What's the difference between believability and likeliness?

Believability


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
  • (3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (4) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
  • (5) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
  • (6) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
  • (7) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (8) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
  • (9) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
  • (10) Batson believes there is a “mood” that needs to be seized upon.
  • (11) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (12) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
  • (13) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (14) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (15) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
  • (16) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
  • (17) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
  • (18) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
  • (19) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (20) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.

Likeliness


Definition:

  • (n.) Likelihood; probability.
  • (n.) Suitableness; agreeableness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
  • (2) The more the Scots push for a referendum on independence, the likelier it is they will continue to lose influence at Westminster.
  • (3) Mourinho is likelier to face another fine rather than a ban given off-field offences generally prompt off-field sanctions.
  • (4) Based on these studies the likeliness of a role for quinolinic acid in the etiology of HD is evaluated.
  • (5) Jermain Defoe would be a valuable addition in attack but QPR seems a likelier destination for the former Tottenham striker, so Leicester are looking at.
  • (6) This seemed all the likelier minutes later when John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor , wandered in and took a seat on the other side of Eagle.
  • (7) Nor does the Prism article specifically refer to the finding that drones are 10 times likelier to kill civilians than manned aircraft are.
  • (8) The likelier outcome is that a victorious Putin would have many friends in Europe, and that the sanctions on Russia would be allowed to lapse.
  • (9) With Mata having a poor game and Rooney constantly misplacing or mistiming his passes, United were becoming becalmed in midfield in the late summer sunshine, and Adnan Januzaj seemed a likelier choice to inject more urgency and invention.
  • (10) In the 'private' sector, 69 percent of the services were delivered by GPs and 23 percent by psychiatrists were more likely to have had 'public' sector activity than were those seen only by GPs; also once in the 'public' sector, they were likelier to have had in patient as well as outpatient treatment.
  • (11) They fought back from a dreadful start to boss the second half of the first half, equalise early in the second period and look the likelier team to win until Kane completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot and Jeff Schlupp put through his own goal after Kasper Schmeichel had blocked from Christian Eriksen.
  • (12) Great Barrier Reef bleaching made 175 times likelier by human-caused climate change, say scientists Read more Underlying the finding that reefs will continue to survive is the assumption that agreements made at Paris to keep global warming to “well below 2C” are successful.
  • (13) For example, a female leader in danger is much likelier to face pressure from her family, or even from male colleagues, to withdraw from activism.
  • (14) Before the programme, only 6.5% of girls reported being self-employed; afterwards, they were 32% likelier to be working.
  • (15) My body needs to shut down and heal up.” It seems as if a loan spell at a Premier League club, and a permanent return to England in January, is likelier than another season in Toronto.
  • (16) Women in Ghana are 70 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in Britain, and children are 13 times likelier to die before the age of five.
  • (17) The younger the age at first birth, the likelier that the first marriage will dissolve.
  • (18) New data has revealed unsafe levels of radiation outside the 12-mile exclusion zone, increasing the likeliness that entire towns will remain unfit for habitation.
  • (19) The likeliness of formation of a hydantoin-related compound in the aniline-adulterated oil is evidenced and its role as possible toxic agent in TOS is proposed.
  • (20) Attention is paid to the likeliness of isolating aberant strains of S. gallinarum with deviations from the morphology of colonies and their antigenic and biochemical characteristic typical of the species.

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