(a.) Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
(3) Their behavior may be rationalized by assuming that at low concentrations they bind to the primary binding site making rebinding of once dissociated [3H]QNB molecules improbable (competitive mechanism), whereas at high concentrations they also act on a secondary (allosteric) binding site stabilizing the [3H]QNB receptor complexes by slowing their off-kinetics.
(4) As for the speaker in parliament Thura Shwe Mann, a former general, he has formed an improbable alliance with Aung San Suu Kyi, on the assumption that she might help him thwart the plans of his former cronies.
(5) He is helped by constituency boundaries that skew the pitch in Labour’s favour, but even then the leap required looks improbable.
(6) It is improbable that the platform-pendulum controversy is due to differences in the amount of PS deprivation or the other sleep parameters measured here.
(7) Comparison of the upstream regions of the SAA genes with those of the rat fibrinogen genes, whose expression is also induced by inflammation, reveals sequences common to all six genes which are very improbable on a random basis.
(8) No positive reactions occurred in either of the tests so that phototoxic effects can be excluded and a photoallergic potential is improbable.
(9) It said those concerned were "not shouting it from the rooftops" but "sheltering their holdings behind increasingly improbably names".
(10) This finding in conjunction with the observation that the generation of (Phe, G)- and Pro--L-specific responses were associated in individual recipients injected with limiting inocula of thymocytes indicated that a single population of thymocytes was stimulated by (Phe,G)-Pro--L. Therefore, it is improbable that the thymic population of immunocompetent cells contributes to expression of these genetically controlled defects.
(11) (viii) It is highly improbable that within the last few years two viruses (HIV-1 and HIV-2) that are only 40% sequence-related would have evolved that could both cause the newly defined syndrome AIDS.
(12) The chromosome abnormalities were so severe that it is highly improbable that mitosis led to successful nuclear multiplication within a given syncytium.
(13) The Argentinian's equaliser was also hit from an improbable angle but it was a much more presentable chance than his first-half efforts – City's passing move had been direct, featuring two consecutive forward passes with Nasri playing a wonderful assist, and City had cut through the Chelsea defence swiftly.
(14) Jackson, too, wears black shoes and black clothes, and, improbably for his age, has mostly black hair.
(15) They could have scored more had they needed to but began to play overambitious passes and attempt improbable shots.
(16) So it didn't matter how unlike Miliband Wallace was, as long as they shared the attribute of seeming an improbable sort to be prime minister.
(17) Its perception of the improbability of living states is at least partially an artifact of closed system thinking.
(18) Typical arrangements of the EEG-context which make improbable an assumption of a structural lesion can be demonstrated for certain anterior-left as well as posterior-right localized patterns.
(19) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(20) It therefore seems improbable that a definitive decision concerning the use of one or another of these agents can be made.
Remote
Definition:
(superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
(superl.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
(superl.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
(superl.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
(superl.) Separate; abstracted.
(superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
(superl.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
(superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(2) Because such a possibility seems so remote as to be comic.
(3) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
(4) Regions of interest representing the angioma, perifocal and remote tissues, contralateral mirror regions, and standard brain regions were analyzed.
(5) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
(6) In remote terms (after four months) further improvement of visual functions was recorded, visual acuity increased by 0.3-0.6 in 8 of 15 patients.
(7) All this has been going on while 150 remote communities in Western Australia face the possibility of closure, thanks to Tony Abbott’s “lifestyle choices” mentality.
(8) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(9) Clinical assessment does not accurately assess the 'remote' neuromuscular effects of cancer on the motor unit.
(10) Patients were divided into two groups on the basis of the absence (Group I) or presence (Group II) of obstructive disease in a major coronary artery supplying myocardium remote from the prior myocardial infarction.
(11) Cancer can produce a variety of effects on the nervous system either by direct compression or invasion, or remotely by some as yet unknown metabolic, toxic, viral or immunologic effect on the nervous system.
(12) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(13) In the present study, an attempt was made to isolate and identify pathogenic bacteria, fungi and parasites from the housefly Musca domestica collected in the surgical ward of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital and also in a remote residential area located 5 km from the hospital.
(14) In three patients false-positive uptake of the radiotracer was observed; two had benign disease and one had a malignant tumour remote from the scan abnormality.
(15) However, we believe these alternative possibilities to be remote.
(16) There was essentially complete correlation between HI, N, and either IgM (indicating recent infections) or IgG (indicating more remote infections) antibody.
(17) The detection of the organism at this site remote from the gastroduodenal environment suggests the organism may be transmitted by the orofaecal route.
(18) Consistent with our anatomical findings, unilateral microinfusion of kainic acid in or near the pedunculopontine nucleus increased the firing rate of dopaminergic neurons situated remotely in the ipsilateral substantia nigra.
(19) In conclusion, management of unexpected SDT during OPU include the following therapeutic goals: (1) complete eradication of the tumor to eliminate the remote possibility of malignancy and recurrence; (2) performance of adequate peritoneal lavage to prevent chemical peritonitis; (3) conservation of the maximum amount of functional ovarian tissue; and (4) exclusion of the possibility of dermoid cyst in the contralateral ovary.
(20) Little evidence was found for projections from other, more remote, brain sites.