In the course of the summer, the prospect of a perilous fall has become only more likely.

Do you consider a lifting of the arms embargo placed on Libya likely in the near future?

It appeared overwhelmingly likely that the presidential vote count would similarly show Odinga beating Kibaki by a wide margin.

China may avoid a hard landing, but a bumpy and rough one appears likely.

Official negotiations are removed from reality. According to the latest science, the current proposals under negotiation will result in warming of more than 4 C during this century double the 2 C maximum endorsed by the G 8 and other leaders.

But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.

The US military intervention touches all of R2P s bases of legality, legitimacy, and likely effectiveness in meeting its immediate objectives.

The physicians pronounced the cause of death as cholera, but it is likely he died from a different gastrointestinal disease.

Limited cross border operations are increasingly likely. A war between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds is not.

It sometimes seems that the only eurozone leader who is willing to face the likely prospect of future debt restructuring is German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In China, a hard economic landing looks increasingly likely as the investment bubble deflates and net exports shrink.

That sad fate is looking more and more likely, and the Olympic year already has been soured by the Chinese government s efforts to suppress resistance to it.

Before January, this sequence of events was quite likely, but the ECB s bond buying program put a firebreak at each point of the contagion process.

More likely would be an IMF organized restructuring of the existing debt, swapping new bonds with lower principal and interest for existing bonds.

A number of Asian countries have already started building mutually beneficial security cooperation on a bilateral basis, thereby laying the groundwork for a potential web of interlocking strategic partnerships.

Although cyber rights activists such as Yaman Akdeniz and Kerem Altıparmak are pushing to lift the bans via legal channels, another wave of censorship seems more likely.

For starters, taking the IMF s preferred creditor status at face value, an IMF loan would entail substituting its non defaultable debt for defaultable debt with private bondholders, because the Fund s money is used primarily to service outstanding bonds.

Colombia Oscura made a call on its Twitter feed to invest more on sport and less on war, a prospect that seems more likely as the country enters a new era of peace.

One reason is that the expanding development and use of new information technology, notably cell phones and the Internet, shrinks the world and makes competition from abroad more plausible.

Phylogeny and systematics Fossil record A 2007 study based on DNA of living beetles and maps of likely beetle evolution indicated beetles may have originated during the Lower Permian, up to 299 million years ago.

Through the EGF, part of the cost of helping displaced textile workers would be borne by all EU countries, thereby making wider trade liberalization a more likely prospect.

Global risk aversion has also increased, as the option of further extend and pretend or delay and pray on Greece is becoming less desirable, and the specter of a disorderly workout is becoming more likely.

Even if the prospect or threat of the use of force among states has become less probable, it will retain a high impact, and it is just such situations that lead rational actors to purchase expensive insurance.

Is it any wonder that China is perceived as an increasingly credible model for much of the developing world, while the US is now viewed as a symbol of hypocrisy and double standards?

I sat down one day and wrote two versions of my own obituary, the one that I wanted, a life of adventure, and the one that I was actually heading for which was a nice, normal, pleasant life, but it wasn't where I wanted to be by the end of my life.