likely to form?

For instance, if you look at the odds on horses at a racetrack, they predict almost perfectly how likely a horse is to win.

Yes, today the European economy is not doing badly. But how long is this likely to last with the US falling into a deep slump?

China s real estate price bubble is often named as a likely catalyst for a crisis. But how such a downturn would unfold is far from certain.

The key questions for the world economy today, then, are how significant the growth slowdown will be, and how long it will last. With wise policy responses, the impact is likely to be relatively mild and short lived.

Indeed, its performance continues to astound me. Though it undoubtedly faces plenty of challenges, the key question is how likely they are to bring down the economy.

Not likely.

With so many political officials crafting crisis responses to solve local problems or to create local opportunities, how likely are they to agree on a unified international approach?

And the artist himself could also benefit from this sort of listing procedure by using it to estimate how many pots of paint he's likely to need in the future.

What does it look like if that's not the case? And how can we embrace that and actually come up with something that was actually more likely to sustain everybody?

This seems most likely.

The foreclosure relief plan is off to an even slower start, and is likely to run into numerous problems concerning how to rework delinquent mortgages without inducing a lot more delinquencies.

How do you make children not just be more likely to eat carrots and drink milk, but to get more pleasure from eating carrots and drinking milk to think they taste better?

They are also less likely to be self employed and half as likely as men to be employers.

But more likely is this.

It's likely that she'll succeed.

Unfortunately, there are two further and even more problematic aspects of uncertainty. These arise where we are unsure not just about how likely different outcomes are, but also about which outcomes are relevant.

First, how much conventional war fighting capability should the US military retain? The goal is to maintain enough to deter aggressors, but not so much that it detracts from other, more likely missions.

And the number we end up with that number which is a little bit less than one in 100 is to do with how likely one of those explanations is relative to the other.

Nonetheless, China s growing global financial role is not likely to change profoundly how existing institutions operate. Of course, as efforts like Jin s highlight the flaws in existing structures, they may help to inspire reform.

The Scotland Act of 2012 caps the region s deficit at 10 of its budget and limits how much the Scottish government can borrow. These issues are now likely to be reopened with further devolution.

But they're less likely to stick.

But they're less likely to stick.

It is likely to rain again.

It is likely to rain tomorrow.

It is likely to rain today.

It's likely to snow this evening.

He is likely to arrive soon.

He is not likely to succeed.

It's very likely to rain tomorrow.

It's likely to rain all weekend.

likely to complement home country production.

They are posh, they're wealthy, they're less likely to have outdoor jobs, they're less likely to do manual labor, they have better social support, they're less likely to smoke so for a whole host of fascinating, interlocking social, political and cultural reasons, they are less likely to have skin wrinkles.

You can't say to yourself, I'm as likely to win as anybody, because you're not as likely to win as Leroy.

The Korean people have a historical right to determine their peninsula s future arrangements, including unification should they so choose. How this increasingly likely process unfolds will have enormous political and security consequences for the region.

Is that likely, do you think, here?

John is likely to make a mistake.

This time Bob is likely to win.

He is likely to be late again.

He is likely to win the game.

It isn't likely that she will come.